When: the week of June 27, 2011
Where: NY on June 27 / 28 + Boston on June 29/30 and July 1st.

Who should attend: profesionals working in the Technology Industry (Web/Software/Mobile): entrepreneurs, future entrepreneurs, developers, marketers, designers, investors, journalists.

Deliverable: meet with US entrepreneurs and investors, great visibility for your startup (lot of journalist + investors), feel the American way for entrepreneurship, a unique experience to meet other Belgian fellows.

Agenda :
Company visits: LiveStream, Foursquare, Tumblr,GroupMe, meetup, Boxee, bit.ly, animoto, blip.tv, Forrester Research,…
Visit of incubators
Visits of the MIT and Harvard: MIT media lab, entrepreneurship center, Harvard University.
Meeting with investors: Angels and VC’s
Meeting with local entrepreneurs
Dinner with Belgians in NY/Boston
Flagship event with the presence of the Belgian Prince Philippe on June 29th in the evening

Participation fees: Everybody pays for his trip, that’s it ! no extra cost.

Financial support: you can request the Belgian Regions to cover up to 50% of your travel cost (contact: Brussels Export, Awex or Flanders Investment&Trade )

Book your trip now:
Flight to NY to start the WebMission on June 27th
Trip to Boston (train, plane or Bus) on the 29th in the morning
Trip back to Brussels (from Boston or NY) on July 1st in the evening (or after the weekend)

How to join:
1) Send an email to jean@betagroup.be before April 27th with your Name/surmane + Passport Number + Birth date
2) Book your flight
3) Meeting with all the participants on Monday 27th at 7PM at the Coworking BetaGroup (4 Witte PaterStraat, 1040 Brussels) : confirm the visits, the agenda and the hotels.

BetaGroup meeting 26# will be held on April 5th, 2011

>>> Register Here <<<

Venue:
ULB – Building U – room UD2 – 120 (Room: Janson)
50 av Franklin Roosevelt , 1050 Brussels , Belgium

Agenda:
6:30PM – Welcome drink
7:00PM – Demos of 3 Belgian Web startups :
1) Sandawe.com
2) Brekiri.com
3) TBD

7:30PM – 3 startups that presented in the past: what can we learn from their experience (raising money, growing, reaching break-even)
1) Getyoo.com
2) Teatower.com
3) Taskii.com

8:00 PM – “Live Tweets”: everyone is welcome on stage to “tweet” their announcements (partnerships, promote an event, offering a job or any other non-commercial proposals relevant to the group).

8:30 PM – Networking: drinks and snacks are offered by our sponsors.

If you want to attend the event book you free ticket above.
If you want to present your startup in a future event, please fill this form.

5 early stage startups will demo their applications at 7PM. Afterwards participants are invited to meet, share ideas and network.

Venue:
New Solvay Business School Building
ULB Campus
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 48
1050 Brussels
Belgium

Agenda:

6:30PM – Welcome drink

7:00PM – Demos of 5 Belgian Web startups :
1) GhostBloggers.net
2) checkthis.com
3) yento.eu/
4) prezly.com/
5) foruforever.net

8:00 PM – “Live Tweets”: everyone is welcome on stage to “tweet” their announcements (partnerships, promote an event, offering a job or any other non-commercial proposals relevant to the group).

8:30 PM – Networking: drinks and snacks are offered by our sponsors.

If you want to attend the event book you free ticket above.

DMF (Digital Marketing First) is hosting a special edition of the BetaGroup presenting Startups in the field of Digital Marketing.

When: October 28th at 2PM
Where: Tour & Taxi (Brussels)
Free registration: here

Presenting startups:
Userplus.com
WooRank.com
desktop-reporting.com
Wataro.com
tinkertouch.com
adlogix.eu
dialogfeed.com

Last Thursday, Sebastien de Halleux gave a very inspiring presentation to the BetaGroup. Many participants have requested his slides. Here they are… (thank you again Sebastien for this great pitch):

Sebastien (32 years old) is a Belgian entrepreneur who co-founded and was COO of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social game companies, which was acquired by EA for $400.000.000 in November 2009. Upon joining EA, he was appointed Vice President of Business Development for EA Interactive.

