startup weekend brussels 2014 a huge success

Startup Weekend Brussels 2014

A Huge Success!

Organized for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs

Startup Weekends are 54 hours events where designers,

developers, marketers and project managers work

together in teams to turn an idea into a fully shaped

project and lauch their startups!

Brussels Figures

World figures

Event program

Friday evening: Participants pitch their

ideas in 60 seconds, then vote for the best

ideas and form a dozen teams.

Saturday:

Teams work on their startup, build a business

model and validated their hypothesis.

Sunday evening:

Teams pitch their newly built startup in front of a jury of professionals.

Brussels winners - 1st Prize

The Best Startup Prize went to Tiny Stories, an app

designed to help you build a cartoon in 60 seconds. The

jury was unanimous. Tiny Stories also received The Great

Jury Prize. Their moto was: Be a kid for 60 seconds.

Brussels winners – 2nd Prize

The Geekest Startup Prize went to Mailswipe, an app

that allows you to sort and take quick actions for your

mails on the go so that you can use all the time you are

loosing in the queues, elevators, boring meetings to sort

your mailbox.

Brussels winners – 3rd Prize

The Leanest Startup Prize went to Birzo, an online

platform using a Tinder-like website/app in which you

like or dislike beers by swiping pictures of craft beer

labels.

Why should you attend a Startup Weekend ?

•  Learn  new  skills  •  Build  your  network  •  Launch  a  new  business  •  Meet  a  co-­‐founder  •  Get  face  9me  with  thought  leaders  •  Save  money  &  get  stuff  •  Join  a  global  community    

« If we compare the cost for organizing such an event

and the number of startups that are actually launched

after Startup Weekend, the return on investment is

among the highest in the country. »

Nathanael Ackerman from Impulse Brussels ..  

You too, organize a Startup Weekend in your city!

http://startupweekend.org

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