Pitches 9 – 14
qriously.com, deskTOP, problem solving, play.fm, cookd.com, on the fly buy
Category Archives: STARTup Live Vienna
Pitches 4 – 8
Dislike button, Genuis Loci, Life Missons , Lexmarket, weTouch
Final presentations just kicked off
the final presentations just started – we had a few technical problems with the video but now things are rolling
Registration is almost complete – time to get STARTED
We are about 80% through with registration. Few people are still missing, but we will kick of the STARTup Live in about 15 minutes.
SLVie, Coachprofile: Matthias Riesinger from HUB Vienna
Hinnerk and Matthias from the HUB Vienna will be at STARTup Live Vienna to coach you on how to find your inspiration, alternative approaches to business and building a social enterprise which scales.
Check’m out here:
Stuff to ask about
- Social enterprises
- Founding
- Office space
- Doing good and making a buck
Panelist-Profile: Amy Hoy, designer, bootstrapper
Amy Hoy (bootstrapper, designer, founder) joins the panel of experts as queen of bootstrapping!
“Hi, I’m Amy. My Twitter bio is “interface radical.” I take boring old ho-hum software (like time tracking and tweet walls) and make it refreshing, shiny, and fun.”
“Create value, and charge for it” is one of her major views on founding and building companies. She writes about it beautifully on her blog: unicornfree.com. Among other things, she argues that working on your “monetization-strategies” is rather like admitting that your product does not really solve a problem worth solving…
Guiding Principles
Group number one:
- Beauty is as crucial to human happiness as function
- By doing great things, we invite & give permission for the people around us to do great things
- There is no such thing as “business ethics,” there is only “ethics,” full stop.
Group number two:
- Software can be uplifting
- Software can be cheerful and beautiful (even business software!)
- Software should help you grow, not just do what you expect it to do
Group number three:
- Openness
- Empathy
- Joy
- Stewardship
Stuff to ask about
- Building to keep
- Building on direct income – ergo bootstrapping
- Development
- Design
- Life as a foreigner in Vienna
So…
Meet her and get to know her views and experiences at STARTup Live Vienna #3.
Panelist-profile: Martin Sirlinger, investor
AWESOME! Martin Sirlinger from Creative Industries Invest is going to be on the panel of STARTup Live Vienna #3!
After studying at WU Vienna and Corvinus-University Budapest he went on to work for ONE, a former austrian mobile carrier. He worked in product management as well as on the strategy of the ONE Innovation Center. After the stint at ONE he founded Büro für Transfer as well as Avaloop IT Solutions which specialized in Online Gaming. He is currently a member of the departure expertpool, adviser for Mingo, lecturer/trainer in the creative industries and a partner in Creative Industries Invest.
Creative Industries Invest
CII, located in Viennas 5th district, advises companies/STARTups in creative industries regarding business planing, partnering, marketing and finance. Companies they worked with include Platogo, 123People, Tupalo, …
More Information about Creative Industries Invest can be found on their Twitter page as well as their Newsfeed.
Stuff to ask about
- business model
- financing
- looking for investment partners
- pitching
- social web
- strategy
- online gaming
- creative industries
- network/contacts
Get to know him and receive feedback for you product from a major supporter of the Viennese startup community.
Gentry Underwood – ideo.com – guest @ STARTup Live
Gentry Underwood heads IDEO’s Knowledge Sharing domain, which focuses on facilitating large-scale collaboration through the human-centered application of technology. He began his career as a software designer, after earning a degree in human-computer interaction from Stanford University. But he left Silicon Valley and the world of start-ups to study psychology, anthropology, and community development. Today Gentry combines his social science and design backgrounds to focus on building collaborative systems that people actually want to use.
Known Topics
- Community Building
- Design for Community
- Innovation Strategy
- Interaction Design
- Networked Culture
- Organizational Transformation
- Systems Design
- Technology Strategy
Published works:
- November 2009, “Social Software: The Other ‘Design for Social Impact’,” Core 77
- User-centered push methods and system (patent)
- 2007, “Capturing New Community: A Case Study in Digital Filmmaking as Ethnography“
Guest?
During the evening of Friday, June 11th, Gentry Underwoord will be at STARTup Live Vienna #3 as a guest. Get to know him, and see if you can’t get some of the vibes from one of the worlds most innovative companies – actually the guys BEHIND the innovation at the innovative companies – sweet eh? 
You will also have the opportunity to pitch in front of him and his peers at the IncrediblEurope Summit 2010, during Thursday, June 10th.