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Apply for BoundBreaker generation 2012

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:46:10 +0000

We’re launching the process to bring forth a new generation of BoundBreakers and thus inviting teams, individuals, hackers, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs to join our program! This year, the program is going to be divided into two parts.

First part

The first lasts for two months through May and June 2012 and serves as a general-purpose startup accelerator program. What you’ll learn in those two months are the indispensable tools of entrepreneurship, wrapping the program up with an open demo day.

We’ll start of with an introductory session, outlining what’s about to happen and opening the floor to any questions that might arise. We’ll give you a sneak preview into the sessions to follow. You’ll cotinue with tactical and strategically positioning your company or idea in your second workshop, as always, learning from and teaching other teams as you progress.

You’ll then prepare an executive summary, critique these with your peers and move on to pitching. After all, when you need funding it’s all about making that VC want you

What comes next is customer development, followed by an intorduction to the so called product matrix. The final two workshops are going to focus on how to gain traction in (and through) the media and lastly your final preparations for the upcoming demo day (in SLO in June).

When demo day comes, you’ll present your company, pitch in front of VCs and get some invaluable feedback concerning your idea, your company, your product. We are going to select a pool of companies to take to the second phase and the top three teams are going to be treated with a waiver of the costs of the second phase of the program.

Throughout the workshops, you’re going to be inspired and given help and advice by some of our collaborators. We profile our colaborators to ensure these are people with experience in the startup world (they have acquired an investment through their own entrepreneurial activities or are themselves a VC).

Second part

The second phase of the project is going to take place between July and September 2012. It’s going to be focused specifically on preparing for trip to Silicon Valley and your meetings with potential investors and partners. Main activities will be trough weekly events and individual coaching. The conclusion of this phase will lead you into the belly of the beast, well on your way to secure an investment.

Second part will be focused on our trip to Silicon Valley and your meetings with potential investors and partners.

What about the money?

The contribution is 950 EUR for the first part of the program and additional 1.950 EUR for the second part, which in addition to workshops, includes individual coaching. Hekovnik will sponsor the entire educational program for the top 3 most promising teams (decision to be made after demo day). The payment must be completed within a month after the program starts. Information day and the first workshop are free of charge.

You can apply until 10.5 23:59 CET at “APPLY“. It is time.

Start something!

BoundBreaker 2011 teams return from Silicon Valley

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:27:46 +0000

Silicon Valley has changed us forever. We grew as a community, we grew as entrepreneurs and we grew as people. Most importantly, however, we can safely say our teams have been infected with the Silicon Valley virus and are already spreading it around. Here are some of their impressions.

Sportifiq: “I’ve always wanted to go to Hollywood and now I got to go to Hollywood for entrepreneurs.”

Pllop: “We made it to the finals of Founder’s showcase in which we were able to get some invaluable feedback and managed to get to know a couple of people that were willing and able to help us along our way.”

Appoteka with their project Shopamine: “We traveled to Silicon Valley to gather feedback about our product in the ‘mecca’ of internet solutions. The experience was unfathomably awesome. For instance: you can attend up to 10 events every day at which startups present their projects. To be honest, we were quite surprised with the high level of these presentations. It’s a cultural shock! Even if our stay was short, we still managed to catch a case of Silicon Valley Fever. The feedback that we got was so valuable, that we changed our service on the spot and iterated throughout the stay. We’re returning with experience, new energy, and crazy ideas. Just wait and see. :)”

We hope you’ll join us next year!

BoundBreaker Office Hours

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:17:58 +0000

We’re testing Office hours concept, so we invite all BoundBreaker companies on 3 Office Hours in December (8., 15. and 22.th).

You can Apply here:

1.st: http://bound-oh1.eventbrite.com/

2nd: http://bound-oh2.eventbrite.com/

3th: http://bound-oh3.eventbrite.com/

See you there.

BoundBreaker team

Global Venture day – APPLY NOW!

admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:21:33 +0000

Bringing South East Europe to Silicon Valley!

This year’s presentation of BoundBreaker companies will be held 7. November 2011. It will be broadcast live from San Francisco to Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event will include a short discussion offering a first hand insight into the minds of Silicon Valley investors to see what they are currently interested in and what the trends to watch out for are.

We invite you to come see the event with us on Monday, 7th November, starting at 20:30 CET in Hotel Mons, Ljubljana, Slovenia or if you are in San Francisco at 12:00 PCT in I/O Ventures, Valencia Street.

