Back in Karlsruhe!

It has been one week now since the Silicon Valley participants arrived back in Germany.

The first change has been made by installing a new model “Pioniergarage build”. Members of the pioniergarage can get togther weekly here and can really build their own startups.

In this weeks tuesday session Daniel was sharing some experiences we made during the silicon valley trip before we welcomed our special guest Andreas Sperber from Gloveler. He introduced us to the business model and gave us useful tips for projectmanagment.

Daniel telling the pioneers about our silicon valley experiences!

STARTup Live RhineValley – Great Success

Karlsruhe’s first STARTup Live RhineValley event was a great success. 60 participants from whole Europe (Germany, Turkey, Spain, Romania, Austria) worked hard on their ideas during the weekend 23rd – 25th Sept 2011.

Supported by Vollack, IBM Global Entrepreneur, KIC InnoEnergy, CIE, Kizoo, IHK Karlsruhe and Hoepfner, the participants spent an all-inclusive weekend in Vollack’s fine building. Everything inclusive: mentors (thanks to CyberForum), ideas, food, drinks, RedBull (essential) and a lot of work!

Check out the pictures: Facebook Gallery.

Research to Business – Live

Together with CyberForum and the Innovation Management Department of KIT, we started a new initiative: Research to Business – Live.

Since there’s a huge potential of innovation projects at KIT, we decided to try generating business models based on some of the available cutting edge technologies. The aim is, of course, founding new start-ups.

So far we managed to:

• choose one of five technologies – a new method for desalination of sea water;
• put together a team of four pioneers: Axel Grünert, Daniel Reinhardt, Stefan Marinov and Christina Horn;
• schedule a meeting with the inventors of the technology in order to introduce it to the students.

The team will also participate in STARTup Live RhineValley! If you want to meet them, register here!

Update 08.09.2011

The meeting with the inventors went very well. The technology is really sick and complicated but everybody got a basic understanding.

Update 13.09.2011

Yesterday, we worked on the fundamentals of the business model. On Thursday, we’ll continue with mentors of the Cyberforum (www.cyberforum.de).

Press:

• Baden TV starting around 9:30 (in German)
• Article on www.Business-On.de (in German)
• Article on www.uni-online.de (in German)
• Article on www.kit.edu (in German)

STARTup Live RhineValley

• You want to find new teammates for your startup?
• You have an idea and want to get feedback and improve it?
• You would like to be co-founder and you’re looking for ideas?
• You want to make new contacts to investors and experienced entreprenurs?

For the first time this year STARTup Live RhineValley takes place in Karlsruhe. A weekend with “top-speed entrepreneurship”. The successful event enters the next round and once again many great ideas will be presented, venture teams will be formed and new start-ups will arise.

• When: 23. – 25. september
• Where: Vollack, Karlsruhe
• Participants: 100 persons
• Target group: entrepreneurs, investors, business angels, people with business ideas, people motivated to start a company
• Language: englisch/german

For more information visit: www.startuplive.in/rhinevalley

General information sheet

If you want to engage as mentor, sponsor, participant or media partner please contact:

Sebastian Richter
sebastian.richter@pioniergarage.de
+49 177 856 63 78