This readme aims at facilitating organizing Startup Contests at 42.
Sartup contest are made to help people with startup ambitions get to the next level. At the end of the contest, they'll have access to investors, mentorship, and more. For 42entrepreneurs it's also an acquisition channel to spot startups that may not come to the Side Project Club.
A selection phase, with up to 80 startups applying (our record). We take a full week to let everyone pich their startup. We select up to 15 startup after that, that will go to final phase. We contact alumnis and organize workshops and office hours to coach the startups before the final. The first startups win prizes. We try to provide value to everyone that participated (once we organized a visit of Station F with Xavier Niel with everyone for example).
- Advertise about the contest in 42 with flyers, @channels, etc.
- Prepare a doodle of pitch sessions for week 2.
- Prepare the pitch criterias on which the score will be based.
- Give 10 minutes per person, 4 min pitches, 4 min questions, and 2 min for debatting on the score of the pitch.
- Contact the alumnis on this week and match them with a startup they'll be interested in coaching.
- Ask for Jurys for week 4. Every jury should come with a prize he'll give to the startup of his choice (until here it was incubations @ Station F, mentorships, etc.)
- Send a mail to the ones selected, and a very encouraging mail to the ones not selected (advise them to come to the Side Project Club)
- Introduce the coach with the startup by email and let them organize the timing in the week, or ask for availabilities to the coaches, and create a doodle where the startups will "subscribe" to the coaching session. First arrived, first served.
- Be sure that the startups answer to the coaches, they took time for them.
- Book the amphi with administration for week 4
- Ask to 30_1 for live streaming of the event on 42Entrepreneurs facebook page.
- Send an order of pitch beforehand, the startups will prepare when the startup just before them is pitching.
- Send mail to everyone, advise them to use pdf as slides.
- Be sure that the Jurys are on time.
- 10 min pitches, 10 min questions of the jury.
- Let the jury decide for 15 min, after all pitches were done.
- Announce the winners, advise to the ones who didn't win anything to come to the Side Project Club.
- Follow through and ask to the startups what they have become, especialy the ones who won a prize. Get to know if they could usefully get advantage of the prize they won.
To fill... (emails, etc. can be found on the Google Drive)