We hope you’re ready for an amazing Startup Weekend Scramble at #HiLab! Please be on-site by 5:30 pm. We plan to kick-off with dinner and mingling promptly.
This handy info will help you sort out your travels to the i-lab:
Shuttles
Harvard shuttles run to and from the Cambridge campus to and from the i-lab during these times:
Friday
4pm-7:30pm
11:30pm-2am
Saturday
7am-9am
10pm-1am
Sunday
8-10am
6pm-8pm
The Allston Campus Express route is open to anyone and stops around Harvard Yard, near Lamont Library, and the College houses. Once the shuttles are running, they should be trackable on http://harvard.transloc.com.
MIT students can take the Red Line to Harvard Square, and jump on a shuttle, or take the 66 or 86 bus, and get off at Harvard Stadium and walk over.
Driving/Parking:
Parking in the west lot is $1 hour (6 hour limit). Parking in the HBS lot is $13 a day. You can find more info about parking at the i-lab here
Please contact Stephen (stephen[at]startupscramble.com) and Neal (doyle[at]hbs.edu) with questions!
Max capacity! Over 140 students are focusing their startup mojo in advance of this weekend’s Harvard Innovation Lab Startup Weekend Scramble.
Prepare to blur the lines of real-world experience and classroom education in an epic 48 hours of pitching, community building, rapid prototyping, and demo’ing alongside fellow students and a line-up of Boston’s most hands-on startup mentors.
Several students (undergrads and grads) have inquired as to whether the event is exclusively for tech startups. The answer is, no. You are highly encouraged to experiment with new ways to rapidly organize/prototype more traditional social ventures utilizing methods of “lean startup” and “customer development.” It’s a stellar opportunity for non-techies to show just how far they can push ideas into action. We’ve had student teams demo no-tech startups.
Here’s another quick tip: Try to get a solid night’s rest on Thursday. The pace is frenetic and the extra reserve will pay off. We’ll cover more best-practices in the kick-off presentation, so be sure to arrive Friday fashionably on time.
The info below will help you keep your weekend in check:
YOUR STUDENT ID IS REQUIRED TO CHECK INTO THE LAB
Twitter: #HiLab @innovationlab @startupweekend @startupscramble
Transportation: Shuttles will run extra hours to accommodate student travel to and from the HiLab facility over the weekend. Updated hours will be posted tomorrow.
Address:
The Harvard Innovation Lab (i-Lab)
125 Western Ave
Boston, MA 02163
Agenda*
Friday:
5:00pm – Doors open – Mingle @ #HiLab
6:15pm – Dinner & kickoff!
6:30pm – Speakers – Tom Eisenmann (HBS Professor of Startup) & Andy Ory (Founder, Acme Packets)
7:30pm – Pitch breakers
8:00pm – Pitches begin (60 seconds per person)
9:30pm – Mingle and voting
10:00pm – Team forming & evening build session
1:00am – Roll out
Saturday:
9:30am – Arrive & breakfast served
10:00am – Team check-in & venture modeling skill-build session
11:00am – Team work session
1:00pm – Lunch
1:30pm – Team work session w/ mentors (arriving ~2pm)
6:00pm – Dinner & “Dirty Pitch”
8:00pm – Work session
1:00 am – Roll out
Sunday:
9:30am – Doors open & team check-in
11:00am – Team work & Brunch
1:00pm – Gut check. Begin team prep for Final Pitch w/ mentors (arriving ~1pm)
4:00pm – “LINNER” & FINAL DEMO/PITCH
6:00pm – Judging & wrap-up
*Please use the agenda as a general guide with the understanding that certain items may change.
