Following on the positive experience of mentoring at Springboard, I had the pleasure of being invited to mentor at yet another accelerator run by Jon Bradford. ignite100 is characterized as an evolution of The Difference Engine, but I see it more as a whole different ballgame.
Startups graduating from ignite100 receive £100.000 in convertible debt on top of the £5000 per founder received at the beginning. And you get all this cash while being mentored by some of Europe’s finest.
ignite100 takes place in Newcastle upon Tyne in NE England.
Applications close on 17 July 2011 at 2359 PST so waste no time and apply now!
I was fortunate enough to meet Dan Feld when I organized Startup Weekend Bucharest last year. He is definitely a person to follow if you’re in the Internet industry and I’m happy to say that he’s going to be visit Bucharest again.
Dan is giving a keynote presentation about Cycle of innovation, Industry standards and Building new IT products at the Polytechnics University of Bucharest on Friday 13.05 at 17:00, in amphitheater EC004.
Dan Feld is the Regional Sales Manager EEMEA for Amazon Web Services and has a background of CTO positions working with US corporations and startups.
If you’re in Bucharest you should definitely stop by and see Dan’s talk. See you there!
First Startup Weekend event in Romania (with me being an event advisor / organizer) is happening in Bucharest on 26-28 of November 2010. The event is going to take place at Bucharest Hubb, the online business incubator of the seed fund I advise, Seedmoney.
For those new to the Startup Weekend concept (is there anyone who doesn’t know it? 
) Startup Weekend is a 54 hour event. Everything starts on Friday evening, with the participants pitching ideas in front of the audience. Teams are formed on spot, based on the personal preference of every participant. Building the businesses continues on Saturday and Sunday, with the help of a hand-picked group of mentors. The event ends on Sunday evening, when the jury decides the winning project.
Expect to see in the room during the weekend some of the promising Romanian entrepreneurs doing their magic in creating great Internet startups. The group of speakers, mentors and jury is formed of both local and foreign entrepreneurs, advisors and investors.
The winning team is going to be in the books for getting a seed investment from Seedmoney. On top of that my startup consulting company, Cronian Labs, it going to help the winning project with customer development and marketing strategy.
Register now on http://bucharest.startupweekend.org/!