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Present your start-up to 400+ european VCs

Written on August 1, 2008 – 10:19 am
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

On 1 and 2 December 2008 the second edition of the European Venture Summit will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany. The first edition took place in Lisbon with more than 400 prticipants. If you have a start-up and want to present your company to 360° Capital Partners, Earlybird Venture Capital, Go4Venture, Innogest SGR, Forrester Research GmbH, Northzone Ventures, Biznessence, AGF Private Equity, Quest Management NV, Schneider Electric Ventures and almost every other european VC than you might want to consider applying as a presenting company.

The event might not be as cool & hip as Techcrunch40 but it does have a European focus and almost everything seems to be sponsored by the City of Düsseldorf, Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of North Rhine-Westphalia and Microsoft including the “Gala Evening Dinner”. Free food? I’m there!

Here are some of the other benefits of presenting at the European Venture Summit:

- Complimentary at no charge access to both days of the Summit and the Venture Academy on the prior day.
- Up to 4 pre-arranged One2One Meetings of 20 minutes each with venture capitalists and corporate executives interested in your sector to discuss your business needs .
- Public Presentation in front of a panel of investment and business experts and an audience of venture capitalists and corporate executives (an 8-minute presentation and a 7-minute Q&A session) .
- Quality Interactive Networking in an exclusive environment that focuses on investment and partnership at presentations, lunches, coffee breaks and during the dinner.
- European Visibility on the Summit website once officially-selected to present and in a 2-page Company Profile in the Binder distributed to all 400+ participants from across the continent .
- Intensive Coaching at the Venture Academy on the day before the Summit; the Sunday 30 November 2008, so that you can gain inside strategic knowledge from leading industry serial entrepreneurs about how to promote & present your company to obtain investments and partnerships.

Only 100 companies will be able to attend so register quick if you are based in Europe, have a hot start-up and might consider getting funding in the future.

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Arrange a meeting for your next life…beg your pardon?

Written on June 3, 2008 – 5:42 pm
Eric Bun, business innovation consultant

Dragon’s Den is a TV program which enables entrepreneurs to present their start-ups to VC’s and of course for the next Webbers - who’re happy to meet start-ups and new business ideas - a must see. Especially when someone is presenting a business plan which relates to social media, communities and next web functionalities and this happened yesterday. An entrepreneur presented nextlifemeeting.com which is a social website for people who want to meet their counterparts in their next life

NextLifeMeeting.com is a website for people who believe in reincarnation and want to make an appointment with like-minded in the future. You can define your profile on the website, define your profile of your past life……What? Wait a moment…..Ow, I see, if you follow the course at mypastlife.com you can uncover your personal life and profile of your past life…. Anyway, after you filled in your past life experience you can specify your focus in your past and future life and based on this focus you can make an attempt to meet each other in the nextlife. (As you would understand, you won’t be able to remember your password and profile, so focus points should enable you to keep your appointment in your next life – I guess).

As a I’m not an adherent of the faith related to reincarnation I don’t see the added value of social communities and social media for this project. And to be honest, I fully agreed with the VC’s who choose to not invest in the idea because it is simply worthless. Besides the architecture, interface and content (mix of Dutch and English) leaves much to desired. Therefore, credits to the creative brains behind the idea, negative kudos to the executor. I don’t want to meet you in this and next life at all.

next life, reincarnation, start-up

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