Studentpreneur Podcast: Stories Of Students Who Are Entrepreneurs | Student Entrepreneur | Young Entrepreneur |

 Welcome to episode 12! My name is Julien Marchand, entrepreneur turned PhD student. Each week I bring you the best of those individuals who are students and entrepreneurs, I call them studentpreneurs. This week is another special episode on competitions. You have heard how critical competitions are to get started or motivated in a super safe environement. On the 8th ,9th and 10th of May I helped organise a weekend competition, called Startup Weekend, held on the Sunshine Coast here in Queensland, Australia. There are a lot these types of weekend competitions around, Startup Weekend is a franchise, check their website and check your local competition. The concept is pretty simple: you come on the Friday night with or without an idea, people pitch their ideas, the top ideas get chosen and teams form around those ideas. Then it's a crazy competition over 54 hours where people build a startup, pivot, eat and barely sleep until the final pitches on Sunday night. There is so much of positive energy being created,