Teaming up with startupweekend
Met with Clint Nelsen of www.startupweekend.org yesterday. Impressive what they have created in 2½ years. More than 10,000 participants have been through their program and around 30% of the startups created during those weekends are still running.
We found out that there are great synergies between startupweekend and www.startupbootcamp.dk, since many participants from the startupweekends are looking for something more after finishing the intense weekend program. And the next logical step could be to join startupbootcamp, which offers a 3 months program allowing the startup teams to really get in depth with their ideas, attract the first customers and by the end of the program picth their startup to dozens of investors.
For startupbootcamp it is interesting to team up with startupweekend since this can prove to be a very promising source of potential candidates for the program.
We have therefore decided to run 4 startupweekends in parallel in the weekend commencing the 9th of April 2010 in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki and Oslo. Startupbootcamp will be co-hosts and the winning teams will have a preferred route into the startupbootcamp program.
What an exciting weekend waiting in the Nordics!
/Carsten
Meeting a legend
Rainmaking partner Martin Bjergegaard today had the honor to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The talk was about our new fundraising portal, that we are about to launch April 2010 together with leading NGOs. 78 years old Mr. Tutu is full of enthusiasm, energy and jokes! He laughed a lot during the short conversation, and is clearly a very warm and friendly person. It was a true pleasure to meet him, and we hope to be able to establish a collaboration with his organization; Desmond Tutu Peace Center.
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