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Friday Roundup

Saturday is taking off – time to take a quick look at what we have got so far.

We had 25 Ideas pitched – 12 of those turned into ideas. Game Mechanics, Web TV are some of the most popular topics amongst our teams.

Saturday is kicking off with the business model canvas session

Here are some impressions

Busy preparing – 2 hours till we open the floodgates for your ideas

STARTup Live Vienna #4 – Just around the corner

The next STARTeurope event takes place this weekend, and will be quite interesting. Looking at the stats of the participants we can proudly say that Europe is in the house

During the pitchtraining and in personal talks with the registered pitchers, we got some insight into what is about to hit Vienna at the end of the week:

• Hardware
• Web 2.0
• Games
• Social entrepreneurship
• Social Web
• Mobile Apps
• Biochem
• Medicine
• Innovation Management
• …

Pitches

We are blown away by the amount of registered pitchers this time around – so much, that we even had to consider closing the doors for new ideas – but that would have been soooo not-STARTeurope’ean.

Out of the 95 registered participants, sofar 32 have registered as pitchers.

Geography

This time around we have participants from 12 nations, our best so far was 18, but this will have to do

Backgrounds

We have a slight overload on the biz side, as usual, but considering we have a techie among us who built stuff for MIR, I wouldn’t worry too much about that.

Fem(Tech/Law/Design/Entrepreneurs)?

To summarize

Thinking back to the first event we threw, in June 2009, the pitches were rough, the people in-experienced and we didn’t have a clue about how much breakfast one should buy for 50 people. Most of the organizers pitched their own ideas and we were all nervous about how many participants would hear the call and stand up, grab the mic and use their 90 seconds. Time flies when you have fun…

Working for about 1.5 years now, touching the lives of over 1000 individuals from a horde of different nations – we constantly get the feedback that we are making a difference. We have seen the quality of pitches, projects and people rise with each event – and this one will follow the trend.

See you on Friday.

STARTup Live #3 Videos

STARTup Live Vienna #3 roundup

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STARTup Live Vienna #3 in pictures

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STARTup Live Vienna #3 impressions

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STARTup Live Vienna #3 Roundup

Key facts

• Date: 11th to 13th of June 2010
• Place: Microsoft HQ, Vienna
• Participants: 94
• Guests: 55
• Mentors: 33
• Experts: 7
• Idea pitches: 27
• Venture teams: 16
• End presentations: 16
• Pivots: 4

Companies and Ideas

And now, please welcome the teams and their ideas!

WINNER

• Pitcher:
  Christopher Kahler
• Tagline:
  What People Think Now.
• Description:
  ….

• Pitcher:
  Martin Schürrer
• Tagline:
  Easy Collaborative Review
• Description:
  Upload your pdf, annotate and share it. Kept simple.

• Pitcher:
  Wolfgang Fuchs
• Tagline:
  Complain, share, change
• Description:
  Dislikedit.com is about giving consumer a new online voice and to fight against annoying, bad and unsustainable products, brands and services. The idea for Dislikedit.com was born out of the obvious lack of the “dislike” button on Facebook, is currently at concept stage, seeking for developers and investors.

Life Missions

• Pitcher:
  Benedikt Glatzl
• Tagline:
  Start Playing. Start living.
• Description:
  Using the reward-system of computergames for getting more active and real life and do good for yourself and society.

Genius Loci

• Pitcher:
  Sebastian Olesko
• Tagline:
  Smart office environment
• Description:
  Furniture from new wooden material – wood injection in shapes.

Play.fm goes HD-TV

• Pitcher:
  Thomas Buchstätter
• Tagline:
  See title
• Description:
  Listen to more than 21.000 DJ mixes on your HD-TV using open source media center Boxee (www.boxee.tv).

Dr. Ederl <<– the moviepitch

• Pitcher:
  Markus Ederl
• Tagline:
  Ads suck.
• Description:
  I-net show doing crazy funny and exciting stuff with products, events, software, creative advertising for companies, great entertainment for the rest!

• Pitcher:
  Clemens Mensik
• Tagline:
  Intuitive Interaction
• Description:
  Transforming the point-of-advertising into a point-of-sale by combining all the tools needed (payment interfaces, mobile website and mobile tag creation) to do so into one easy to use solution.

• Pitcher:
  Nik Graaf, cookd team
• Tagline:
  Online restaurant guide
• Description:
  Discover culinary highlights in Vienna’s most accurate restaurant guide.

• Pitcher:
  Octavian
• Tagline:
  Matching lawyers with people
  Matching law firms with businesses

echo

• Pitcher:
  Allan Berger
• Description:
  Echo is an online service where you can monitor response-, up- and downtime of your website(s). If either responsetime is too long or your website is down you instantly get notified via Text and/or Email. The performance of your website(s) is very important, as it affects the Google Pagerank since April 2010. Furthermore late downtime recognition could end up in high unnecessary financial loss. To prevent such discomfort a service like echo is a must to every webhost who is running one website and even more essential if running multiple websites.

Varieté Melange

• Pitcher:
  Marion Knotzer
• Tagline: A stage for everyone
• Description:
  This event is the chance for unexperienced artists from different artbranches to be famous for 15minutes! For guests its a great way to experience a variety of art in one evening! The next one will be on the 9th July, 2010, at 8:30PM at the legendary Badeschiff in Vienna.

Analogy Problem Solving

• Pitcher:
  Dan Dimitriou
• Tagline: A new concept of problem solving
• Description:
  If we know the natural, unchangeable rules that govern one domain, for instance music, we can use them in another one where apparently no rules govern, for instance economics, in order to optimize the latter. I have made that statement being sure (from own observations in research) that things happen and evolve following the same patterns… Even if the shape (domain) is different, the essence (rule, development) remains the same.
  Everything is connected to everything, therefore problems that occur in a domain that is not very well known, can be solved using data from another field where things can be clearly proved.
  In order to confirm this theory I have been talking to lots of specialists from my country (engineers, artists, mathematicians….) but I do not want it to remain a bare theory, being more interested in a practical use.

KnowledgeYatra (facebook)

• Pitcher:
  Julia Hüpfl
• Tagline: Travel to learn
• Description:
  Connecting young people in Europe and India over culture, travel, learning and substantial issues
  Whenever we travel the most significant things are people we meet & experiences we share, these are the memories that stay forever. Our organization KnowledgeYatra creates these experiences by taking you on a Journey that make you travel, learn, interact and get a peek into the cultures of the destinations you go to. As our name already suggests (Yatra is the hindi word for Journey) we provide knowledge & learning based travel experiences.
  With a focus on India as destination we want to develop cultural and developmental understanding, by organizing 2-4 week Intercultural & Developmental Study tours. These study tours have a shared focus on getting to know the country and its culture through many interactions with locals and topics of social development. We would like to provide the participants a chance to explore the deep and vibrant cultures of India and Europe, offering more than just superficial tourist programs.

MORE TO COME
there were sixteen of’m for gods sake!!

A little bit of networking and closing up – it was a blast

The last pitches and a Huge Thank YOU

Pitches 9 – 14

qriously.com, deskTOP, problem solving, play.fm, cookd.com, on the fly buy