STARTup Lounge Vienna
Time: September
Location: TBA
Agenda: TBA
Description:
The Lounges are adapted to what is needed – one is coming up in September – so let us know what you need!
Usually we make room for you to pitch your ideas and work with total strangers for a few hours – but we’ve also thrown parties, live-streamed a conference on lean startups, held pitch trainings… Whatever we see is needed.
STARTup Lounge Vienna #1 Photo Gallery
STARTup Lounge Vienna #1 Roundup
On April 23, we gathered with about 60 people at The Hub Vienna to talk about ideas and starting up.
This time, the Lounge consisted of a STARTup Hours and a live streaming of the awesome Startup Lessons Learned conference in San Francisco!
STARTup Hours
- Participants: 42
- Pitches: 10
- Groups formed: 7
- End Presentations: 7
Sponsors of the event
Supporters of the event
Results
- leads to strategic partners for a few projects
- a few new customers
- attention
- teams found
- inspiration to take new projects to the next level
Startup Lessons Learned Streaming
- Attendees: ~40
- Devoured Pizzas: ~30
- Devoured Red Bulls: ~70
- Devoured Innocent smoothies: ~170
- Devoured Beers: ~90
STARTup Hours
Pitches
Firefox Extension
Highlighting of words in texts using rules for finding the interesting words – link them up, as in add links to amazon, google, bing, wikipedia…
How can we make money?
Kids Paper
A magazine by and for kids.
How can we distribute it in a smart fashion?
OpenIdeas
Using a workflow to promote and get feedback on your ideas. You have hundreds of them, but where do they all go? http://www.openideas.eu is where they should go!
How can we improve?
CO2 Badges
A system for labeling goods with their carbon footprint.
How can we do it?
Cluug
Semantic ordering of information and documents in your office.
Looking for a CFO! – http://www.cluug.com
Multitouch displays
A scalable technology for creating multitouch surfaces in devices.
Where can we take it from here?
letsannotate.com
Online collaborative review – http://www.letsannotate.com
How can we spread the word?
DiscoSense
Creating nightlife experiences for impaired people – use technology and creativity to enhance the experience for the visually and hearing impaired.
How can we do it?
Mobile SOMA
A mobile discount store purchasing goods from larger retailers and selling them to people on the country side of Romania.
Define and help build it!
Startup Lessons Learned Livestream
The Startup Lessons Learned blog is written and maintained by Eric Ries and is focused on the lean startup methodology. This was the first conference gathering lean startups from the area, connecting them and looking at case studies and the theory behind the methodology.
Here you can find a great great writeup on the conference, by Sean Murphy.
During the evening a number of Viennese startups hung out at the Hub talking, watching and learning; among them were garmz, tupalo, qriously, cookd, letsannotate.com, studentlife, soup.io, gnowsis and MySugr.
Here some great material from the conference:
On Pivots: KISSmetrics
Watch live video from Startup Lessons Learned on Justin.tv
On Customer Development: Steve Blank
STARTup Hour #1 Roundup
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.