If you’re a European startup then you need to check out Plugg organised by long-time Web 2.0 consultant, blogger, entrepreneur and now TechCrunch contributor Robin Wauters. The event will take place on the 12th of March in Brussels, Belgium, and will feature a host of top speakers from the continent, and a startup competition. Registration for the Plugg Start-ups Rally, which is free to enter, is now open, and the deadline for registration has been set to Wednesday 4 February at midnight (CET). Any European early-stage company with a maximum of only one round of institutional funding can sign up for the competition by entering details about their team, concept and business model until Wednesday the 4th of February at midnight on this dedicated mini-site. All submissions that fit the criteria will be carefully evaluated by a professional jury of pundits and VCs, and twenty will ultimately be invited to pitch at the audience from the main stage at the conference.
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January 23, 2009
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Interesting that there hasn’t been more comments here, reading through the criteria it was interesting to see the – ‘market potential – gross margins’
Just thinking of the start-ups with traction that have no gross margin or any commercial plans as yet – Twitter, etc…
I’m not saying you shouldn’t plan for profit but so many entrepreneurs I talk to seem to concentrate so much on trying to copy the ’success’ of the non-revenue generating start-ups they see that they do forget about margins and concentrate on traction.
Fair comment Gary. As one VC said to me the other day – the best funding is customer revenue. Talk about an about turn from a while back…
Have you guys seen this?
http://thenextweb.com/2009/01/26/caught-act-techcrunch-copy-paste-crimes/
It’s half way between really funny and pathetic though.
However, the submission form is pretty generic, so my opinion is that gross margins, 3 year insight and that other stuff is more something they hope to see rather than something they demand.
In any case, it’s worth a go because I’ve heard loads of good feedbacks about last year’s Plugg.
Fabio, we’re messing around, we’re all stealing from each other
Read the comments too.