From Bucharest to London, from Silicon Valley to Ljublijana, great tech hubs help web entrepreneurs to power up their businesses. What are the differenes, the benefits and the perspectives of each of them ?

[speaker]vladimir-oane[/speaker]
[speaker2]bostjan-spetic[/speaker2]
[speaker3]ramu-yalamanchi[/speaker3]
[speaker4]tony-kypreos[/speaker4]
[speaker5]vlad-stan[/speaker5]
[speaker6]radu-ticiu[/speaker6]

[time]17:45 — 18:15[/time]

Any startup wants to get promoted as loud and often as possible, for getting faster to their clients or investors. Wondering how to do that without annoying anyone ?

[speaker]mike-butcher[/speaker]

[time]17:15 — 17:45[/time]

Bad Sales can Kill a web service or company. Felix will give you hands-on information on how to avoid the most common mistakes and start selling efficiently.

[speaker]felix-fidelsberger[/speaker]

[time]16:45 — 17:15[/time]

Local business angels and venture capital investors talk about their priorities when putting the money on the table: how do they evaluate the people, the vision and the business?

[speaker6]cristina-alexandru[/speaker6]
[speaker2]ondrej-bartos[/speaker2]
[speaker3]katy-turner[/speaker3]
[speaker4]marius-ghenea[/speaker4]
[speaker5]alexandre-almajeanu[/speaker5]

[time]15:30 — 16:00[/time]

Having an idea is one thing and having a company is another. Being in a suitable position for investment by an external investor, particular a VC firm, can be a challenge for start-ups. This discussion will focus on the relatively easy steps to ensure that you and your company are suitable for investment

[speaker]giles-hawkins[/speaker]

[time]15:00 — 15:30[/time]

Changing your lifestyle and focus, if only to do what we believe could change the world, is the first decision of a long series of risks that entrepreneurs take. Although bootstrapping a company is difficult, it is an extremely rewarding experience, if only for the lessons learned.

[speaker]laurent-feral-pierssens[/speaker]
[time]14:30 – 15:00[/time]

Getting from product to customers can be a very expensive endeavor. Customer development shouldn’t be a black art and you should apply it all the time to find out your customers needs, to create a pricing strategy or to decide on what to build next.

[speaker]vladimir-oane[/speaker]

[time]12:30 — 13:00[/time]

What is a startup and what are the pitfalls in bringing one to life? How can you avoid a painful, embarrassing, expensive death of your dream? What resources can you access and what is the best exit? Find all of this out from Mark Randall Adobe’s Chief Strategist for Digital Media, a silicon valley angel investor and a serial entrepreneur on hiatus. Mark’s career conceiving, designing and marketing innovative technology spans nearly twenty years and three successful high-tech start-ups. He has fielded over a dozen world-class products which combined have sold over a million units and won a total of 14 Product of the Year, 12 Best of NAB, 7 Best of Comdex, 2 PC Magazine Technical Excellence awards, and one Emmy award. He also can do some cool magic tricks

[time]12:00 – 12:30[/time]
[speaker]mark-randall[/speaker]

[speaker]felix-petersen[/speaker]
[time]11:30 – 12:00[/time]

Going international is not just a question about how to advertise your business even more. For each new market you’ve got to understand your new customer, set up distribution channels and sales strategies, finance your expansion, while keeping base costs as low as possible. Kris will present his own approach, based on his experience with ERPLY.

[speaker]kris-hiiemaa[/speaker]

[time]10:30 — 11:00[/time]