OuiShare, the global organisation of collaborative economy enthusiasts and professionals is hosting its first major event in Central and Eastern Europe. Get together with collaborative economy professionals for a one-day event on April 11, 2014.
OuiShare, the global organisation of collaborative economy enthusiasts and professionals is hosting its first major event in Central and Eastern Europe. The workshop titled "How to build a startup in the Collaborative Economy?" is focused on shared economy, and is aimed at startups, investors and professionals, who share a passion for collaborative consumption and its latest trends.Read more »
The Geekettes are organizing their first European Demo Day on June 6, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. The event aims to support women in their investment pitch training. 10 girls will be given the opportunity of pitching in front of a room of angels and investors.
Geekettes is a community dedicated to facilitating relationships between women in the technology sector. This network, founded in February 2011, helps women in Berlin’s rapidly expanding, grass-roots technology scene. It started as a women-in-tech mentorship program with monthly meetings at Google’s Berlin headquarters. Founders Jess Erickson and Danielle Philipp believe that the more women get involved with tech design, development and leadership, the more successful and diverse our companies and products will be in the future. Read more »
Along the Danube River lies one of the most beautiful cities in Europe: Budapest. Besides a good number of World Heritage Sites, Budapest is one of the most attractive metropolitan cities in Europe, and it also has a young, blossoming startup scene.
This guide started in 2013 with the aim to give a conscise overview of what to look out for if you are a young entrepreneur in Budapest. It has proven to be a most valuable source of information for a lot of people interested in the local startup ecosystem. We are releasing the article in 2014 as well with updated information.Read more »
One of the first international business accelerators in Hungary, iCatapult launched in December 2012. Now they felt it was time to share some of the key takeaways and lessons learned along the way. Gabor Papp's article appeared on the iCatapult blog.
One of the first accelerators in Hungary, iCatapult launched in December 2012, but the actual, hands-on work started back in August. It has been more than a year and half since we have started the daily operations and got our hands dirty. At the beginning, there were many ideas about execution, each with its own set of assumptions. Finally iterated our way to a model that we were willing to go with. Our one-line pitch represents this model the best: iCatapult is a global business development accelerator for CEE tech startups. This one liner represents our vision and embodies our major commitments. iCatapult focuses on global technologies. We believe that many non-US startups have the potential of going global from day one. They just need the boost to avoid cultural, language, financial barriers and the lack of a cohesive network.Read more »
Prezi pledged to contribute $100 million in software licenses to President Obama's ConnectED initiative to modernize classrooms. The Hungarian startup is the first European company to join a group of tech corporations putting $1 billion behind the programme.
Prezi, the cloud-based zooming presentation tool, which competes with Microsoft PowerPoint and Apple Keynote, is the latest technology company to join President Obama’s ConnectED Initiative to help the U.S. education system move forward into a more technology-centred world. Prezi’s commitment will provide $100 million in Edu Pro licenses to hundreds of thousands of high schools and educators. Read more »