Tentative schedule: (CET)

20:50 Direct line from Silicon Valley opens

21:00 Guests’ welcome from Silicon Valley

21:10 Pitches and discussion

Pitches from San Francisco: Yata.me, Pllop, Sportifiq, Esponce, Stress Angel, BeeSmart, Shopamine

Pitches from Slovenia: Optilab, Visionect, Viidea

22:30 End

The event will be held in English and it is supported from Slovene Enterprise Fund and under Go:Global program.

APPLY FOR SLOVENIAN EVENT

Dream big or go home

admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:54:06 +0000

… is the title on the HBO flyer which awaited us in our rooms when we checked in our motel. This is more than appropriate guideline to be part of the Silicon Valley flow. It is here where new technologies are born which shape the future of our world. It is here, where we are all days long conceptualizing, planning, drawing, sketching, pivoting, analyzing, hacking, organizing, visualizing, learning new things, meeting likeminded people, looking for fresh and tasty fruits and occasionally jump in motel’s pool. It is here where we dream big and have fun doing it.

More info coming soon…

2nd generation of BoundBreaker companies go to Silicon Valley

admin — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 09:43:49 +0000

The first 4 of BoundBreaker’s companies (Sportifiq, Appoteka, Avivo, Yata) headed to Silicon Valley tonight. One of them is already there.

We expect many connections, presentations and fruitful meetings with investors and strategic partners.

In the next week 3 other teams (Pllop, StresAngel & BeeSmart) will arrive to Silicon Valley as part of the project as well.

All these teams went through a 2 month (some of them 4 month) preparation program in Slovenia. BoundBreaker team helped them with presentations, pitches and executive summaries.

Win on the global playground!

Vote for BoundBreaker companies

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:36:58 +0000

BoundBreaker companies are preparing for their visit of Silicon Valley coming up this end of October! Three of our teams have applied to Foundershowcase. We wish them all the best, and if you’re ready to give a shout out of support for them, here are their pitches.

MIDS

Pllop

Yata

We thank you all for your effort in making Slovenian startups show what they’re really made of and succeed.

Stay tuned for more updates from BoundBreaker!

BoundBreaker

BoundBreaker Silicon Valley BBQ

admin — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:24:32 +0000

A couple of days ago we had our second annual geek-barbeque. Yes, you are right, it was awesome, and you can feel bad for not coming. We had some great food, played a couple of very unattractive volleyball matches, hung out, talked, discussed and even managed to get some work done. We pitched ideas we are working on to each other and got some very valuable feedback.

This was the last leisurely activity we took part in before we head off to Silicon Valley. It is hard work from now on, but soon it will be time for us to wrap what we’ve been showing for the past year.

Invitation: SV Visit

admin — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:13:43 +0000

Silicon Valley is the largest high-tech capital market and meeting place of high-tech companies in the world. Constantly giving birth to new stars, young entrepreneurs and capital cross paths at every step in the valley, from San Francisco to San Jose. Set on presenting to investors and strategic partners, and with a burning desire for knowing what is happening globally and what the trends are, this Autumn the BoundBreaker team is embarking on our second trip to Silicon Valley.

For more info and application form for trip click HERE.

Start-up house in Silicon Valley

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:54:18 +0000

BoundBreaker’s goal is to establish a permanent base in Silicon Valley to bridge the gap between the Balkans and SV. As a proof of concept we’ve decided to rent a house from September 2011 until November 2011 in Palo Alto or San Francisco. In case of not enough companies we will go in a motel.

The house will host the following people and activities:

- Startups (our main population): BoundBreaker organizes events for them, provides individual mentoring and coaching and connects them to investors and strategic partners.
- Academia: BoundBreaker organizes meetings with professors and startups from Stanford and Berkeley, for them to experience how knowledge commercialization works in that environment.
- Big established companies: BoundBreaker organizes events and personal meetings with bigger companies from Silicon Valley.
- Students: BoundBreaker will provide resources for job acquisition in Silicon Valley and organize and take them to networking events that best suit them.

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Our goal is for participants to taste the spirit of Silicon Valley and bring it back to Slovenia/Croatia. However, the primary goal is for startups and companies to succeed with help/connections/capital from Silicon Valley.

You can see the full program on this link: Startup House (in Slovenian).

BB team