GOOGLE Start-Up Weekend: NLU Odisha

LexTech-Centre for Law, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, NLU Odisha is organizing GOOGLE Start-Up Weekend from 24th -26th March 2017.

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 1800 past events in 120 countries around the world.

The objective of Lextech is to cultivate a rare breed of entrepreneurs by incubating, accelerating, mentoring and funding innovative start-ups, thereby creating a transformational learning environment for motivating, preparing and assisting entrepreneurial leaders and scholars to turn knowledge into action in pursuing innovative solutions to the most pressing problems of the globe.

Who can participate?

Anybody interested can participate as there are no limitations on the basis of either educational qualification or experience. Typical crowd of Startup Weekend consists of-

• Hackers and Nerds who can code with speed and skill.


• Domain experts and Business guys who know the market need on the tips of their fingers.


• Designers with strong aesthetics and strong UI, UX skills.


• Hustlers who can drive the project and can pitch their idea with passion looking to build a fantastic team around their idea.


• Lawyers who are skipping their pitch of floating legal islands and are ready to explore.

Event Schedule:-

• Friday: Attendees pitch their ideas and inspire others to join their teams. Teams are therefore created to work on the best ideas.


• Saturday and Sunday: This is where you debate, build, and pitch. And build some more. Teams will focus on building a prototype of their idea/product. During this period teams will also focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Startup methodologies and building a minimum viable product.


• Sunday: In the evening teams demo their prototypes and receive valuable feedback from a panel of experts.

Why should you attend NLUO Startup Weekend?

• Build a strong network of young aspiring entrepreneurs, well established mentors and a network amazing investors.


• Think, conceive and deliver a product over a weekend. It’s just the super invested aura in the Startup Weekend that makes you amazingly productive.


• Get one-on-one time with the movers and shakers in your community. Local tech, startup leaders and legal minds participate in Startup Weekends as coaches and judges.


• Startup Weekend alumni span across several continents and scores of cities.


• 300$ worth of Google Cloud Platform credits to build mobile and web apps.


• Incubation call for the winning team from TiE.

Registrations shall be open till 14th March 2017.

The Registration Fees is Rs. 1000 (with discount Rs. 700). Book your tickets at https://in.explara.com/e/swcuttack. Discount coupons are available on the site till 14th march, 2017. Find the updates on the event, login to http://www.up.co/communities/india/cuttack-odisha-india/startup-weekend/about.

For further queries, feel free to mail at lextech@nluo.ac.in.

Click here for the Brochure.