Breakthrough Weekend
What can you build in 54 hours?
Join highly innovative and motivated people who want to turn an idea into a startup.
Pitch your idea, form a team and start a business in only 54 hours. Make new friends, find future collaborators, and enjoy free food, drinks and snacks throughout the weekend.
Breakthrough Weekend is led by The Startup Collaborative and hosted by the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Franchising. At this event, you will learn the first steps in starting a business and gain and understanding of what it will take to navigate the road ahead.
Breakthrough Weekend 2018
This event is sponsored by Cox for Business and brought to you by The Startup Collaborative and UNO Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Franchising.
For more information about this event, email Levi Cermak: lcermak7@unomaha.edu
Teams working in their "cubicles"
Ly Phan, a 2018 Breakthrough Weekend participant had the following to say:
"I'm really grateful that I had a chance to attend Breakthrough Weekend. Not only did I make many great friends, but also learned a lot about starting a business. Breakthrough Weekend gave me the confidence to pitch my own idea, which I did at the Big Idea! Pitch Competition, and won!"
Team Holler Scholar in action, working on their business!
Order of Events:
FRIDAY
5:30 PM: Doors Open // Check-In // Networking
6:30 PM: Kickoff and welcome from facilitators, hosts
7:00 PM: CEOs pitch concepts, share any pre-work or validation thus far
7:30 PM: Team formation // for pre-work teams: review of all LEVEL 1 and LEVEL 2 prework, including transcripts from customer discovery interviews and Lean Canvas
8:30 - 9:30 PM: Pre-validation workshop
SATURDAY
9:00 AM: Breakfast and All-Hands Review
9:30 AM: Concept messaging group workshop
11:00 AM: 1x1s with directors, mentors // work time
12:00 PM: Lunch // MVP workshop // Free time for teams that finish early (Aksarben)
3:00 PM: Ice cream and mentor review
5:00 PM: Deadline to distribute prototype survey (final customer discovery loop)
6:00 PM: Dinner and All-Hands Reviews
7:00 PM: Reception at Liv Lounge
SUNDAY
9:00 AM: Brunch and all-hands review
10:00 AM: Final prep // 1x1s with mentors
12:00 PM: ALL-HANDS PITCH REVIEW
2:00 PM: PITCH SHOWCASE