Startup Live Prishtina
Startup Weekend Prishtina #1 | Follow-Up Program!
As announced during the closing event on March 28th at Sheshi 21, we — UNI Group, ECIKS and STARTeurope — will hold the promissed follow-up for you to discuss the progress of your projects.
We — this is Valmir, Fidel and Marius will be available for you all day on Friday, June 4th. We will be accompanied by Can Ertugrul, STARTeurope’s business model specialist and our friend and coach Mark Tuttle (whom you already know as a speaker and panalist from last time).
Follow-Up Sessions all day Friday
To book your follow-up session for your team, please select a time slot below and enter your project name & contact data; please also make sure to coordinate yourself with your teammates.
It is not necessary that all of you come (as much as we like to see everyone again!), so just figure out a time that works best for those of you that can be there.
Deadline for registering is Thursday noon! We’ll bring your participation certificates with us!
If the time slots suggested by us do not work for you at all, contact Valmir (valmir.mustafa@uni-group.org) or Fredrik (fredrik.debong@starteurope.at) to find an alternative. We’ll try to be as flexible as possible. We are in town from Thursday evening to Saturday morning, and Mark (Tuttle) will be around additionally all day Saturday to work with you!
- Location: “Resource Hub Prishtina” of the Economics Faculty at Unversity of Prishtina - Str. Agim Ramadani P.N. 10000 Prishtine
- When: 10am to 6pm (Friday June 4th)
- Registration: per team, see below
Friday Lunch
- Location: Rings Center, Mother Theresa Square
- When: 1pm to 2pm (Friday June 4th)
- Registration: individually, see below
Drinks Friday Evening
Also, we would love to see you all for a couple of drinks that night. The entire team and Mark will be there… how about you?
- Location: Tingle Tangle
- When: 9pm to 11pm (Friday June 4th)
- Registration: just come!
Clubbing
afterwards, we’ll head for the dancefloors of Prishtina — join us!
- Location: Depo Club
- When: 11pm – open end (Friday June 4th)
TIme slot Registration
STARTup Live Prishtina #1 Photo Gallery
STARTup Live Prishtina #1 Roundup
Key facts
- Date: 26 – 28 March 2010
- Place: American University in Kosovo (AUK), Prishtina
- Participants: 76
- Idea pitches: 24
- Venture teams: 7
Summary:
The first STARTup Live event in the Balkans took place in the Republic of Kosovo, Europe’s youngest state. Upon invitation by the three host organizations, ECIKS, UNI Group and START, 70 students and entrepreneurs from Prishtina met a delegation of European business people and venture experts at the American University in Kosovo for a weekend of intensive idea generation and business planning.
Following the format developed at Vienna’s successful STARTup events, participants pitched as many as 24 ideas from the broadest range of business topics to their peers, followed by a swift team-building process that championed seven concepts to be worked on in detail over the weekend.
While teams were busy getting their ideas and visions translated into real-world business scenarios, they received support from an interdisciplinary group of coaches. Even during lunch break, Startup Weekend served its participants entrepreneurial brain food: Andreas Klinger, co-founder of garmz.com, enriched the audience at AUK’s terrace with real-life anecdotes in his entertaining luncheon “entrepreneur’s report”.
The teams’ final presentations were held at the closing event Sunday afternoon under the patronage of Prof. Enver Hoxhaj, Minister of Education, Science and Technology of the Republic of Kosovo. Valuable feedback and market insight was provided by our experienced local and international panelists:
Experts Panel
- Linda Shala – Director Data Project Electronics, Prishtina
- Shpend Ahmeti – Executive Director GAP Institute , Prishtina
- Shkumbin Brestovci – General Manager RROTA, Prishtina
- Kujtim Dobruna – President ECIKS, Vienna
- Mark Tuttle – biogy.com, USA
- Nicolai Sawczynski – ARGE Bildungsmanagement, Vienna
- Bernhard Thalhammer – First Love Capital, Vienna
START and its co-hosts will continue to support this weekend’s entrepreneurs as they move on. To quote one participant’s feedback form, they “are counting the weeks to the follow-up event”.
