Friday 6 November 2015
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Sixty seconds to pitch, 54 hours to make it happen There are only seven more sleeps before Tauranga Startup Weekend begins on Friday, November 13 at Basestation in Durham Street. It’s your best opportunity to get a business idea off the ground this side of Christmas.
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Starts Friday 5.30 13 NOV Ends Sunday 9.00 15 NOV Writers Designers Marketers Website developers 15 smart business mentors 4 Judges 20 Crew All in one place, for just one weekend to help you!
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On Friday evening, you’ll have 60 seconds, your voice, and your passion to get your idea across. No slides, no props – just a microphone and a smile. Veteran participants in Startup Weekend events recommend you use the ‘pitch-fire’ format to make sure your idea gets the attention it deserves. Who are you and what is your story? (five to 10 seconds). What is the problem your product solves? (five to 10 seconds). Explain how the product might work to solve the problem (10 to 20 seconds). Then, and most importantly, tell participants who you need on your team to build it over the next 54 hours (a developer, marketing, designer?) ( five to 10 seconds). Finally, give your startup a name. After pitches, you will have time to mingle – your time to start recruiting others interested in your idea. If you did not pitch, or if you are having trouble finding others to join your team, you can use this time to seek out those who pitched other ideas you found interesting. A handful of tickets to take part in the event are available at tgasw.eventbrite.com and if you’d like to
hear one minute pitches on Friday or tbe present at the grand finale ‘demo night’ to see what got worked on over the weekend you can also book your seat.
Startup Weekend national facilitator Alan Froggatt.
Katikati’s art centre a born survivor There were times when Katikati Craft and Mural Centre came close to folding. Either it wasn’t making any money or not making enough money.
shop died and it has been sold. “We were hoping for a best case scenario whereby the new owners would want to retain us as sitting tenants. But they are a local business who want to move in,” says Di Logan, a founding member of the Centre. But the Katikati Craft and It’s suffered yet another blow Mural Centre is a born survivor. and it’s being forced from its main It is going to relocate to the street premises. The owner of the Talisman Centre in Talisman Drive, just one street back from its present Main Street premises. “They are new premises – very modern and very nice.” The Centre started in 1991 to support the mural industry in the town. They sold mural merchandise, key rings, calendars, tea towels and souvenirs. Katikati C It was also a place r a ft a n d M Centre me where people could mbers Di ural Log Barbara W come to discuss and olfenden, an, Max and Wend learn about the murals. y Rigg. “Then at the suggestion of a local artist Joan Clark we brought on board locals artists and
crafts people. It became a place for them to showcase and sell their work,” says Di. It worked well for the owner of the building, who got some rent for an empty old shop and local artists and crafts people had an outlet for their work. It hasn’t been a great commercial venture. “But it’s incredible that a shop run by volunteers and locals crafts has sustained itself for so long. But yes, we will be carrying on,” says Di. “We can’t have a town filled with so many wonderfully talented artists and crafts people without somewhere for them to show and sell their work.” And so, the Katikaki Craft and Mural Centre vacated their main street location last week. “Locals keep coming in and saying you can’t close, you can’t leave us.” And they’re not worried about moving the business off the main drag. A new access way will give main street pedestrian traffic direct passage to the Talisman Centre. While it has never been lucrative, the Centre has always pulled through. And again it looks set to carry the flag for local creatives.