Monthly Archive for May, 2011

STARTup live Vienna

Published on May 28, 2011 in Austria and Current events. 0 Comments

I’m blogging from STARTup live, a three-day weekend workshop for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs-to-be in Vienna. Taking place at Microsoft’s spacious headquarters, 100 participants work in 27 teams developing business models, prototypes and design for web and mobile ideas.

Friday’s kick-off speech was given by serial entrepreneurs Markus Wagner and Oliver Holle who are about to launch Austria’s new Angel fund ’InitialFactor Speed Invest’ this Monday.

Disclosure: As a member of STARTeurope, I’m one of the co-organizors of STARTup live.

That said, I want to state that this has really been among the two best startup workshop I’ve seen in CEE region (the other one was IPO48 in Prague). We sold out all tickets.

In hosting startup events, I believe it pays off to concentrate on one sector – in this case web and mobile ideas – because that brings together the smartest brains interested in one area, setting free enormous creativity.

Raffael … who?

Published on May 23, 2011 in Austria and Slovakia. 0 Comments

This is my first blog post to you on nowEurope – thank you for your interest! Let me first introduce to you what I do and how I intent to write for you here.

I’m a German biz graduate, 26, living in Bratislava, almost daily commuting to Vienna and thus connecting the startup communities of Austria and Slovakia. And that’s what I want to write about because I believe there are very attractive opportunities in transnational entrepreneurial action and more people should know about them.

When publishing, I’m dedicated to the KISSS principle – Keeping It Short, Simple, Sexy. That’s why I want to only cover one thought at a time and try to keep each post between 100 and 200 words. Hope you like it and I’m always happy about straight feedback :-)

Having a fresh look at things: Raffael Kellner

Published on May 7, 2011 in Current events. 0 Comments

I just finished a Skype call with Raffael Kellner, with STARTeurope. He’s a bright, young guy with an interesting perspective on things. He’ll be joining us shortly as a nowEurope contributor.

I especially like how Raffael introduced himself by email:

I’m a frequent reader of nowEurope and I love it! I think you are doing a great thing that very much reflects my own transnational reality since I’m a German, living in Bratislava, working in Vienna, being an active member of STARTeurope from Austria and Startupcamp Slovakia.

Welcome, Raffael!