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The judging criteria for Startup Weekend is 3 parts: Business Model, Customer Validation, Execution: http://www.techstars.com/content/community/startup-weekend-

The judging criteria for Startup Weekend is 3 parts: Business Model, Customer Validation, Execution: http://www.techstars.com/content/community/startup-weekend-judging-criteria/ http://www.techstars.com/content/community/startup-weekend-j... If your mocks were sufficient for gathering user feedback, that may be okay. I've certainly seen groups with no written software place in the top 3, off of designer mocks alone.

tedmiston 10y ago
Another point on judging criteria is that it varies widely based on who your judges are too. Those categories are pretty broad with plenty of room for interpretation intentionally. If the judging panel is less technical, you'll have to sell your idea differently. I've seen cool tech hackathon projects fail because of bad presentations, either because they're ineffective or they just didn't practice. It's kind of less than ideal that you're judged for the whole weekend based on how well you can sell in a 2-minute pitch, but then again it's not all that different from the real startup world.