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To change the game, change the business model

in entrepreneurship, Innovation

nothing is quite what it seemsYesterday, I was a judge for a showcase of projects from marketing students of a local university. Most of the projects that were pitched are apps that exist elsewhere in some form; nothing game-changing. There were many common innovation myths that were present in many of the pitches, such as “our competitive advantage is being the first ones in Mexico”, “our competitive advantage is there isn’t something like this anywhere”, “our competitive advantage is we have no competition”. …

startup weekend tijuana team

8 Lessons from Startup Weekend Tijuana

in Innovation

startup weekend tijuana teamStartup Weekend Tijuana is in the books.

This past weekend was fast paced and intense. Exciting. Almost 50 participants, 25 ideas, 8 projects and 3 winners. Two of them left the event with seed capital.

Here are the projects:

  • WachaBache. A mobile application to crowdsource the reporting of streets that have holes and make driving a miserable experience.
  • Indueducation. A web service that offers leading indicators to help the government with academic decision making.
  • Eventum. A community for public social events.
  • Cruzas. A mobile application that shows indicators of when it is a good time to cross the border to San Diego.
  • Happy Birthday 2 me. A web service to help you organize your birthday and take advantage of local business offers.
  • Congresoplon. Monitoring the productivity of Congress and its participants.
  • Pimiento. Mobile app that suggests cooking recipes based on the ingredients that you have in your home.
  • Instapart. Find the auto part your are looking for in real-time.

And the winners were:

  1. Instapart
  2. Cruzas
  3. Eventum

Great job guys.…