Startup Weekend Eugene aims to jumpstart businesses


The third annual Weekend will bring together designers, developers and innovators in an effort to create new companies.

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The third annual Weekend will bring together designers, developers and innovators in an effort to create new companies.

The weekend starts with entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs pitching a product or business idea. Attendees at the event then vote on each proposal and teams are formed to take the most popular proposals from idea stage to a working model for a new business that is ready to hit the ground running.

On the final day of the event, a panel of judges selects the winners. This year’s judges are: John Helmick, CEO of Gorilla Capital; Sabrina Parson, CEO of Palo Alto Software, and Jeff Tunnell, who co-founded the Dynamix computer game studio in Eugene in 1984.

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