STARTUP WEEK 2011-Europe’s first Startup Festival

With the support of Initial Factor (www.initialfactor.com), STARTeurope (www.starteurope.at) presents the STARTUP WEEK 2011: 5 days, 35 nations, 50 startups, 70 speakers, 100 investors, 1000 guests daily. From 3^rd -7^th of October the first European Startup-Festival with focus on the CEE region, will take place in Vienna.

STARTUP WEEK: Challenge, Conference and Focus Events
Startup Days: 3rd & 4th of October

The first two days of the five-day Startup-Festival are dedicated to Europeans 50 best innovative startups. In workshops, teached by professional mentors they achieve the knowledge in order to take the challenge for the top ten startups. Because only 10 ot them get the unique chance to present their idea in front of a top class investor-panel on TechCruch Day (Thursday, 6^th).

Conference Days: 5^th -7^th of October
The main program of the STARTUP WEEK 2011 takes place from 5^th- 7^th of October at the ”Haus der Industrie”. 70 top speakers, such as the industry giants Morten Lund (Skype investor), Esther Dyson (IT journalist and No.1 investor), Christian Hernandez (facebook) and Stefan Glänzer (Europe Star investor) will talk about their experiences and be vividly presentable without a VIP-room.

Focus Events
In addition to the main event there will be around 12 more exciting focus events (workshops, live streams, lectures) held in various locations throughout Vienna. They are dedicated to the topics of design, digital media, gaming, health 2.0, movie, social entrepreneurship or the Indian startup ecosystem. Another special focus-event is the Hackathon-contest by Facebook at October 6^th.

The idea behind it
“The aim of the STARTUP WEEK is to create an international platform for startups and young entrepreneurs from Europe” said Jürgen Furian and Andreas Tschas, founder of STARTeurope and chief organizer of the STARTUP WEEK. “Europe needs new economic impulses, those impulses we create with solid and innovative startups,” added Andreas Tschas. Some entrepreneurs will leave the STARTUP WEEK with successful financing. All others will have learned a lot from each other can expand their network and have enjoyed a week full of entrepreneurial energy”, reckon Markus Wagner and Oliver Holle, the initiators of Initial Factor. “A particular concern to us is to simplify the networking with international investors and media-contacts, for the participants of the STARTUP WEEK. Consider to this we have come up with very promising-ideas”, said Jürgen Furian.

STARTUP WEEK by STARTeurope
The STARTUP WEEK is organized by STARTeurope (www.starteurope.at) and is supported by the foundation-cluster Initial Factor (www.initialfactor.com) and TechCrunch Europe (www.eu.techcrunch.com).

Current partners of the STARTUP WEEK 2011 are besides impulse/aws (www.impulse-awsg.at, www.awgs.at) and the “Industriellenvereinigung” (www.iv-net.at) inter alia Level 3 Communications, Styria Media Group, Konica Minolta, improove, Herbst Vavrovsky Kinsky and Ströck.