Everybody is a winner at Startup Weekend Toronto
The 3rd Floor of the Burroughes Building still echoes the cheers and voices of the great talented people who got together for the Startup Weekend Toronto.
Over the weekend, teams worked day and night, and brought to life 20 new startup ideas meant to change the world. Although there can only be one first place (congrats to the HeroBox team!), we wanted to help and make everybody a big winner.
We set shop Saturday morning and coached teams on getting real users with Enthuzr viral singup forms, as soon as they had their landing pages live. By Saturday afternoon, tweets and Facebook posts started to flow and user numbers started growing steady. "Dude, it works!" we heard from one of the teams.
Sunday morning we pushed them further. As soon as we made the Flying Start Challenge leaderboard live, things started to heat up, with Say Hello, Pictagram and StockFridge leading the pack. In only 24 hours, they got over 100 users each and quite some buzz online. The race was close and at the final count standings looked like this:
So, congratulations to all teams who got into our Challenge! You all have now a bunch of engaged users who want to test your apps, and you are just getting started!
And last but not least, many thanks to Chris Eben of The Working Group for such a great event and his support for our startup!
