The event for entrepreneurial minds
May 13, 2016 @WU Vienna
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Entrepreneurship Avenue is Europe’s largest student-focused startup event series. It is a journey through entrepreneurship that starts with a series of four Lab sessions and ends with a dynamic Conference. Designed to inspire, encourage and support young people to join the startup scene, Avenue connects students with founders, investors and mentors, providing the foundation that turns ideas into viable businesses. A NOTE FROM THE ORGANIZERS BASTIAN RÜTHER Head Organizer
FLORIAN OTT Head Organizer
„Dear friends, A very warm welcome from the organizers of the grande finale of the Entrepreneurship Avenue. In the last several months, we have given our best to organize the biggest European startup event series for students. Together with our team, we are a group of motivated SIMC Master students dedicating a lot of voluntary time to make Avenue happen. In partnership with ECN, we have the vision to show all students the many impactful opportunities offered by the startup scene. The Conference is YOUR chance to dive into the startup scene and figure out what‘s best for YOU.
We want to encourage you to take the first step and create value for yourself. Be open, talk to inspiring and experienced role models, leave your comfort zone and do what you love. Our greatest hope is that you take home the following message: “A person who thinks he can and a person who thinks he can‘t are both right. You can choose which you want to be.”
We believe that the whole is more than just the sum of its Florian and Bastian parts. Therefore, the overall goal of the Conference is to bring all important members of the startup ecosystem together. At With this in mind, we wish you a great day, a lot of fun, this very special event we want to motivate our participants new insight, inspiration, motivation and new friends. with inspiring keynotes, extend their skill sets in our 12 workshops and provide them with awesome impactful job opportunities. At the same time we offer startups a free recruiting platform and provide investors with deal flow opportunities. Last but not least: our partners, tremendous supporters of the startup ecosystem, gain access to a valuable platform.
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Job Chat After-Show-Party
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Agenda
Welcome Breakfast 08:00-09:30, LC Forum
Opening Ceremony 09:30-10:15, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Welcome from the Organizers
Welcome from Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Rector of WU
Alexa Wesner, US Ambassador,”Why does the world need entrepreneurs?”
Keynote #1 10:15-10:40, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Katharina Klausberger, Shpock
“Austrian Success Story”
Keynote #2 10:40-11:40, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Stephanie Cox, chancen:reich
With special guests Matthias Reisinger and Leo Widrich
“Impactful Entrepreneurship”
Keynote #3 11:40-12:00, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Bianca Gfrei, kiweno
“Starting Right after University”
Lunch 12:00-13:30, Forum
Keynote #4
Side Event Panel: Successful Startup Ecosystems Thomas Funke, RKW-German Productivity and Innovation Centre Dr. Gabriele Tatzberger, Vienna Business Agency Georg Fürlinger, Austrian Institute of Technology Lénárd Horgos, Hungarian Business Angel Network (HBAN) Matt Kuppers, Startup Manufactury Herb de Vries, University of Canterbury
13:30-13:55, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Christian Rebernik, NUMBER26
“How was your Shark Tank Funding?”
DON‘T FORGET
Keynote #5 11:40-12:00, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Chris Maslowski, Movinga
“How to Protect your Business Idea”
Keynote #6
to participate in our unique and interactive workshops! (more on page 14/15) Also be sure to check out the Job Fair in Festsaal 2 (more on page 18)
11:40-12:00, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
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Christian Nagel, Earlybird
“How to Decide which Startups will Become Successful and which Won’t”
Feed the Sharks Live 14:40-15:40, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Markus Lang, Pioneers Ventures
Christian Nagel, Earlybird
Hansi Hansmann, AAIA
Michael Altrichter, AAIA
Oliver Holle, Speedinvest
Coffee break
Side Event: Investors Coffee
15:40-16:30, Forum
15:40-16:30, Clubraum
Panel Discussion: Options for Students in the Startup Scene 16:30 - 17:25, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Dejan Jovicevic, Brutkasten
Elena Margulis, Gründerszene
Simon Kronenberg, Soundboks
Anna Hülpüsch, Eve
Keynote #7 17:25-18:00, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Wolfgang Fasching
“If YOU want it, YOU will do it! - The Power of Thoughts”
Pitch Award 18:00-19:00, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Closing Ceremony 19:00-19:45, Main Stage – Festsaal 1
Alumni Talk
Desiree Zottl, Gatherer
Karl Edelbauer, Hokify
Award Ceremony
CONVINCE THE JURY AND WIN! 100-day Intensive Start-up Camp worth €6000 from INiTS
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€2000 Cash Prize by BDO and Erste Bank Admission to the i2B Business Angel Programme by HK Incube €2000 Legal Consulting by BDO and Erste Bank €5000 Media Promotion by Der Brutkasten and more...
