Advance Conference – International Web and StartUp Conference in Cologne - September 19 & 20, 2011, Cologne (Germany)

Kai Thierhoff, Founder & CEO of Thierhoff Consulting, presents in his workshop some key aspects how to venture captial for startups. Aspects, Thierhoff is talking about are: Which type of investor ist he right one for my venture? what do i have to live with, if i work with a investor? how do angels work? how …

Nico Lumma, Scholz & Friends talks about social media and startups in his workshop. He starts his presentation with asking whether entrepreneurs really need to learn more about social media. All tech & digital media entrepreneurs should use social media anyhow. “Talking at a startup conference about social media is so 2008.” After a short …

The FounderLeaks sessions are your time to seek personal advice, ask the questions noone asked before and get a taste from the secret sauce of web startup heroes. In the third FounderLeaks session, hosted by Claudia Jericho, three founders are answering the questions of the audience. These three founders are Verena Delius, CEO of Young Internet, Dominik Matyka, …

Is there such thing as a fixed set of rules applying to all successful founders? Some investors reckon there is. But do they have similar rules in mind and provide the same advice to their startups? In this session, three investors present and defend their “founders’ eight” for success. First, Daniel Attalah, Managing Director of Pixum, …

The FounderLeaks sessions are your time to seek personal advice, ask the questions no one asked before and get a taste from the secret sauce of web startup heroes. In the second FounderLeaks session, hosted by Nadia Zaboura, Max Niederhofer, Founder & CEO of Qwerly and Tine Thygesen, Founder & CEO of Everplaces, are answering the questions of the audience. …

Dennis Kämker, Managing Partner at betafabrik, talks about the lean startup approach and why every startup should follow this approach. He learned about the lean startup approach 2 years ago an started to adopt this approach in his work with startups. What is it? It´s a new way of thinking, hoow you build startups. You …

The FounderLeaks sessions are your time to seek personal advice, ask the questions noone asked before and get a taste from the secret sauce of web startup heroes. In the first FounderLeaks session Morten Lund (everbread) is ready to answer the questions of the audience, hosted by Jenny Jung. Question by Fadi Bishara: “Startups reach certain …

Fadi Bishara, presents the approach of his company blackbox, a seed accelerator. Blackbox is looking for patterns of successful founders and their team. Entrepreneurial Enlightment, seeing all the different entrepreneurs from all over the world, was the inspiration of blackbox. 90% of all startups fail. What can we do to increase the chance of success? First Problem …