Past articles

Eastern European Mobile Monday – Bucharest, 26-28 September

Looking over your schedule for the next week and finding it a bit empty? Here’s an event no web and mobile lover should miss. Eastern European Mobile Monday Developer Summit takes place in Bucharest from the 26th to the 28th of September, at the World Trade Center.

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September 22, 2011 by no comments

How to Web Roadshow: we’re in Sofia on September 27th!

Sofia web community, we’re coming to meet you! We’re working hard on preparing for our conference in November and we’d like to have as many attendees from the Eastern European community there. But before that, we’re leaving on a road tour through some of the most important tech cities in EE.

Our first stop is Sofia, where we’ll be crashing the Open coffee meeting Read on →

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Arctic15 is almost here

Arctic15 has announced the event agenda and the finalists for the startup competition. As September 22nd is almost here, the conference is all set and ready to go. With a lineup of great speakers and 15 startups ready to present their products in front of the jury and the audience, the event is bringing together entrepreneurs and investors from the Nordic and Baltic region Read on →

September 9, 2011 by no comments

Reshma Sohoni: European Entrepreneurs – the recipe for success

Reshma Sohoni, the Seedcamp CEO, opened the second day of the How To Web 2010 edition. Her presentation was entitled “European Entrepreneurs – the recipe for success”.

In her presentation, Reshma spoke about the Seedcamp micro-fund and program for entrepreneurs and shared some DOs and DON’Ts for European startups.

DOs:

- be commercial, not just techie;

- be assertive, positive, optimistic about your product;

- be awesome at helping start-ups as you are;

- be open to going where the opportunities are

DON’Ts:

- be afraid to think big

- be apologetic for being from Eastern Europe

- be secretive about your idea

- talk to good people

- use smaller markets as excuse.

The 3 very important elements for a start-up from Reshma’s point of view are Passion, Customer Thinking and Execution.

You can find Reshma’s presentation below:

November 16, 2010 by no comments

Luka Abrus: Building a successful local mobile app

Luka Abrus, Member of the Board for ShoutEm UK Ltd and the CEO of Five Minutes Ltd, spoke at How To Web 2010 about Building a successful local mobile app.

According to Luka the 3 key factors to building a successful local community are the following:

1. Local content;

2. Service information;

3. Community background.

Find out more about Luka’s presentation below:

November 15, 2010 by no comments