Networking with Aperitivo and Drinks 19:45- , Forum
After-show Party 21:30- , Das Campus
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Entrepreneurship Avenue is organized and brought to you by…
SIMConnect The student organization of WU’s SIMC master program SIMConnect aims to build the community around the MSc in Strategy, Innovation & Management Control and connects its students with the program’s alumni, faculty and external partners. The organization offers a wide variety of activities and services, such as the organization of workshops, speeches and trainings with corporate
partners , as well as the hosting of social events for the active student and alumni communities. Furthermore, SIMConnect represents the students‘ voice to the faculty to co-create an outstanding master program. MORE INFO @ WWW.SIMC.AT
ECN The Entrepreneurship Center Network The Entrepreneurship Center Network (ECN) is an inter-university platform aimed at raising awareness of entrepreneurship among students. The ECN connects students from different universities and disciplines and provides them with startup related know-how and useful tools.
The mission is to sustainably increase the number of startups out of universities. Member universities are: Akademie der bildenden Künste, BOKU, Meduni, TU, Vetmed Uni and WU. MORE INFO @ WWW.ECNETWORK.AT/PORTAL
Speakers At Entrepreneurship Avenue, we are blessed to rely on an incredible community. Here you will find some of the leading founders, investors and experts of the Austrian startup scene and beyond.
Daniel Cronin, Austrian Startups Host Daniel, the “Pitch Doctor”, is a co-founder and board member of Austrian Startups, a non-profit initiative to increase the visibility and impact of the Austrian startup scene, while fostering the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Daniel is a passionate entrepreneur, mentor and presenter who is back to share his talents at this year’s Conference!
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Rector WU Wien Welcome Speech Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger completed her doctorate in information technologies at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) in 1990. In 1996, she received her venia docendi in applied information technologies from TU Vienna, where she worked as an associate professor until 2001. She has been Professor for Gender & Diversity in Organizations at WU since 2002 and has published over 350 papers on this topic. She has been Rector of WU since October 1, 2015, and is the first woman to ever hold this position.
Alexa Wesner, US Ambassador to Austria Welcome Speech Ambassador Alexa Wesner was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Reston, Virginia. Ms. Wesner graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a B.A. degree in Biology. In 1997, she founded HireTECH, a recruiting and consulting company focused on high tech start-ups, also serving as President and CEO. In 2000, she founded her second company, Recruiting Labs, a web-based recruiting venture. After a successful career as a high-tech chief executive and entrepreneur, Ms. Wesner turned her attention to politics and community development as both a fundraiser and a hands-on entrepreneur driving progressive causes on national, regional, and local levels.
Katharina Klausberger,
Shpock
Keynote Katharina Klausberger is a Vienna-based entrepreneur, CEO and co-founder of Shpock--the SHop in your POCKet. She earned her PhD in Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. With more than 10 million users and 70 team members, the flea market app for beautiful things is one of the most popular shopping apps in Europe.
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Chris Maslowski,
Movinga
Keynote Chris Maslowski is a graduate of the Otto Beisheim School of Management. With a fellow student he founded Movinga--Europe’s leading online moving service. Last year, his company closed a funding round with renowned investors like Earlybird and other Business Angels. The startup from Berlin collected 25 Mio. $ in this round. Today Movinga has more than 300 employees and continues to grow.
Christian Rebernik,
NUMBER26
Keynote Christian was born in Vienna, Austria and studied economics and informatics in Vienna. Before he joined NUMBER26 in the position of CTO, he founded his own company and worked as a CTO for Zanox, Parship and Immobilien.net. On top of this, Christian acts as a Mentor and Coach to several startups during their founding phase and he consulted the United Nations World Food Programme in the creation of the Share the Meal app.
