What is BootUpCamp?
BootUpCamp is a free intensive entrepreneurship workshop where participants will go from nothing to a fully operational web business in two weeks. The structured program includes professional workshops and presentations from inductry experts, entry to a pitching competition, introductions to many industry events and key people, an angel investor panel, a VC Panel/Lunch and a big Launch event and more...
Is this for you?
We are looking for bright, energetic people with a love of the web and a desire to build something awesome. We still have a few spots left, so if this sounds like you, send in your application for this free program: Apply Now!
Participants apply as individuals and work in teams of two to four. You don't need to have an idea of what you want to build, teams will brainstorm ideas on the first day.
Each day the teams are given a deadline to work towards. These deadlines are things like "be ready to demonstrate your product by 6pm" or "have a press release and list of journalists to send it to by noon."
At the end of the two weeks you will:
- have experienced the thrill of starting a business without having to quit your job/drop out of school
- own a share of the business you have built
- have met and learned from some of the best entrepreneurial minds in Australia
- have made some good decisions and some bad ones; learned from them and moved on
- have worked hard and had a lot of fun
See what past participants have said about previous events
Who are the organizers, what have they done?
The hosts of BootUpCamp are Bart Jellema, Kim Chen and Brian Menzies.
Bart Jellema
Bart Jellema is the co-founder Tjoos coupon shopping website based in Sydney and serving customers all over the world. He has also been the host of the first 3 StartupCamp's in Australia and the instigator of Startup Australia Wiki. Bart has been coding since he was 6 years old (but it's almost done).
Twitter: @tjoosdude
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bart.jellema
Blog: http://blog.bartjellema.com
Websites: http://www.tjoos.com/ http://www.startup-australia.org/
Preferred coding platforms: Windows - C#, classic asp, MSSQL, Delphi, Javascript, Turbo Pascal, GW-BASIC
Brian Menzies
Brian Menzies participated in (TrafficHawk.com.au and GiveDo.com) and helped organize the first two StartUp Camps in Sydney. Brian recently moved to Sydney from California where he founded and ran Factor R a sales consulting business. Originally a programmer, Brian received an MBA from Kellogg in 1998 with a major in Entrepreneurship and worked for many years as an IT and strategy consultant .
Kim Chen
Kim Chen is the other co-founder of both Tjoos, and StartupCamp. Before moving to Australia Kim worked at Mckinsey & Co and Oracle in Silicon Valley. Kim is an alum of Stanford University where, amongst other things she was awarded a Mayfield fellowship (entrepreneurial internship).
What a typical day might look like?
Arrive in for 9am all hands meeting to quickly review the progress and achievements from the previous day. A 20 minute seminar lead by an expert on the topic of today's focus (for example how to make a sales presentation). Then you and your team split up the tasks for the day and get to work. As you work on your tasks you may seek help from the organizers, experts or people from other teams. In the afternoon/night the teams will come back together again to present their work and share ideas.