STARTeurope

On March 18th a group of about 50 participants gathered at Nelsons, located in the middle of the Tech University of Vienna, to partake in the very first STARTup Hour.

It was the first stop for the participants of the LIFT@Austria conference, exploring enabling spaces and organizations in the region. The attendees were from Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, UK, Hungary, Belgium, US, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Belgium and Ecuador – making it a somewhat international gathering.

The innocent souls were put through a blistering hour of pitching, forming teams, working and presenting their own ideas at a rapid pace! Welcome, to STARTup Hour #1!

Simply put:

• - You get 60 seconds to pitch
• - You form a team to work with
• - You WORK focused for one hour.

Pitches

• STARTup Jam
• Meet a Homeless
• OpenIdeas – http://www.openideas.eu
• Lowering Corruption
• eduvent – http://www.eduvent.at
• DeskSurfing
• and more…

The pitchers all got tickets for the STARTup Live event in Vienna, June 11-13!

It was a very interesting experience, condensing our startup event to one hour, and we believe that we can use this format for some very focused networking/feedback events in the future.

Runtastic offers products and services for the collection, management and sharing of sport data. We connect sportsmen, convey fun when doing sports and motivate people doing sports. runtastic.at

Products and Services:

Millions of sportsmen are now able to manage their sport data in the sport portal www.runtastic.at. Statistics and reports can be seen and shared with friends. Fun when doing sports and entertainment are the core elements in the company’s business concept.

Sport related data are gathered from time measurement stations (based on RFID technology) and mobile applications (iPhone, Android, Training watches). The data are transmitted wireless to the sport portal without any effort for the user.

Entrepreneur Team

The runtastic GmbH has been founded by four university graduates (Rene Giretzlehner, Florian Gschwandtner, Christian Kaar, Alfred Luger) in October 2009.

Current Highlight

The runtastic iPhone application has already been developed and handed in to Apple. It is available for download in the app store.

Problem

Maybe this problem sounds familiar to you :
Whenever you have a good idea, in the end it is wasted and forgotten because you either had it at the wrong place or at the wrong time. Or maybe you are just missing the spark of inspiration to come up with something good. You might have problems launching your own ideas and be better at contributing to other person´s ideas and make them better.
Maybe you have tried to find people to engage in a discussion about an idea or project, but you haven´t found the right ones.
Perhaps you want to realize an idea but are missing some core skills to do that ?
If you have encountered any of these difficulties, there is good news for you- we offer you the solution to this problem.

Solution

On our platform you can post ideas and get feedback from people with different backgrounds and different points of view. You can find the right people for your project or idea by looking for people who have a similar mindset.
You and your contributors will ideally define the steps that are necessary for realizing a project.
And the best thing is, that you can always recycle parts of ideas and put them into a different context- no knowledge is wasted here !

Openideas.eu

Eduvent combines the words “education“ and “event“. It is a service that provides professional searching and registration for educational events like a mathematic lecture, a discussion meeting that deals with globalization or a recruiting event of a consulting company. Eduvent is the perfect link between young, involved people and excellent events. We communicate educational offerings in a fast and easy way, tailored to the individual needs of the seekers and suppliers.
Our platform promotes further educational and carrier events addressing students and young professionals, no matter if they are just looking for a single event or want to be regularly updated. Our service substitutes the costly and time consuming search on websites and a flood of annoying newsletters from different hosts.

Hosts are enabled to promote and administer their presentations, workshops, lectures, symposia and similar events in a central, fast and easy way. Further upcoming features will be a ticketing service and a facebook application.
All founders of eduvent are students, who met at the startup weekend in Vienna.

“Without the Startup Weekend Vienna I would have never found such a great team and idea. Startup Weekend is an awesome combination of a networking and a performing event. I often ask myself how I could get along without it. I am already looking forward to the next Startup Weekend to meet new people and get started on new projects.” – Jochen Schanbacher, Startup Weekend participant and co-founder of eduvent.
Eduvent.at