Startup Weekend Micronesia creates sustainability-focused enterprise ideas | Guam Organization
2 min read3 sustainability-targeted business ideas came out of the Startup Weekend Micronesia celebration. The on the net function was hosted from April 31 to May possibly 2 by the College of Guam Entrepreneur Society student firm, UOG’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Pacific Islands Tiny Organization Enhancement Centre Network, in accordance to a launch from UOG.
With the help of Northern Marianas School, the Higher education of Micronesia-FSM, and SBDC facilities through Micronesia, the weekendlong party engaged 31 participants on 8 islands all over Micronesia with the aspiration of beginning their own organizations.
Individuals pitched their enterprise suggestions with a concentration on sustainability. The participants then fashioned teams and created company programs to turn the most possible ideas into modest-enterprise startups. The teams pitched their startups to a panel of judges who determined the winners, the release stated.
“We persuade all the teams to make their new company strategies a fact,” said Jeresa Camacho, an officer of the Entrepreneur Culture at UOG.
The winning teams
• 1st Place: Vibin’ Ridez
Thought: Electrical bicycle and scooter product sales, rentals and servicing.
Associates: Limuel Francisco Bernal, CNMI Kevin John De Torres, CNMI Jessica Estrada, CNMI Korky Aguon, CNMI and Andrew Duenas, Guam.
• Second Put: Bundle Convey Limitless
Thought: An inexpensive shipping and delivery assistance for mail and merchandise throughout Pohnpei.
Associates: Terrence Yamada, Pohnpei Jerick Welbert, Pohnpei Michael Panuelo, Pohnpei Abigail Oyardo, Guam and Destini Adkins, CNMI.
• 3rd Area: Secure Ingesting H2o
Strategy: A harmless ingesting water answer for inhabitants of Kosrae.
Customers: Emily O’Steen, Kianalynn M. Sigrah, Sepe T. Tolenna, Tolenna M. Tolenna, Trime S. George and Steve P. George, all from Kosrae.
The winners ended up awarded a variety of sustainable items as effectively as gift certificates and laptop computer bags, AirPod Execs, and Yeti goods.
The party is linked with Google Techstars Startup Weekend, a application that has been launched in far more than 150 nations around the world all through the globe. Its intent is to educate aspiring business owners how to make a serious business.
UOG graduate students in the Skilled Grasp of Company Administration plan and the Pacific Islands SBDC at UOG very first brought the Startup Weekend celebration design to Guam in 2014, to Saipan in 2016 and to Palau, Chuuk, Kosrae, Yap and Pohnpei for the initial time in 2019.
