This experience really highlights one of the major misconceptions of Startup Weekend events. It is really an exercise in building a startup in 54 hours. You learn how to work with a team, validate an idea, the devs hopefully learn some business stuff and the business people hopefully learn some dev stuff. You build a prototype and pitch to the judges as if you were pitching to investors. But that's all it is - an exercise meant to improve your skills, meet new people and improve the startup community in your area. I think it is simply unrealistic to expect an actual startup to come out of the weekend. Validate an idea and meet new people, yes, but a startup is much more than that.