Christian Nagel, Earlybird Keynote Dr. Christian Nagel is Co-Founder and Partner of Earlybird. Christian has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial and investment experience. He is currently on the boards of Auctionata (Berlin), Bonagora (Berlin), Cashboard (Berlin), LiquidM (San Francisco/Berlin), Number26 (Berlin), Smava (Berlin) and Versus (Berlin). Christian was previously a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. Inc. focusing on restructuring, strategy and M&A projects within various industries.
Wolfgang Fasching, Athlete and Motivational Speaker Keynote Since his time as participant and winner of the prestigious non-stop cycling race “Race across America”, Wolfgang Fasching has been aware of the great importance of mental strength. He completed his course of study to become an academic mental coach and certified Life and Social Coach. Now, this very successful speaker is here to help Entrepreneurship Avenue participants find this strength within themselves!
Bianca Gfrei, kiweno
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Keynote Bianca Gfrei is the founder and CEO of kiweno, the leading service to offer selftests for food intolerances in the DACH region. She started her entrepreneurial career at only 24 years of age and was elected “Female Entrepreneur of the Year” by the WKO in 2016. kiweno’s mission is to empower personal healthcare via at-home blood tests and appealing visualisation of medical data. Recently, kiweno received a record-breaking €7 million investment on “2 Minuten 2 Millionen”
Stephanie Cox, chancen:reich Keynote Born in Australia and raised in Austria, Stephanie Cox graduated from the University of Utrecht. She is an inspirational founder, facilitator and coach. Her current project, chancen:reich, is the first jobfair for refugees in Austria. In recent years, she has also started other social entrepreneurship projects, like Road to Courage or TEDx Donausinsel. She was also invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Shapers Network.
Leo Widrich, Buffer Guest Speaker Leo is a graduate of the Warwick School of Business and has made the jump to Silicon Valley with tremendous success. He is the co-founder and COO of Buffer-a social media management tool for marketers and agencies. Ultimately, Buffer is a better way to share on social media.
Matthias Reisinger, Impact Hub Guest Speaker Matthias is a graduate of the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. Matthias brought his exceptional entrepreneurial experience and passion for making a difference to Impact Hub, where he co-founded the Vienna chapter. Matthias is also a member of the Global Shapers Community.
Simon Kronenberg,
Soundboks
Panel Simon is the VP Sales at SOUNDBOKS, a Copenhagen based Y Combinator hardware startup. Simon was a key player in orchestrating their recent crowdfunding campaign, in which they raised close to $800k, making it Denmark‘s most successful Kickstarter campaign ever. Before joining SOUNDBOKS, Simon interned for companies such as Bosch, Pepsi and Google.
Dejan Jovicevic, Der Brutkasten Panel Dejan is a visionary digital intrapreneur, startup enthusiast and media manager. Within the „Die Presse“ / WirtschaftsBlatt Media Group, he cofounded DerBrutkasten.com, Austria‘s leading platform for startups and digital innovation. Dejan began his career as a M&A and transaction lawyer in a global law firm. A subsequent job in a leading media company sparked his passion for the branch and he has been working in top-management positions for some of Austria‘s weekly and daily newspapers ever since.
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Elena Margulis,
Gründerszene
Panel Elena was first exposed to the startup scene during her studies in Vienna and has continued gaining experience in this area ever since. Elena began working for the digital economy publishing house Vertical Media GmbH, known for its online magazine Gründerszene in 2013 as Head of Business Development for the Gründerszene Job Board.
Anna Hülpüsch,
Eve
Panel Anna is a SIMC alumni and started her own business „Eve“ right after her master studies. Eve is a high-quality beauty app that inspires women to discover new styles and products. The app has been featured by Apple as best new app in over 100 countries and gained more than 230.000 users within the first 3 months after its launch. Between her master and bachelor studies, Anna worked in a mobile startup and experienced first hand what it’s like to start and grow a business.
Karl Edelbauer, hokify Panel Karl founded his startup hokify during his master program SIMC at WU Vienna with two friends. hokify is a free smartphone app for simple job and candidate search where jobseekers can discover relevant jobs nearby and apply with one swipe. Only recently Karl and his team have closed a 1 million euro investment deal with Michael Altrichter during the startup TV show 2 minutes 2 million.
