[/x_video_embed] [x_video_embed type= »16:9″ no_container= »true »][/x_video_embed] And then, the marathon really began… customer development, refinement of the project, desires to pivot to another project, re-focusing the idea… and developing the business model until late Saturday night. Sunday was then mostly dedicated to the pitches… even though many only started last minute to practice the pitch (or even didn’t trained at all!). Time was running fast: teams had to be ready at 16:30, to present to the public and to a jury comprised of entrepreneurs/investors: Nicolas Berg, Mike Schwede, Vincent Tresno, Urs Guggenbühl, Felix Kunz and Pierre-Alain Schnegg. Here are the seven startup projects which were presented:

1. BeerNation: delivering beer discovery packages from local breweries
2. Fashion Hunters: connecting thousands of young designers with fashionista
3. SmartWrist: software platform connecting every access card on a single chip (based on NFC technology)
4. IGO Reminder: Get of the sofa! Never miss again the game of your nephew and be reminded at the right time, with the right reminder
5. Reboot your life: providing Re-bootcamps and ongoing support to overly stressed managers and executives to take back control of their life
6. KOMMUNIKON: connecting every person with an iconic language – forget languages, use icons!
7. Synopses: reducing the administrative work overload of doctors and helping them to provide higher healthcare services

After a 30 minutes discussion, the jury decided to reward the following 3 projects:

1. Synopses (grand winner of first Startup Weekend Biel/Bienne)
2. BeerNation
3. Fashion Hunters

That’s for the winners. But IMHO, everyone won during this weekend. Every participant went back home with a lot of learnings. Tired, but with a lot of confidence that this weekend will have accelerated the maturation process of her/his own project. And my « best » reward was from Stéphanie (Reboot your life), who told me: « Thank you so much for having encouraged and reminded me so often to participate to Startup Weekend. This experience was so cool! ». The place we had (INNOCAMPUS) is definitely a great place for such events… and we are now also working on organizing a more geeky event in Fall: a hackathon… And hereafter, you can discover StartupWeekend Biel/Bienne with some pictures!   ]]>