Good moooorning Tetuan!
@StartupJedi here! Today tons and tons of news and breaking ones. First of all were on the COVER of OnMadrid (El País)… How coooool is that?! @jmcobian and @Timpik_com‘s Camilo rocking the news! As I told you previously, last Wednesday we had an awesome night of romance at Okuri Spaces: Speed-Dating Startups (#datingstartups). Around 60 daters showed up all well dressed and perfumed looking for their co-founding soulmate.
Last week, our friend Mario Lopez de Avila, was planning to set “The Bit and the Bizz” with Wayra in February to get bizz guys and bit guys acquainted, but when they caught wind of Tetuan Valley Entrepreneur Speed-Dating realized that this was no solo job. Thanks to them we all joined efforts and applicants to make this night a success. It was really heart-warming to see how a lot of friends from the startup community expressed their interest to push a common event.
So, to the event: First of all you HAVE TO check the coolest social media summary of the event done with Zoomry’s beta. It’s maaagic! All the tweets, RTs and noise surrounding SpeedDating have been broken down, even MBAs can understand it! Check it now and here!
Cobi kickstarted the event with a lot of news about what is going on in Okuri (the Tetuan Valley mothership):
- Speed-Dating-Startups: this kind of events add value for everyone in the entrepreneurship ecosystem, and we are set to join-efforts with our peers to make it a common cause and tour it around our different headquarters. Next session will probably be @ Wayra‘s house
- Orange Wednesdays: every week there’s something awesome going on at Okuri Spaces on Wenesday evening. Next Wends 25th January 2012 – 19:00, Okuri Talk: “Emprender con Sentido” by Juan Carlos Arrese, a great StartupBootcamp mentor and executive coach that will lead on how to hone your mindset for success. Tickets here
- Kauffman Global Partnership Network: Okuri has been selected as inaugural partner of Kauffman’s global network. Meaning we’re in the game with the greatest organization on entrepreneurship research and support
- Startup Spain Angel School: with our shinny brand new logo and Madrid Emprende as four first sponsor we are launching Startup Spain Angel School: THE workshop for those people wanting to get into internet startup angel investing. It will be hosted by Madrid Emprende @ Madrid International Lab, 9th February 2012… Get more info about it
- Tetuan Valley Startup School VI: the most awesome program to get from idea to prototype in 6 weeks is now accepting applications for Spring 2012 edition. Sign up now!
- Tetuan Valley Carabanchel and Okuri Spaces: if you want to get a FREE place in our Tetuan Valley accelerator new spots just made available! (contact here). We also have a few spots left in our co-working haven (Okuri Spaces), for just 99€/month
- The webs of Startup Spain and Tetuan Valley are looking for web-design geniuses to perform some serious plastic surgery. If you’re up to this epic challenge… tweet us or ping us.
WOoOOOW! That was a hell of an infomercial… eeuuughh… But lets get back to yesterday’s event. There was a lot of interesting people hanging in the Hackers’ Guild. As Mario tweed:
@nodosenlared: At TV Entrepreneur Speed Dating! 94 registered, 33 Bits, 61 Bizz… Let them kiss!
We ended up with more than 60 people here! By the looks on some of their faces as they were leaving I’d say they really got their money’s worth… Actually, the event was free, but you know what I mean.
Let me mention some of the peers that have supported the event and helped us hustling it around the cloud to make it such a blockbuster:
- Mario Lopez de Avila – The Bits and the Bizz / Nodos
- Eduard Giménez – Agile Entrepreneurship Spain Meetup - Emtrics
- Jose Manuel Beas – Agilistas / JMBeas.es
- Jose Luis Marina – PrimerViernes
- Begoña Miguel – Ellas 2.0
- Gary Stewart – Wayra
- Ricardo Fernandez – StepOne (www.stepone.com)
- Javier Cuervo – @javiercuervo – EOI
- Pablo Rodriguez – Betabeers
- Felix Lopez Capel – AJE Madrid
- Liz Fleming – IE Venture Lab
- (if I miss somebody, please just shoot me… an email and I’l get it tweaked in a sec)
And once again I displayed my mad photography skillzz. If you want to look at the pictures… here you are:
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So long, so long, so long! So long and thanks for all the fish!(like fish… in the sea… get it?)