Prior to Playfish, Sebastien was part of the founding team at Macrospace, a European mobile games startup which merged with US-based Sorrent to form Glu Mobile and grew to a $337m IPO in March 2007. Sebastien also helped incubate Nokia Ad Service, a new business unit at Nokia aiming to monetize traffic across 850 million Nokia handsets. Sebastien holds a Master?s in Civil Engineering with honours from Imperial College, London and currently lives in San Francisco, California.

The BetaGroup organizes workshops to help technology startups to be successful. The next event will happen on Thursday, September 02, 2010 from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

You have a wonderful technology or a marvelous product. People will love it but you’re running a business, right? So you’ll have to set a price, knowing that not every customer is willing to pay the same. But what is the best price? So before just copying your competitors’ product and lowering their price with 10%, you might want to dive into some pricing tactics.

Our coaches for this workshop are Nick De Mey and Philippe De Ridder from the Board of Innovation.

Who should attend: startups in the Tech Industry: web, software, mobile tech
How it works: One hour of theory then one hour of Q&A and practice.
How many participants: the workshop is limited to 30 attendees.
When: September 2d from 5PM to 7PM
Where: ABE offices in Tour & Taxi – Av. du Port 86C, b211 – 1000 Bruxelles
Price: Free for BetaGroup participants

Board of Innovation, the office specialized in business model innovation, is offering a free session for a limited group of Betagroup members. In this 2-hour, interactive workshop, different techniques are offered to analyse the psychology behind pricing, versioning, anchoring, and other ways to optimize your revenue streams.

If you plan to attend the event, book your ticket above.

The first WorkShop to help Startups Build their skills happened on June 14th at Boston University in Brussels. This series of 4 is co organized with the BetaGroup and the ABE.

35 Betagroupers signed-up to this workshop about “The art of pitching”

Charlie Crouch, our teacher did a great job. The feedbacks are very positive:

“The topic was well chosen and Charlie has again succeeded in making it a very interactive session. I am looking forward to the next workshop.” Allan Segebarth from adlogix

“The Art of Pitching is a highly useful workshop. Charlie provided us with plenty of interesting content. I loved his practical approach, tips, and his sense of humor. I had a lot of fun and I’m definitely coming to the next session in the series.” Boban Milosevic

“This first BetaGroup workshop was exciting and enlightening, and thanks to the pragmatisicm of the americain teacher, it provided me plenty of valuable information about the art of pitching !” Dorian VAN BEVER

“As already mailed to Charlie, the workshop was great. I liked the “informal” atmosphere” and the content.” Ing. Patrick Nollet from ict-synergy

“Many thanks for the initiative, that was really great. I have attended similar trainings and found that this session was an excellent summary of all the key points, plus lots of useful hints and tips.” Eric Pellerin

“Very interesting workshop , it is like reading again good old marketing courses: it may look very obvious but you ask yourself anyway “how could I forget such fundamentals” “ Geoffrey Laloux

“Great workshop !” Philippe Depuydt

“Charlie’s talk was informative and entertaining. In spite of having given many, many presentations and pitches and talks over the years, I picked up several valuable tips.” Jeffrey Baumgartner

We will keep you in the loop regarding the following 3 workshops.

Pictures from WeStartup corner

On March 30th 2010, 5 ladies entrepreneur in the Tech/Web sector will demo their startup to the BetaGroup (at the ULB in Brussels). Everybody is welcome to attend this Special Event.

Presenting Startups are:
1) UserPlus.org by Lonneke
2) Silkinabox.com by Vanessa
3) 123feelfree.be by Leen
4) Kameleonbon.be by Eva
5) SchmoozyFox by Olga

>> All the information about this event is available here <<

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