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Living Nest impresses at Startup Weekend Brunei

Written by Rano Iskandar on . Posted in lifestyle, Business

 

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Javed Ahmad, CEO of Darussalam Enterprise, mingling with the participants of the Startup Weekend Brunei last Sunday
 

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The participants during the Startup Weekend Brunei
 

Now, how I wish we can have more of this in Brunei.. I’ve attended many sessions in terms of grooming presenters and pitchers when it comes to presenting business ideas. It’s never an easy feat if you are new but once you get the hang of it or master it, you will enjoy it even more.

The event known as Startup Weekend Brunei was organised by young, vibrant bunch from the Creative Core BN and the event was held at the Progresif Headquarters Event Hall. Basically Startup Weekend is a 54-hour entrepreneur workshop and the goal is to create an an environment where passionate people can come together and have an experiential education on all things startup from networking, collaborating and exposing potentials to see real results from idea to action.

Sometimes I wish I can still be part of it as my mind is still boiling with ideas and I also realised how I love the business side of things and always open to opportunities if given. Hence this platform given by Startup Weekend is an excellent platform and only given in a space of 3 days in translating your ideas into a business pitch.

The responses were pretty good as they had commendable sign ups for the said event. Last Sunday was the final day of the 54-hour entrepreneur week where six teams had to deliver their ideas and its lucrativeness to entice the judges to buy their ideas.

The panel of 3 judges were Radi El-Fassed the Head of Product Development Progresif Cellular Sdn Bhd, Rahimah Yussof thr Co-Manager and WTM Lead, Google Developer Group Brunei and lastly Hamdi Matussin (NJ) Creative Director, Mixmediaworx.

The winner of the Startup Weekend Brunei was team Living Nest. They were awarded with a return flight to Kuala Lumpur and also attend the ASEAN Rice Bowl Startup Awards.

Second place went to team Do Good which was my favourite of the lot while team Nakhoda came third place.

I love this see more of this and I hope other stakeholders can take note on conducting a successful event like how the Creative Core BN has done for the Startup Weekend Brunei. This is also a good awareness program to urge the youth that entrepreneurship shouldn’t be taken lightly or even as a last resort.

The inaugural weekend long workshop was made possible by support mainly from Progresif Cellular, Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam and Darussalam Enterprise. Keep up the good work.

 

 

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I was impressed with Team Do Good
 

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Amy Wong showing their model of their app “Do Good”
 

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The winner of the Startup Weekend Brunei – Team Living Nest
 

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Another young entrepreneur showcasing their product
 

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A toastmasters member, Jidun Dollah, sharing about booking property online
 

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Ideas and more ideas
 

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The judges -Radi El-Fassed the Head of Product Development Progresif Cellular Sdn Bhd,Hamdi Matussin (NJ) Creative Director, Mixmediaworx and Rahimah Yussof thr Co-Manager
 

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Team Nakhoda came third
 

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