Desiree Zottl,
gatherer
Panel Desirée Zottl is the CEO and iOS developer of gatherer. Desirée used her background in business and extensive iOS development experience to launch gatherer after graduating from FH St. Pölten. gatherer is the easiest way to arrange appointments with friends and colleagues, utilizing instant notifications, a smart calendar and automated invites.
Theresa Breitsching,
Der Brutkasten
Workshop Theresa is Editor in Chief of „Der Brutkasten“. She knows the Austrian startup community like almost nobody else in the media industry. That’s why she has already come through more than a thousand startup ideas in the past years. Besides her job as a journalist, she writes books and works on her own ideas, like www.elibrix.com.
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Andreas Danzer, Der Brutkasten Workshop Andi Danzer went to law school, but then decided that journalism is where he wants to be. He started his career, working for the newspapers “Die Presse” and “Wirtschaftsblatt”. Since October he is a member of the “Brutkasten”-Team. Furthermore, he is a passionate musician and plays in a band called “21 Stories”.
Larisa Stanescu, SmartNinja Workshop Online marketeer by profession and procrastinator by heart, Larisa has gathered over 5 years experience in marketing in an advertising agency, switching then to consulting startups at the academic incubator INiTS. She cofounded the Girls n‘ Code initiative and is currently advocating for programming at SmartNinja and getting into Python.
Martin Melcher,
SmartNinja
Workshop Martin Melcher is an information technology graduate of the Graz University of Technology. In his career he worked on multimedia information systems and for several global companies in the engineering, law and finance sector as systems architect, project manager and technology consultant. In 2006 Martin started his own consultancy business and advised clients in the planning and implementation of web based systems.
Georg Russegger, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Workshop Dr. Georg Russegger (AT) works at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (vice rectorate art | research, knowledge tansfer). As part of the Austrian KnowledgeTransfer-Centre East (WTZ Ost) he is project-manager for the fields art, artsbased research, humanities, social and cultural sciences. For the Amsterdambased organisation ELIA (The European League of Institutes of the Arts) he worked as a project lead in the field of „cultural and artistic entrepreneurship“.
Frowin Lutz,
Spielplatz.cc
Workshop Frowin holds a degree in Businnes Adminstration from Innsbruck University. Brand Management for Kraft Jacobs Suchard was his first step in work career 1999. In 2002 started his entrepreneurial career as co-founder of spielplatz.cc, a Mobile Marketing startup and served as Managing director until the closing of the company in 2011. As a co-founder he is developing La Sauveté seminar center, in Galez - Hautes Pyrénées, France. Aside his activity as an entrepreneur Frowin works as business consultant.
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Matthias Lechle,
Spielplatz.cc
Workshop Matthias holds a degree in Civil Engineering (HTWK Leipzig) and in Business Administration (LFU Innsbruck). He started his career as an engineer 1992 at ATP Architekten & Ingenieure. In 1999 he moved to New York to work for the The Economist, following Springer & Jacoby Advertising Elephant Seven Interactive Agency, Hamburg. In 2002, he started his entrepreneurial career as co-founder of spielplatz. cc, a Mobile Marketing startup and served as Managing director until the closing of the company in 2011. Since 2012 he is working as managing director and co-founder of iwmb.now – digitale kommunikation.
Peter Vandor, Social Impact Award Workshop Peter Vandor is senior researcher and co-founder of the Social Entrepreneurship Center at the WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business). In his position, he has been leading 50+ collaboration projects with organizations such as CERN, UNDP, the European Commission, and the Roland Berger Foundation. His research interests lie in the areas of social entrepreneurship, migrant entrepreneurship and innovation. Peter is also founder and academic director of the Social Impact Award, a learning program and idea competition for budding social entrepreneurs in 10 countries. He also initiated the first academic and award winning course on Social Entrepreneurship in Austria.
Philipp Albrecht,
HappyMed
Workshop Philipp founded his first company with 19 years, failed two times, sold the third one and is now working on his newest venture „HappyMed“ to make medical treatments more pleasant for patients.
Theresa Steininger, Wohnwagon Workshop Theresa is CEO and co-founder of Wohnwagon. The start-up is dedicated to building and developing independent and natural possibilities for autark living and was the first sucessfull crowdinvesting campaign in Austria.
