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Effective business meetings – making coffee and goals go together

“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to accomplish anything.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

Entrepreneurs generally leave their day jobs because they are so sick of the endless bureaucracy, nonsense procedure clutter and boring middle management meetings (where you are supposed to share knowledge but end up by sharing a total state of boredom). When they start their dream business they get to realise that meetings now account for more than 70% of their time, while bureaucracy is more present than even.

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March 2, 2011 by no comments

The 6 final Elevator Pitches for Startup Challenge!

Here are the 6 finalist startups for How To Web – Startup Challenge. 5 of them are from Romania and one from UK. Congratulations all and good luck further!

60 Second Pitch – QRky

QRky have developed a cutting edge mobile-content platform that allows users to digitally link their contact details and multimedia content to their printed medium using Quick Response (QR) / 2D barcode technology. QRky generates personalised QR barcodes that link to relevant, device specific content about each person who has a barcode.

Elevator Pitch – Squeeqly

Squeeqly allows online retailers to easily promote themselves on social networks through existing customers. Reward them for spreading the word about your great products.

Pitch FlairBuilder

FlairBuilder is a wireframing and prototyping tool aimed to help web designers and UX designers better communicate design concepts to their team or clients. It’s a cross-platform application built on Adobe AIR, and it provides that tools to quickly put up wireframes and interactive prototypes for websites, desktop application.

Pitch – Spikepress

SpikePress is a smart hosting service based on a WordPress-aware cloud combining affordable pricing with high quality support. We let online publishers focus on content and their users instead of technicalities.

Pitch – Axiologic

SensERP: Enterprise Software Development Platform for SMBs: - A technology/framework to reduce creation/maintenance costs for enterprise software - A strategy to replace spreadsheets - Flood the market with good quality software for SMBs (open source and commercial)

eDiploma

The project brings together four ISOC Chapters (Romania, Slovenia, U.S. Colorado & Pakistan), two existing , one to be created companies  and  one academic partner (the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie). These organizations work together in order to propose a solution to the problem of identity theft and fraud in the education domain. The project provide a solution to the problem of fake diplomas and academic transcripts by creating a secure technical and organizational framework using state-of-the-art technologies like qualified electronic signatures with time stamping.

Remember that all the participants at Startup Challenge are expected at Bucharest Hubb tomorrow for a private workshop with Jon Bradford and Stewart Townsend.

November 1, 2010 by 4 comments

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10 tips for making the most out of your next conference

Conferences are what you make of them. They can be a total waste of time or they can open up a world of opportunities for business and personal development, learning and networking. In my opinion, all you actually need to do in order to make conference attending pay off is plan ahead a little bit. Here are some tips that I always try to apply and that generally help me accomplish my conference goals:
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August 13, 2010 by 6 comments

Elevator Pitch

A winning speech for your elevator pitch

If you are an entrepreneur or a wanna-be start-up founder, you’ve probably heard that the first step in order to raise money for your start-up is to have a sexy elevator pitch. Are you ready to roll out your successful speech? Read on →

May 9, 2010 by 1 comment