On March 2, buses full of hopeful entrepreneurs departed San Francisco; Seattle; New York; Nashville, Tenn.; Tampa Bay, Fla.; Kansas City, Kan.; and Mexico City. The teams on each of these seven buses were tasked with building and launching a startup during a 72-hour trip to San Antonio, where a panel of six judges which includes tech luminaries Guy Kawasaki and Robert Scoble will evaluate their plans and announce the winner of the 2014 StartupBus North America.
Now in its fifth year, StartupBus is an intense competition designed to give coders, developers and Web designers the opportunity to join an elite startup community with the promise of taking their careers to new heights. The three- to four-person teams will face off at the final competition, held March 6 at the headquarters of cloud solutions provider Rackspace.
As this year’s competition gets underway, software engineer Mike Caprio, a 2011 contestant and co-winner, reflected on his experience aboard the StartupBus. Caprio, who now works at global product innovation company Neo, shared five entrepreneurial lessons he learned from competing in StartupBus North America. [How to Build a Winning Startup Team]