Matt Kuppers, Startup Manufactory Workshop Matt Kuppers is the CEO and Founder of Startup Manufactory, a London-based boutique startup consultancy. He also co-founded MenuSpring (now eetapp), UKs most popular restaurant dishes search engine, featured in the best British Startup 100 ranking in 2013 according to startups.co.uk and currently valued at £5m. During his time at MenuSpring, Matt was heavily involved with SEO, digital marketing, and product development management. He has been working in the startup industry since 2008. Over the past years, he advised more than 250 startups and taught entrepreneurship on business school level to over 100 students.
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Christian Frantal,
Wohnwagon
Workshop Christian is the director in charge of assembly and also responsible for creative planning & development. Christian brings a wealth of experience in construction, design and crafts. He feels spaces, has a great feeling for aesthetics and specializes in planning.
Florian Steinhart,
HK Incube
Workshop Florian Steinhart holds Master degrees in law and business administration along with a PhD in Iaw. He is a legal expert in the field of corporate and commercial law and has been engaged in advising start-ups from the pre-foundation phase through financing rounds till the successful exit. Florian is the co-founder of the legal incubator HK Incube.
Matthias Schmitzer,
BDO
Workshop Matthias Schmitzer is Manager Financial Advisory Services at BDO Austria in Vienna. For 5 years, he has supported businesses, during various growth stages, in implementing their strategies.
Florian Resch,
aws Gr端nderfonds
Workshop Florian joined aws Gr端nderfonds (aws Founders Fund) in 2015 as an Investment Manager. Prior to his appointment he was in charge of business development activities at Jollydays. He also gained operating experience as the co-founder of a web start-up (sportle.me). Until 2014, Florian Resch spent four years working in M&A advisory, including for Ernst & Young. He studied international economic law in Vienna and Stanford.
Karl Biedermann, aws Gr端nderfonds Workshop Karl Biedermann joined aws High Technology Funding (HTF) in 2011 as an Investment Manager. For Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH he is evaluating companies in early stages if they can/should be subsidized. Prior to his appointment he was a Key Account Manager (Industry Segment) at CSC (Computer Science Corporation and before that at voestalpine and Henkel. He studied Computer Sciences (Dipl. Ing.) in Graz and holds an MBA(business) and an MSc degree (in Communications) from Krems.
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Workshops
Get involved in interactive workshops, spanning a wide variety of topics. This is your chance to hear from industry experts, develop your skills or learn new ones you’ve always dreamed of!
Media Communication • How to Work with Press and get the Most out of PR Theresa Breitsching and Andreas Danzer, Der Brutkasten 10:00-11:30, Galerie Convincing the media industry of yourself and your startup takes knowledge of the industry itself, as well as forming the right strategy and the skill to use the right tools. The goal of the workshop is to pass on a “how-to-guide” for founders, who are ready to talk to the press about their startup, including best practices examples of creative and successful cases.
Coding ABC • Why Entrepreneurs Should Learn How to Code Larisa Stanescu and Martin Melcher, Smartninja 10:00-11:30, Clubraum Coding has become essential for every startup and entrepreneur to know. Through this workshop, the attendees will get familiar with the various coding languages available and the best alternatives when it comes to applications, programs and software programs.
Digital Business Modeling • How to Disrupt Markets and Seize Emerging Opportunities SAP University Alliances, SAP 11:00-13:00, Infopoint In the course of digital transformation, business models become more and more important. Therefore, companies utilize the benefits of digital enablers to build innovative business models. In this interactive workshop, you will get to know this new toolset and you will have the chance to learn how to develop new business models for a specific case.
Creative Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurial Skills in Culture and Art Georg Russeger, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien 11:30-13:00, Galerie The workshop will combine practical elements, projects and best practices of creative entrepreneurship. There will be a special focus on community-driven entrepreneurship such as open design, maker communities and how creative models such as „design thinking“ infiltrate the entrepreneurship culture.
Dealing with Failure • What can go Wrong and What to Learn from it Frowin Lutz and Matthias Lechle, Spielplatz.cc 11:30-13:00, Clubraum Based on their startup “spielplatz.cc” the founders Matthias Lechle and Frowin Lutz will elaborate, with the participants, on ten years of a company life cycle (from founding, early stage, success on market until the closure) in different aspects, emphasizing entrepreneurial qualities necessary to keep a company successfully running for years.
Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship and Idea Generation Peter Vandor, SIA-Impact HUB 13:00-14:30, Clubraum Over the last decades, social entrepreneurship has gained considerable traction. The workshop on will provide you with a theoretic and practical perspective on this new phenomenon. After a 101 on the core definitions and perspectives on social entrepreneurship we will walk you through a fast-pitched ideation process, helping you to generate your own idea for a social venture.
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Sell to Succeed • How to Boost your Sales Philipp Albrecht, HappyMed 13:00-14:30, Galerie Most startups fail because they cannot sell. If you run a startup you need to be selling yourself, the vision, a business plan and a not existing or a still crappy product. This skillset will decide if your company lives or dies. Philipp Albrecht, CEO and co-founder of HappyMed, will give you fascinating insights how sales helped him to build his hardware company with limited financing.
MVPs, Product and User Lead Development • How to Build a Killer Product Matt Kuppers, Start-Up Manufactory London 15:00-16:30, Galerie In this workshop, Matt Kuppers will elaborate on the Lean Startup approach and also walk the audience through the MVP development process usually applied by product-based startups. He will further give tips on how to find a tech co-founder and what to look out for when hiring a CTO. He will also provide lots of resources where to find freebies for tech startups.
Autarky Workshop • How to Implement Self-Sufficient Living in the City Theresa Steininger and Christian Frantal, Wohnwagon 15:00-16:30, Infopoint Climate change, over-utilization of resources, global warming – the fact is, our current approach is not a sustainable path for the future. What’s the ecologically friendly alternative? The team from Wohnwagon will show us how to live with autarky—implementing selfsufficient living in the city. With their invention, the Wohnwagon, living is reduced to the most basic human needs. Their passion is bringing together independence, a natural feeling of living and space to think and breathe freely--the ultimate luxury. It’s time to rethink living!
Dealing with Failure • What can go Wrong and What to Learn from it Florian Steinhart, HK Incube 15:00-16:30, Infopoint Get an overview of the classic process of a business angel/venture capital transaction. Learn about the most common provisions of the underlying transaction agreements (e.g. liquidation preference, anti-dilution, good/bad leaver, drag/tag along, consent rights, noncompete).
Business Modeling and Financial Planning • How to Plan the Heart of every Business Matthias Schmitzer, BDO 16:30-18:00, Galerie Every new venture starts out with a great idea. The path for success is characterized by commitment, determination and, ultimately, achievement of objectives. Mapping out and writing down these objective in a formal business plan determines the goals and thus provides the basis for performance measurement. In this interactive workshop you will be provided guidance for creating a business plan and advice to avoid common pitfalls.
Fund your Startup • Getting Ready for Investors & Public Subsidies Florian Resch and Karl Biedermann, aws Gründerfonds 16:30-18:00, Clubraum After a quick introduction of the aws founders fund (aws Gründerfonds) and aws HiTecFunding, the workshop will focus on investment readiness, examining how startups should prepare for approaching investors. Topics include how an appealing pitch deck should be structured, what information startups should disclose, what investors expect from entrepreneurs and what entrepreneurs can expect from investors. Additionally you will be provided with an overview on public subsidies in Austria, requirements for application and insight to the application process.
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Lab Re-cap 4 LAB sessions and 4 complementary workshops at 5 different universities 507 students from 50 different universities 38 student startup teams 15 speakers and 36 mentors The Entrepreneurship Avenue LAB series addresses students who are interested in learning how to find, develop and pitch a business idea. It provides the perfect opportunity to get to know what it takes to start a company and experience entrepreneurship hands-on: developing and refining an idea, finding the right team, getting out of the building and connecting with just the right mentors and supporters. Over the past two months 500 students from 50 different universities have taken part in this wonderful journey. The can-do attitude and
diverse backgrounds of the participants provided a unique learning and working atmosphere for everyone involved and I wish you all keep up the entrepreneurial Avenue spirit! Today we can witness the big showdown: the best student startup teams will show you how far they’ve come and compete for the Avenue Pitch Award 2016. Good luck to the finalists get the most out of it! Stay entrepreneurial,
Pitch Award Jury
RUDOLF DÖMÖTÖR, DIRECTOR ECN
Constantin Bergmann-Korn, Axel Springer Plug and Play Jakob Detering,
Impact Hub Vienna
Thomas Ecker, tecnet equity Michael Eisler,
startup300
Carlos Fernández de Retana, INiTS Stefan Kreppel, FFG Josef Mantl, JMC Patrick Prokesch,
i5invest
Rafael Rasinger, WKO Advantage Austria (WKO) Laurenz Simbruner, aws Gründerfonds Tina Sperl, Erste Bank Verena Winter, BDO
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Feed the Sharks is the ultimate test for startups. Do the founders have what it takes to pitch in front of a jury of hungry sharks and receive brutally-honest feedback without being torn apart?
