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Bahrain Startup Weekend, organised by Batelco in co-operation with Tenmou, is attracting much interest from aspiring entrepreneurs and skilled professionals of all ages, with many participants already signed up for the event.
Startup Weekend Bahrain will take place on November 17-19 at the Batelco Staff Centre in Hamala and form part of Global Entrepreneurship Week with more than 40 StartUp weekends taking place globally to mark the occasion.
The focus of the event is to discover entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs and assist them to establish successful ICT and e-business enterprises. Participants with marketing, public relations, business development, web design or application design skills are also required, as a wide range of skills are needed to form teams to develop the variety of business ideas.
The teams will have the opportunity to win cash prizes, funding and technical support to put their business plans into action. The winning team will receive a cash prize of BD4000, second prize is BD2000 and third prize is BD1000. Additionally the first three teams will be given free enrolment into Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB’s) Entrepreneurship Development Programme.
Participants of all nationalities and ages are invited to visit the web page bahrain.startupweekend.org to learn more about how Startup works and register to attend and participate. Interested parties may also keep up to date by following the Facebook page facebook.com/StartupWkndBH)and Twitter @StartupWkndBH.
