Akzara: the Winner of Startup Weekend Surabaya

Startup weekend Surabaya has been held for three days 21-23 October 2011 at Ciputra University, Surabaya, UC Town Citraland, Surabaya.

Startup Weekend is an event in which developers, designers, marketers, product managers, entrepreneur enthusiasts and talented persons in any field gather, share ideas, and then make team to build products and launch the startup in the weekend. This event was directed by Startup Weekend NPO team—Kauffman Foundation USA and experts from Indonesia.

The first day was Friday October 21st, 2011. It is the “Ideas Pitching” session in which participants should explain the best idea to make other participants interested to execute the idea.

The second day, as cited from BrunchProject.com is the “Grouping” session. On that day, 5 best ideas from 5 teams were ready to introduce to public. Those 5 best ideas are:

• Paper Save Team: An online platform to make students and lecturers able to cooperate to help the students finish their thesis writing.
• Konselor Karir Team: A platform that provides information on carrier tips such as personal branding, CV writing, interview, and so on. It can be said that it is a portal.
• Akzara Team: An education game for iOS platform that can be run on iPad. This game is for toddlers. It has a special reporting system for parents so that parents can know what their children do and they can also know their children’s development.
• Winnie Tjahjana and friends : The idea of this team is to make a system which enable currency of a service in a form of time.
• Ridho and friends: The idea of this team is to make Virtual Private Sever concept which can give bridging solution between budget financial, resource system and users’ level.

Cited from Bisnis.com, Nico Budianto, Founder of Indonesia Technopreneur Community said that the last day on Sunday were the prototype demo from the participants and valuable feedback from panelists, facilitators, and experts. He also added that Azkara team is the winner of Startup Weekend Surabaya for some reasons such as the originality of their business idea and it also contains education through a game for toddlers (around 2 years old).

(Photo: Enita Robentrop)