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Why we’re skipping SXSW

Why we’re skipping SXSW

I’ve been going to SXSW two years in a row and I’m the first one to agree that it’s a terrific conference. Not only for the talks but mostly for the amazing people that flood the city during the Interactive festival. That said, the conferences has one problem. As a

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Lisbon Sandbox Summit 2012

Lisbon Sandbox Summit 2012

I just came back from one of the most interesting events I’ve attended in quite some time. It’s been 3 long years since I met Nico, one of the Sandbox network cofounders. It was at a pre-party at Leweb and I can still remember his words when asked what was

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9 tips to deliver better pitches

9 tips to deliver better pitches

Last week we did our first physical event, called 42 beers. I was a little bit nervous about it as it was the first time we where doing it and the concept is a little vague for most startups. Many of the startup pitching events I normally attend are mainly

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42 Beers is about to launch

42 Beers is about to launch

Hey guys! I’m super glad to announce we’re doing our first event next week (Jan 25th, 7:00pm)! And guess what? It’s called 42 Beers! Yeah!! So we finally secured a very cool venue and we have our initial lineup for the event. Two very cool startups with a very different

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LeWeb Startup Competition Day 2

LeWeb Startup Competition Day 2

Yesterday I attended the LeWeb Startup Competition Day 1, today we finished with all the startup pitches. I have to say I was surprise by a couple of startups, but all in all, I underline what I said yesterday, the quality was so-so. Most of the startups don’t seem to

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StartupBus arrives to LeWeb

StartupBus arrives to LeWeb

Among the many startup related things this year, the StartupBus is one that’s really cool. A week ago I wrote about this program which I saw the first time during SXSW this year. The bus arrived 2 days ago and since then their buspreneurs have been running all around the

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LeWeb startup competition Day 1

LeWeb startup competition Day 1

Yesterday I had the chance to watch half of the startup competition pitches at LeWeb. I really don’t want people to get offended but some of the presentations where rather weak. Having judges like David Hornik from August Capital and failing to talk about your business model or what problem

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Lesson number one: put your contact details online

Lesson number one: put your contact details online

Hi everyone, so I’m here at LeWeb covering all startup related things. So, the first thing I did was to go and talk to the Startup Competition finalists. As I don’t have their emails I went through their websites and started either contacting them through their contact form (if they

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e-nnovation conference 2011

e-nnovation conference 2011

Hi from Poland! I’m currently attending one of my favorite tech conferences in Europe, e-nnovation conference in Poznan. It’s a conference sponsored by the Allegro Group, Poland’s eBay and I must say, one of the becons of entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe. Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk called “Why startups