AllStar team wanted to face high profile VC panel

Mike from Webstock tasked me with pulling together an AllStar Silicon Welly team for the halfbaked.com challenge as part of the upcoming webstock mini this April 22 (register here).

This is a super quick think on your feet and come up with something cool and present it like masters to Sam Morgan, Rod, and Rowan Simpson, up against the mighty code blacks if you’re up to it let me know (tim at planhq dot com) , this will be fun and a good test of how on to it and real-time we are, here’s how it works.

Halfbaked.com @ Webstock

So, what’s a halfbaked.com challenge? The idea is taken from events held last year. It’ll break down like this:

• Act 1: the audience will yell out ~50 random words
• Act 2: each team chooses 2 words + “.com”
• Act 3: each team has ~30 min to prep their BlankBlank.com biz plan - (biz plan = product idea, revenue model, marketing plan, logo, tagline)
• Act 4: each team does a 5 minute pitch on their product to a VC panel
• Act 5: the audience votes on who did the best job and we all celebrate the insanity

The competing teams will be the New Zealand CodeBlacks and a Silicon Welly All-Star team, members to be announced soon. Hard to know who’ll be the favourite at this stage, but certainly the Silicon Welly team will need to bring their A-game against the battle-hardened CodeBlacks.

And the VC panel? The teams will have to impress Sam Morgan, Rowan Simpson and Rod Drury, all no doubt wearing their best VC t-shirts.

Eitehr way register up for April 22, as usual it will be a great event.