Successful startups in Boston

Startup Weekend’s approach is broad: rather than focusing on building product, or market research, teams are best-served by taking a holistic perspective of their concepts and balancing each aspect of their new company with the resources they have at hand.

Teams hard at work at Workbar!

To be successful at a Startup Weekend event, you’ve got to do your best with the time and team you have with you, whether you’re working on your own idea, or supporting someone else’s. In turn, you should expect that those who you’re working with will do the same. When polled after the event, a handful of the seventeen teams decided to continue working together on their new business ideas. Though they may not have an impact right away, the teams and ideas could become infinitely successful - Startup Weekend helped provide the spark!

The winning team was TrailMixr, a concept that offers customized trail mix in a vending machine format. The two runners-up were ATW Vocabulary, an online peer-based language learning solution and Ask More an event based question-sourcing web and mobile application.