startup weekend brussels 2014 a huge success
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Startup Weekend Brussels 2014
A Huge Success!
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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!
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Brussels Figures
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World figures
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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« 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 ..
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You too, organize a Startup Weekend in your city!
http://startupweekend.org
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Sponsors
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Partners