This Week: Le Web 3
At the last moment, after a short conversation with Dragos Novac, I decided to go to Paris for a few days, to be at Le Web 3, THE place in Europe where all the Internet glitterati meet once a year…:) I hesitated, as at this time I should be working with my partners and team on next year budgets, objectives, strategies, etc…. But this is a kind of “Back to the Future” kind of event that I would not want to miss…
Interesting, they have in parallel with the event a Startup Competition on December 11th, and an Entrepreneur’s Investing Workshop - in partnership with SeedCamp, on December 12th.
I’ll tell you more from there…
Last Week at NetCamp
Great conference, with a lot of positive energy coming from all those web entrepreneurs, and a great line up of speakers. Interesting was also NetStartUp, a section of the event dedicated to a contest of the best web project.
It was revealing to see that from the 5 finalists, 2 were also finalists at the 11 minutes event (but with different projects), and still more interesting the winner was… Vladimir Oane, the same entrepreneur that won the 11 minutes contest was the winner at NetStartUp… What should we understand here? That we are in shortage of entrepreneurs, or that those are the best web entrepreneurs revealed this year?…
Mircea Scarlatescu- Imobiliare-Rezidentiale.ro
Imobiliare-Rezidentiale.ro is an interactive tool for browsing trough new real estate offers in Bucharest and nearby towns. It pinpoints the best buildings, surrounding facilities and access to town resources, all visually present on an interactive map.
Emi Gal- BrainTV
Emi Gal, a 21 year old entrepreneur introduced BrainTV, an online TV station targeting intelligent, educated people.
Mihai Dragan- Codename: Jobs4Bloggers
Jobs4Bloggers is the first online social network aimed at providing bloggers virtual places to work, as well as possible employers with connection to the world’s best bloggers. As George Haber put it, “great idea, lousy monetization scheme” , so…back to the figures Mihai!
LiveRail- Andrei Dunca
The first one to present his project in front of the 11minutes jury was Andrei Dunca, CTO of LiveRail Internet Limited. LiveRail is an online video advertising platform that dynamically matches and serves relevant, click to play video-advertising into online video environments
Presentation of the winner of 11 minutes
Here is the presentation of Vladimir Oane for Big Bang Project, an application that will help users publish different types of content (movies, pictures, blog posts, news, job listing, classifieds etc) on a variety of platforms (like Blogger, YouTube, Wordpress etc) and track the reactions of the content on all the platforms from a central location.
Don’t miss NetCamp
After a long week holidays, I am back with 11minutes.net…:)
I will begin by posting the 5 presentations of the event that took place on November 22th, and then we will roll with news, profiles, interviews and more from the New Europe vibrant web entrepreneurs.
If you are in Bucharest on December 5th, don’t miss NetCamp - a web trends conference that will host an Internet project and idea contest called Net Start-Up. This will be another opportunity to meet young Romanian web entrepreneurs, listen to their ideas and spot investment opportunities. It is interesting to notice that a lot of those entrepreneurs participated also at the 11 minutes event, but with different projects.
And The Winner Is…
Vladimir Oane, Company: Metromind, Project name: Big Bang Project, an application that will help users publish different types of content (movies, pictures, blog posts, news, job listing, classifieds etc) on a variety of platforms (like Blogger, YouTube, Wordpress etc) and track the reactions of the content on all the platforms from a central location.
In the picture, Vladimir receiving the first prize from serial tech entrepreneur George Haber.
I will come back with more details, regarding the presentations, the projects, and the panel of investors. It was a very exciting event!
And The finalists Are…
Here is the list for the top 5 finalists to the first edition of 11 Minutes conference. It was a difficult choice to make, as we had 20 projects and most of them were really interesting. It also took some time as most of the people of jury are traveling and did not have the chance to see the last applications till very late…
So, here we are:
- Sergiu Biris, Company: LiveRail Internet Limited, Project name: LiveRail
- Mihai Dragan, Company: MB Dragan, Project name: Codename Jobs4Bloggers
- Emi Gal, Company: Brainient, Project name: BrainTV
- Vladimir Oane, Company: Metromind, Project name: Big Bang Project
- Mircea Scarlatescu, Company : eSol Expert.IT, project name: Imobiliare-Rezidentiale.ro