AIS Startup Weekend Bangkok Begins with a bang – 96 pitches on Friday night!

Dec 17, 2011 Uncategorized 0 comments

img_0009What a crazy crowd @ #SWBKK!

We had 96 pitches last night, which we believe to be a record for for Startup Weekends in Southeast Asia. This is out of 120 participants – an 80% pitch rate. Fantastic!

Out of those 96 pitches, we chose the 17 teams with the most votes. As of Saturday morning the teams are as follows:

Location Based MMORPG
Facebook Classics
Tvteer (TV twitter)
Flowz
Cloud Post-it
Indie Music
Today mobile payment platform
Customer Loyalty Programme
Like.me
Shop Spot
Carpool
Taxi Caller App
Video for Homework
Bangkok Shout
Corruption Prevention System
Ticket-pro

For those who want to take a look at Darren’s slides, get the link here:
http://t.co/fNokW4Of

Good luck to everyone! Follow us on twitter at @jfdiasia @hughmason @mengwong @erinfrey with the hashtag #swbkk for updates, including some video and photo updates.

Again, thanks again to AIS for the fantastic support to make this event possible. We also want to thank all of the mentors who have stopped by to help out the teams.

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