Startup Live Athens #2 roundup


Key facts

Introduction

Startup Live Athens set a different scene right in the center of Athens, during the first summer heat wave, at ALBA Graduate Business School at the American College of Greece. It already started on June 7, with a pitch training for the aspiring entrepreneurs. During the pitch training important points that should be part of the presentation but also business building were stressed out. Startup Live Athens #2 was also the first time in Greece that an event included pitching, mentoring and hands-on business building with the special focus on cultural and social entrepreneurship.

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Startup Live Vienna #7 roundup

Key facts

  • Date: 14 – 17 June 2012
  • Venue: Microsoft HQ, Vienna
  • Participants: 70
  • Mentors: 12
  • Judges: 5
  • Final Pitches: 12

Introduction

Grabbing the momentum Startup Live Vienna 6 generated not even three months ago, we realized there is too much going on in and around this city to not channel these ideas and bring them together for a seventh time round. So once again Startup Live Vienna set foot into the fantastic Microsoft Headquarters – the same address (as for previous events) but an entirely new venue! Microsoft had pimped the place up. You could tell they picked up some serious cash to make this a wonderful space that fosters both creativity and the diligence to work three days straight. And work everyone did!

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STARTeurope taking over Brussels

What is one of the most often used word in media at the moment? – Yeah, you’re right: It’s “crisis”. Whenever you hear news it is about the Debt Crisis, the weak Euro, the struggling of countries like Greece and Spain and so on.

What we don’t hear are the good news, so I would like to give you some: There is progress. There are people willing to break and create things – and they are motivated. The second Startup Live in Athens for instance is just one example for that. Another example is an event, which took place on the Wednesday, 30th of May, in the European Parliament in Brussels.

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Startup Live Hagenberg #2 roundup

Key facts

  • Date: 9 May – 11 May 2012
  • Place: FH Oberösterreich Campus Hagenberg, Austria
  • Participants: 62
  • Mentors: 13
  • Judges: 5
  • Idea pitches: 18
  • End Presentations: 13

Introduction

For the second time Startup Live Hagenberg opened its gates for a crowd of highly motivated and innovative students of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria for Informatics, Communications and Media and the Johannes Keppler University Linz. Surrounded by nature the university sets the perfect stage for focusing on your studies, or, in our case, coming together and rocking Startup Live Hagenberg. Hagenberg as an IT-University also dictates our main focus, which is mobile applications and web services.

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Startup Live Tirana #1 roundup

Key facts

  • Date: 25 May – 27 May 2012
  • Place: Faculty of Economy, Tirana, Albania
  • Participants: 54
  • Mentors: 9
  • Judges: 5
  • Idea pitches: 21
  • End Presentations: 13

Introduction

Maybe one of the most successful events in town? Say it out loud!

Everything started just a few months ago, when we, four students of the faculty of economy decided to bring Startup Live to Albania – a first time effort. Having the desire to awake entrepreneurship and leadership between students and Unique Junior Enterprises, we worked hard to organize Startup Live Tirana. At first, things seemed so difficult, but as the time went by, we realized that with some passion and efforts everything could be done.
We decided not to focus on a specific topic in order to gather a lot of students with different backgrounds and ideas. There was only one aim of the Startup Live Tirana: giving young and creative students the chance to present a business idea, develop it, improve on it, and finally presenting it in front of a jury of professionals.

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