The Sharks Markus Lang,
Pioneers Ventures
Markus is a passionate entrepreneur with a background in business and law. Prior to his involvement in the Austrian startup ecosystem, he worked as a project manager in one of Austria’s largest event companies and as a consultant & coach. He co-founded the crowd logistics startup checkrobin.com and managed the company for three years before joining the Austrian early-stage venture capital firm Pioneers Ventures. His mission is to support outstanding European digital startups with smart money in order to create big successes together.
Christian Nagel,
Earlybird
Dr. Christian Nagel is Co-Founder and Partner of Earlybird. Christian has more than 20 years of entrepreneurial and investment experience. He is currently on the boards of Auctionata (Berlin), Bonagora (Berlin), Cashboard (Berlin), LiquidM (San Francisco/Berlin), Number26 (Berlin), Smava (Berlin) and Versus (Berlin). Prior to founding Earlybird in 1997, Christian, together with a group of investors, acquired various companies from the Treuhandanstalt (the former East-German state holding) and gained operational experience. Christian was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. Inc. focusing on restructuring, strategy and M&A projects within various industries.
Hansi Hansmann,
AAIA
Johann „Hansi“ spent most of his career in leading positions of international pharmaceutical companies. After a management buyout, he successfully built up his own pharmaceutical company and sold it in 2003. Since then, he has been an active investor and business angel with a focus on web and healthtech companies in Austria, Germany and Spain.
Michael Altrichter,
AAIA
After founding paysafecard and payoulution and selling them to the London based company Skrill, Michael is now one of Austria‘s most active Business Angels and Impact Investors. His current portfolio includes shares in fifteen different Internet startups, such as rublys, wikifolio and hitbox. Furthermore, he is also involved in the company Discovering Hands, which trains blind women to use their exceptional tactile sense to discover breast cancer at an early stage.
Oliver Holle,
Speedinvest
Oliver is a serial entrepreneur with deep experience in the mobile and internet industry. He founded one of the first European internet startups in 1992, while still in university. He later pivoted the company towards mobile and in 2004 formed 3united AG, a 3-way merger that created a top European player in mobile content. In early 2006, 3united was acquired by VeriSign Inc. for € 55M. Oliver managed the integration of 3united into Verisign in Silicon Valley for 2 years. He then founded a boutique investment bank providing M&A services in 2008 and subsequently raised funds for Speedinvest, which commenced operations in 2011 and of which he is CEO.
Please welcome to the Shark Tank…
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Additional Panel Discussion What makes a successful startup ecosystem?
12:00-13:30, Gründungszentrum
Thomas Funke, RKW-German Productivity and Innovation Centre • Panel Leader Thomas is a serial founder and Head of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the German Productivity and Innovation Centre, a start-up think tank of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy. He earned his PhD from WU Vienna and was co-founder of the Entrepreneurship Center Network (ECN).
(Dr.) Gabriele Tatzberger, Head of Start-up Services at Vienna Business Agency Gabi is the head of the start-up services of the Vienna Business Agency and executive manager of Vienna Region. She is keen on helping startups grow, in Vienna and beyond.
Georg Fürlinger, Austrian Institute of Technology Georg is PhD fellow at the Austrian Institute of Technology and consultant in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation. His research focusses on innovation systems and the role of universities therein. Before joining the AIT he worked with StartX, Stanford‘s Accelerator Program, and was teaching at the New York Institute of Technology.
