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Follow on Google News | Kidpreneurs Make Money Out of Thin Air In A Weekend!Startup Weekend continues to inspire Gold Coast Entrepreneurs and grow the local startup community.
By: Silicon Lakes Winners, Ambleabout.co, in a single weekend created an app which scrapes freely available information from the web and connects it with Google Maps to create short walking tours defined by the user's interests. The team have won a range of prizes including mentoring, legal consulting, and private meetings with local investors to help them scale and grow their new startup. Event organiser, Greg Burnett states, "It was great to see a number of school-age Entrepreneurs take part in this latest event, with equal runners-up being SketchEzy, founded by 10 year old Rhys Burnett, and Jogga-Dog, founded by 12 year old Kerenza Edwards". "The great benefit of Startup Weekend is that it involves experiential learning, no talk, all action" said Mr. Burnett. Several Teams by Sunday had confirmed pre-orders and revenue in the bank, highlighting just what is possible when you assemble a bunch of strangers full of passion and amazing ideas, lock them away for 54 hours, and the result is eight cutting edge businesses launched on the Gold Coast over one weekend. Silicon Lakes will continue to host Gold Coast Startup Weekends in 2014. So get your thinking cap on, start sketching out some crazy ideas and who knows, after a 54 hour marathon weekend you too could be the founder of an amazing new Gold Coast startup business. For more information on Startup Weekend and Silicon Lakes, visit www.siliconlakes.com.au End
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