AR Startup Hackathon

Work on cutting-edge AR hardware and APIs to hack novel solutions with a business model in mind.

Key theme for the startup hackathon is to showcase the necessity for a successful startup to be build around two pillars: an exciting product on the one hand and a functioning business model on the other hand. There are a lot of examples for failures based on a great product but no functioning business model and vice versa. This builds the underlying learning we want to achieve with our startup hackathon and foster long-term collaborations across UC Berkeley’s campus to enable more successful startups founded here. The mission is operationalized into the hackathon’s program by requiring each team to develop a prototype and a business model. Both have to work hand in hand together to have a chance of winning the 1st prize. Mentors will regularly check-in with the teams to encourage interactions between business model creation and prototyping and similarly advice is printed on the business model canvas that are provided to the teams.

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$11,200 in prizes

Please register at arhacks.io by Nov 27th!

• Prototype 40%
  (Idea, technical execution, user experience, design)
• Business Model 30%
  (Value proposition & revenue model, go-to-market strategy, market potential, team & needs, partners, validation through customer interviews)
• Integration between Prototype and Business model development 20%
  (alignment between business model and prototype, iterations)
• Quality of Pitch 10%
  How well you can sell your idea!