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Seedcamp: a great opportunity for start ups
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I am delighted to announce the launching of Seedcamp, an idea of my friend Saul Klein, that I think is great. Seedcamp will take place in
From all signed-up entrepreneurs, 20 will be chosen to participate in the event. And at the end of the week, 5 of them will be offered an investment of €50K , which will be considered equivalent to a 10% of the company. Entrepreneurs who accept this offer will move to
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karla darocas on July 16, 2007 ·
This is a great idea – it is a shame that it is only for young entrepreneurs.
I am a woman entrepreneur – and I live on the Costa Blanca.
Every day I see “holes” in the marketplace that could be filled with creative businesses… instead people are coming to the coast – and opening businesses that are not unique, that are not first in the market, that don’t recreate any wheels with good twists… and sadly – they go bankrupt in under a year.
The other sad thing that I see here on this coast is youth crime,drugs, boredom, domestic violence and abuse. I have been in talks with the township of Denia (Alicante) to try and start a business and technology school – for all ages – that would teach people about the “exciting” side of business and how to use technology to run your own business – and do it well – with a mentoring programme of some sort. This would be not only good for the economy – but it would be a great social programme to get young people, women and foreigners interested in business and making money – instead of stealing TVs, working like slaves in construction, having unwanted babies, being abused by their partners… etc.
If there was anyway to help get a school or a francise of schools started along this coast – it would really help a lot of people 🙂
Keep up the good work
Karla Darocas
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Rajan on July 15, 2007 ·
Hi Martin,
I think Saul is been doing some great work in enhancing the entreprenuerial ecosystem. Liked his concept of opencoffee house very much. With some efforts I could manage to convince one VC to have one such meet with few fellow entreprenuers in bangalore. And all of us loved it. http://rajan.wordpress.com/2007/04/01/informal-getto-fup/#comments
In the upcoming barcamp we are planning to have a startup collective(http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/BCB4_Startups_Collective), where entreprenuers will share stories and experiences and help each other. One of the thing that is quite a challenge is that it is hard to find open & highly enthusiastic folks like Saul.
Rajan