Lénárd Horgos, Hungarian Business Angel Network (HBAN) Lénárd is founding Partner of M27 ABSOLVO, Board Member of the Hungarian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (HVCA), and co-founder of the Hungarian Business Angel Network (HBAN). He graduated at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences then followed his business studies by strategy, financing, marketing specializations at MIT and Wharton Business School.
Matt Kuppers, Startup Manufactury (UK) Matt Kuppers is the CEO and Founder of Startup Manufactory, a London-based boutique startup consultancy. He also co-founded MenuSpring (now eetapp), UKs most popular restaurant dishes search engine, featured in the best British Startup 100 ranking in 2013 according to startups.co.uk and currently valued at £5m. He has been working in the startup industry since 2008. Over the past years, he advised more than 250 startups and taught entrepreneurship on business school level to over 100 students.
Herb de Vries, University of Canterbury (NZ) Herb is a successful entrepreneur and senior lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury. His specialist research interests are entrepreneurship and SME management, focusing on the emerging area of variations in entrepreneurship across cultures and international borders.
Job Fair and Job Chat
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Ever thought about joining a startup? Whether you are looking for an internship or a full-time position after your studies, the startups at the Job Fair are offering a wide range of opportunities! Find 20+ startups looking for top talent in Festsaal 2 and get a CV check while you’re there.
Investors Coffee For the first time this year, we want to introduce the Investors Coffee at the Entrepreneurship Avenue Conference. During the Coffee Break, which takes place right after our Feed the Sharks event, investors and founders have the opportunity to connect in a relaxed atmosphere. In order to guarantee this personal exchange, we provide a special area with restricted access for selected investors and the teams who qualified for the Feed the Shark event and the Pitch Award. Within the 50 minute break, founders can get feedback, make appointments or even close deals. Investors are provided with potential early-stage deal flow opportunities. In order to offer great value, we invited well-known investors from several countries, namely: Antal Károly Ph.D., Traction-Tribe, Hungary Carlos Fernández de Retana, INiTS Constantin Bergmann-Korn, Axel Springer Plug&Play, Germany Danial Horak, Conda Dénes Csiszár, JayStack, Hungary Dr. Wolfgang Alkier, AAIA Erich Morawek, AAIA Florian Resch, aws Gründerfonds Gregor Posch, Wiener Wirtschaftsagentur
Hansi Hansmann, AAIA Joerg Floeck, Match-Maker Ventures Laurenz Simbrunner, aws Gründerfonds Lénárd Horgos, M27, Hungary Mario Mayerthaler, A1 Markus Lang, Pioneers Ventures Markus Müller, Media in Progress Michael Altrichter, Speed Beteiligungs GmbH Michaela Siquans-Egger, A1 Oliver Holle, Speedinvest
Peter Zimmermann, AAIA Philipp Stangl, Pioneers Ventures Prof. Dr. Thomas Blaschke, AAIA Ralf Kunzmann, aws Gründerfonds Thomas Ecker, Technet Thomas Streimelweger, AAIA Tina Sperl, Erste Bank Gründungszentrum Verena Winter, BDO Victor de Witt, EveryOne
Behind the scenes meet the the organizing Team THE CONFERENCE TEAM
Bastian Rüther Head Organizer
Desislava Georgieva Head of Pre-Event
Florian Ott Head Organizer
Jacqueline Go Head of Partners
Peter Mühlbauer Head of Logistics
Megan MacKenzie Head of Marketing
Dima Kharchenko Head of IT
Nico Binder Project Manager
Claudia Hidou Project Manager
Christoph Wittmann Project Manager
Richard Petras Project Manager
Patricia Locher Project Manager
Adrian Stummer Anton Verkhovodov Project Manager Project Manager
Alex Grossmann Veronika Fischer Theresa Kollnig Project Manager Job Fair Project ManagerJob Fair Project Manager
Oksana Bakina Project Manager
THE LAB TEAM
Rudolf Dömötör Director ECN
Markus Himmelfreundpointner ECN
Anna Iglseder Lab Project Manager
Job Chat
Did you score an interview with one of Europe’s top startups? Know where to find them and get there on time to make a good impression.
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Movinga D4.0.114 NUMBER26 D4.0.118
Speedinvest D4.0.119 Wikifolio D4.0.120
Tourradar D4.0.124
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