Last week Gregor and I went to StartUp Day event that was held in Kino Šiška and was organized under the Slovenia Cowoking initiative. I found out about this event few weeks ago while I was attending one of the Ljubljana movie festival screenings. It sounded to me like an event where you can spend pretty much whole afternoon and a part of evening and being glad that you didn't miss it. Furthermore it was closely connected what we do back in our office during the day hours. And Gregor needed no persuading.
Whole event was a mixture of success stories, so-far developments, tips how to get organized, how to start crowd founding, there was a StartUp battle, movie screening and after party. First part - the StartUp Marathon with lectures without any breakes in between was quite inspiring. Although it reminded me about one evening two or three years ago when we went to Kranj's students hideout bar called Klubar. They host traveler evenings where travelers share their stories and photographs. There was a girl talking about her trip to Iceland. The pictures were great, blue sky, great lanscapes. We were all thrilled by the time she finished. Later she came to us to talk a bit more about trip and we talked about the weather. I was astonished when she told us that most of the time it rained and was really cold, but she on purpose left out those pictures since they were grey and far from picture-perfect. Same story goes here - while most talk about their successful startup projects they quickly omit stories about all the blood, toil, tears and sweat of the failed ones. Sometimes we can learn more from these stories as from successful ones. There is nothing wrong with failing as long as we get up and try again, hopefully not making same mistakes twice.
These events can be quite inspiring, kind of morale boosters, giving you new perspective of how things could be done. There is another conference comming to Ljubljana in mid December: the TEDx. I was a bit dissapinted that by the time I found out about this event it was allready full booked. TED has this realy neat motto: Ideas worth spreading. On startup day we also talked about ideas. What in some way suprised me but then again it made perfect sense was that people are starting to share ideas, not keeping them secret until the release of their product. They talk about them with their friends, this guy from the faculty that always had a bit different view of the world, complete strangers on coworking sessions, aunt from the coast and little brother's ex girlfriend that works abroad... They are testing the ideas, improving them and preparing them for the grand finale. The idea may be the spark but that matters more is how we brought it to life.
Whole event was a mixture of success stories, so-far developments, tips how to get organized, how to start crowd founding, there was a StartUp battle, movie screening and after party. First part - the StartUp Marathon with lectures without any breakes in between was quite inspiring. Although it reminded me about one evening two or three years ago when we went to Kranj's students hideout bar called Klubar. They host traveler evenings where travelers share their stories and photographs. There was a girl talking about her trip to Iceland. The pictures were great, blue sky, great lanscapes. We were all thrilled by the time she finished. Later she came to us to talk a bit more about trip and we talked about the weather. I was astonished when she told us that most of the time it rained and was really cold, but she on purpose left out those pictures since they were grey and far from picture-perfect. Same story goes here - while most talk about their successful startup projects they quickly omit stories about all the blood, toil, tears and sweat of the failed ones. Sometimes we can learn more from these stories as from successful ones. There is nothing wrong with failing as long as we get up and try again, hopefully not making same mistakes twice.
These events can be quite inspiring, kind of morale boosters, giving you new perspective of how things could be done. There is another conference comming to Ljubljana in mid December: the TEDx. I was a bit dissapinted that by the time I found out about this event it was allready full booked. TED has this realy neat motto: Ideas worth spreading. On startup day we also talked about ideas. What in some way suprised me but then again it made perfect sense was that people are starting to share ideas, not keeping them secret until the release of their product. They talk about them with their friends, this guy from the faculty that always had a bit different view of the world, complete strangers on coworking sessions, aunt from the coast and little brother's ex girlfriend that works abroad... They are testing the ideas, improving them and preparing them for the grand finale. The idea may be the spark but that matters more is how we brought it to life.
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