19/02/2016
 
 
Start Up is often considered as a first step on a road to great business career. Many young entrepreneurs claim that innovative idea and their zeal alone can grant them success. Reality, however, is a lot more complicated, and even though the start-up is an important milestone on a road to fame and profits, there is still lot to be done before embarking on that journey. Most pertinent question here would be: what do I need to do to start my own company? The answer can be found on Business Acceleration Days”, a training organized by DotConnect and Microsoft Poland.
 
Business Acceleration Days is a two days training for Microsoft Imagine Cup participants who qualified for the next round. It will be carried out by technological and business mentors, who will aid partakers in planning their business and forging their ideas into market success. The main goal of this training is to prepare the teams for the next stage of the contest and to ensure that, they will be scrutinized by four teams of judges. Its second, but equally important aim is to provide young innovators with knowledge and skills required for their further development, both professional and business. The competition is divided into three categories: Games, Innovation and World Citizenship. In its current stage, each of them have thirty teams that fared best so far, summing up for ninety squads total.
 
The event will be held between 20th and 21st February, in the Microsoft Poland headquarters on Aleje Jerozolimskie street 196A, Warsaw. The partners include META Zernike Ventures, STARTUP EUROPE-TWIST and Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP).
 
DotConnect is a company, which mission is to support young talented people from IT and technological industries. As a business accelerator, it helps to fund various interesting projects, as well as providing their creators with knowledge and essential supplies to accomplish them.

We are cooperating with many lead companies to find interesting projects and support them, both financially and by delivering the necessary know-how. Figuratively speaking, running your own company resembles connecting the dots to make an image. By organizing events such as Business Acceleration Days, DotConnect helps the young teams to connect those dots in order to create a business masterpiece out of them.
Says Marcin Franc, founder of DotConnect.

In case of any questions please contact:
Stanisław Stasiewicz
Stanislaw.stasiewicz@mfitc.com
T. 694 424 093

For your convenience we have added the event agenda:

​Day 1 20.02.2016
  • 8:00-9:00  - Registration
  • 9:00-9:30  -  Introduction (Marcin Franc)
  • 9:30-10:40  -  Business modeling (Marcin Franc)
  • 11:00-12:40  - 4Inspiring and despairing fu**ups (multiple speakers)
  • 13:20-15:00  -  TARAN factor (Marcin Franc)
  • 15:20-17:00   - Smart money (Piotr Sławski)
  • 17:20-19:00  -  Ask me anything (multiple speakers)
  • 20:00-24:00  - Investment pitches (Record)
 ​Day 2 21.02.2016
  • 9:00-10:00  - Registration
  • 10:00-16:00  - Hands-on evaluations
  • 10:00-16:00  -  Investment pitches (Live) [selected teams]
  • 17:30-18:00  -  TOP 10 announcement
 



TWIST DIGITAL is the H2020 action, under the Startup Europe umbrella, that provides Transregional Web Innovative Services for Thriving Digital and Mobile to web entrepreneurs aiming at scaling up and competing in the global market around 4 interconnected web entrepreneurship startup ecosystems and hubs (Rome, Lille, Stockholm and Warsaw).
 
Startup Europe aims to strengthen the business environment for web and ICT entrepreneurs so that their ideas and business can start and grow in the EU. Startup Europe contributes to the Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan.
Startup Europe's objectives are:
  • to reinforce the links between people, business and associations who build and scale up the startup ecosystem (e.g. the Web Investors Forum, the Accelerator Assembly, the Crowdfunding Network) 
  • to inspire entrepreneurs and provide role models (e.g. the Leaders Club and their Startup Manifesto, the Startup Europe Roadshow)
  • to celebrate new and innovative startups (with Tech All Stars and Europioneers), help them to expand their business (Startup Europe Partnership, ACE Acceleration Programme), and give them access to funding under Horizon 2020.