Web Summit

  • Web Summit 2014 – Wrap Up

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    who cares? Shouldn’t be a startup global citizenship from day 1 »?), like WiCard, Unono, Bookbedder, Prodibi, Fitaborate, iRewind, Swispon Corp, PrYv,  mobino, Konduko, Shoreli, etc. And probably a lot more that I’ve missed (if you were there and I haven’t mentioned you – please add your startup in the comments)! I’m curious to listen to…

  • 4 startups events in Europe you should attend

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    Pioneers Festival (Vienna, October 29-30th 2014) This 2-days festival (with an extra additional day before, for investors only) is gathering year after year a great panel of speakers and investors in the city. Pioneers is inviting super smart speakers like Fred Destin (former Atlas Ventures, now Accel in London), Neil Patel (Kissmetrics, etc.) or Dave McClure (500…

  • Welcome to the "Grand Bazaar" of startups

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    For the second year, I’m attending Dublin Web Summit these days (I’ve written about it last year: Ireland –  a European Startup Eldorado?). The event, which already was the biggest in Europe with around 4’000 attendees for 2 days, has now more than doubled in size with more than 10’000 people among the smartest minds…

  • What are you doing end of October?

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    As Summer is quietly over, the season of startup conferences is starting again. Of course, as an entrepreneur, you cannot go to every conference and you have to select carefully where you would like to invest your time. Because as well as you can do (extremely) interesting contacts for the future of your business, most of…

  • Planning my networking at Dublin Web Summit

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    What’s the goal of tech conferences for entrepreneurs? N-E-T-W-O-R-K-I-N-G! Some guys will tell you they just come to learn about what’s going on. But as a startup founder, can your really afford to “lose” time? And to make your attendance at a tech conference valuable, the key is preparation. For Dublin Web Summit, I was…