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by Alex aka Chief WOWness in / corporate / events / press42
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Do you want to change your company’s corporate culture? Learn how now!

Do you want to change your company’s corporate culture? Learn how now!

Hello, everyone! We’re very happy to announce that we’re partnering with our good friends from Improvement21 to deliver a new workshop on CultureHack in London! What is this CultureHack thing? Well, we will be focusing on Change Management, Culture improvement and Storytelling in a business context. So, essentially, how do

by Alex aka Chief WOWness in / events / startups
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Bitspiration crowdfunding the start-up prize

Bitspiration crowdfunding the start-up prize

Some of you know that I have a very good relationship with Poland. Last year a bunch of friends got together and launched a new conference there called Bitspiration. We brought amazing speakers and we essentially designed the conference from speakers to speakers. It was a very homey setting and

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Heading to TNW Conference

Heading to TNW Conference

For all the traveling I did this year, 2013 has been pretty quite for me. I needed my rest and I’ve enjoyed staying home for more than one week straight. Like many of my colleagues all over the world, conference fatigue symptoms have been appearing left and right. Now, I’ve decided to

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Lisbon Big Apps Conference

Lisbon Big Apps Conference

After many events, I’m growing very tired of the usual stuff. Every time I open my Twitter it’s the same old ,same old. Every time I read about an event, it’s similar. Today I read this quote on declaring failure by my friend Danielle that made me smile: “Your company

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Hy! Berlin startup competition

Hy! Berlin startup competition

I tend to be quite bullish about startup competitions, mostly because so many of them are done really wrong. But I have to say, I’m excited to see what the hy! Berlin team is pulling off. To start with, they’re offering the winners a prize of €15,000 plus several services,

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Nail your startup pitch at 42 Beers

Nail your startup pitch at 42 Beers

One more time, and before we head into the new year, we, that is, the Press42 team, are getting ready for the next edition of the 42 Beers event, our own training camp for your start-up pitch. Plenty of events focus on start-up pitching, but in essence, most of them deal

by Alex aka Chief WOWness in / events / startups
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Startups, your landing page sucks

Startups, your landing page sucks

Why do start-ups get competitions so wrong? I’m in shock after preliminary evaluating the LeWeb start-up competition. For starters, three companies out of the sixteen had their landing pages in their local language, French, Italian and Spanish. The Italian and the French were, at least, also available in English, not

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Our two start-up favorites at LeWeb

Our two start-up favorites at LeWeb

I’m going to go ahead a make a quick prediction on the start-ups that might win the LeWeb competition this year. This is exclusively based on their webpage, my understanding of what they’re trying to do (sometimes quite liberal understanding), and the WOW factor they have. I’m declaring Agents of

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Meet the LeWeb startups

Meet the LeWeb startups

With few days for LeWeb Paris, I wanted to introduce you to this year’s startups selected for the official competition. We tend to cover this event every year but this time is specially interesting for the novelty of the theme, Internet of Things (IoT), which makes the competition much more

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Interested in Machine to Machine? Come to LeWeb

As every year, we’re gearing for the last sprint of the year, December and with Christmas down the horizon, it’s a tradition to talk about this years LeWeb edition. I’m very excited about it this year, specially for the theme Löic and Geraldine have chosen: The Internet Of Things. As I