Education, entrepreneurship, Events

First Ever Startup Weekend Cologne is an EPIC Success

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The very first Startup Weekend Cologne was held January 25 – 27 2013. And what a spectacular event it was. Sold out in advance, the event was a complete storming success which saw 125 participants and over 220 people coming by over the weekend.

We even had the founder of Startup Weekend himself, US American Andrew Hyde attending!

See for yourself:

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

An interview with Andrew Hyde, founder of Startup Weekend

 

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Education, entrepreneurship, Lessons Learned, News

Lessons Learned – steps2startup at University of Cologne

I was recently invited to speak about my lessons learned as a startup entrepreneur at the steps2startup program at the University of Cologne.

steps2startup is a student initiative at the University of Cologne to help young people interested in startups and entrepreneurship build their network and exchange experiences and ideas with like-minded people. It is important for entrepreneurs to get started on their ideas and build on their business, so they will need as much advice as they can get, this may even mean contacting a trade secret lawyer California firm or a firm in their location so they can see how they can protect their ideas.

It was inspiring to see about 50+ student in attendance at a very busy exam time.

Here are the slides I used:

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