Comments on: Seedcamp Warsaw seeks out the Eastern startups

By: Entrepreneuship goes East: Bericht zum Mini Seedcamp Wahrschau | Gründerszene

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:50:10 +0000

[...] sieht man einmal von Max von Atlas ab. Dokumentiert wurde die Veranstaltung unter anderem von TechCrunch sowie von lokalen Bloggern. Gründerszene zieht als Fazit, dass die Organisation durchaus gelungen [...]

By: Joobili Wins Seedcamp Warsaw « Joobili Blog

Joobili Wins Seedcamp Warsaw « Joobili Blog — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:45:11 +0000

[...] Leading Polish blog votes Joobili as the best of the winners Hungary’s biggest newspaper TechCrunch UK announces the [...]

By: Blog [EN]

Blog [EN] — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:52:26 +0000

Warsaw SeedCamp Event Impressions …

During the Warsaw Mini-Seedcamp event a round of 20 startups from across the region had a chance to display their work, get critiqued, get advice and apply for funding. It was a good event and some ……

By: Jared Salter

Jared Salter — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:02:12 +0000

@nicholas thanks for checking out Joobili. Glad you found plenty of cool events, but actually we are just getting started in terms of the event content we will provide. Keep an eye on us.
@mike good call on the regional naming fiasco. Eastern europeans call themselves “central europeans” or even better “New Europe”. Bit of a stretch for me still even though I live in Hungary, so I’ll stick with “CEE region” for now.

By: Robert T Kowalski

Robert T Kowalski — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:59:42 +0000

Mike,
appreciate your description of MyPolitIQ it pretty much neatly and briefly catches the basics behind our start-up and idea.

Event was great, and we look forward to TechCrunch running an event in Warsaw, Vilnius or the area in the near future!
best,
RK

By: Mini Seedcamp - mini wywiady | AK74 - blog Artura Kurasińskiego (cc) 2007

Mini Seedcamp - mini wywiady | AK74 - blog Artura Kurasińskiego (cc) 2007 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:27:49 +0000

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By: Wygraliśmy Mini Seedcamp! « HumanWay

Wygraliśmy Mini Seedcamp! « HumanWay — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:49:22 +0000

[...] Techcrunch: HumanWay.pl: This is a “job applicant tracking system 2.0″. I liked this idea, assuming it can do everything it claims. It’s a working product already, which helps companies deal with the massive amounts of incoming material from jobs applicants – an increasing issue in these straightened times. HumanWay is a simple tool to create and distribute job requisitions and collect and manage applications. [...]

By: Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:31:40 +0000

Jane – Thanks – got any ideas about what we call this region instead?

By: Jan Rychter

Jan Rychter — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:29:34 +0000

Mike,

Good observation about the clumsy region naming. “Central and Eastern European” countries have little to do with each other, apart from the fact that they are all economically behind Western Europe because of the communism scourge. People really need to start looking at countries here.

Aside from that, great summary. It was a good event.

By: jacek wysocki / humanway

jacek wysocki / humanway — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:43:40 +0000

@ Mike -> regarding HumanWay you say “It screens applicants across social networks (it says here – sounds like a tough job)”

well it would have been a tough job if we wanted to do it ourselves. But we don’t do that in-house, we’ve been integrating here with last year’s Seedcamp finalist Szuku.pl (people search engine) and all the tough job has already been done at their side.

greetings, Jacek

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:03:43 +0000

MypolitIQ sounds very interesting. Would be great if it then ranked politicians by number of ‘followers’ and more generally by their views in relation to populist opinion. An interesting way to qualify the opinions of those in power. So long as they can prevent gaming, I could see this kind of app being very powerful.

Maybe they should consider some kind of psychometic test which provides more robust ‘opinions’ that don’t change with the weather.

That way it can be used to compare and contrast political thinking across countries, districts, towns,etc.

If done right and with the advice of experienced psychoanalists, it could be ground-breaking.

By: Andy Brandt

Andy Brandt — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:15:05 +0000

Too quick in commenting…

By: Andy Brandy

Andy Brandy — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:05:23 +0000

Great summary, was interesting meeting you. Thanks for mentioning Krakow, which is indeed not only the Ruby CEE capital but also a place with vibrant IT community with lots of IT companies from largest multinationals to small, agile companies like us – to freelancers.

By: Paul Klipp

Paul Klipp — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:48:46 +0000

Very nice summary. There were some really sharp people at SeedCamp Warsaw and a few great ideas. Thanks, also, for mentioning Krakow, the Ruby capital of Central Europe.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:42:53 +0000

Joobili sounds interesting and having just tried it, had a good database of events. They should also partner with the likes of amiando, Seatwave etc to get even more smaller events, but good site.

Good luck!