Examinging what's in our genes that make us want to be entrepreneurs and what are the elements that'll scale our venture toward success, we bring you Bjoern Hernamm, the co-author of the Startup Gnome Project and creator of the subsequent Startup Genome Compass tool. He will share with us about his research results.
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Excited on our Startup Deck too:
:: Seth Cohen, co-founder of Screenius, mobile/TV/Web app that will find video content that matches with your favor and taste.
:: Taeyang Yoon, co-founder of KarFarm where when you do carshopping, the dealers will bid for your business and you don’t pay a thing.
About the speakers:
:: Bjoern Herrmann, co-founder of Black Box Venture and co-author of the Startup Gnome Project report. Black Box focuses on accelerating startups from Europe and other regions outside US. He had founded 4 education & hr related ventures in Germany, Bangladesh & the US.
In May, 2011, the first Startup Genome Report was released has been downloaded more than 15,000 times, covered in more than 150 publications and translated into more than 15 languages.
In August, the Startup Genome Compass was released as a new tool for an entrepreneur to benchmark yourself against 3200 startups across more than 25 key performance indicators. It is a way to diagnose problems, communicate priorities within your team and measure progress over time.
More about him:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjoernlasse
:: Seth Cohen, co-founder, Screenius. Founded in 2010, Screenius develops mobile/web/TV apps that helps consumers find video they enjoy by matching content to their taste. The apps make discovering and consuming video as easy, fun, personalized, and social as it can be. Seth has a career spanning film/television, s/w engineering, and product management. More about Seth: (
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sethmcohen)
:: Taeyang Yoon, founder, KarFarm. Founded in 2009, KarFarm makes dealers of your choice compete for your business when you shop for a new car, where you don’t even have to pay a fee upfront. Taeyang is a product kind of guy, with rich e-comm experiences under his belt. He had built or rebuilt the e-comm department for 9 stores, including Toyota 101, Bayshore AG, Boardwalk AG, etc.
Share the evening with:
6:00 - 7:00pm, refreshment, networking
7:00 - 7:20 Opening, serial legal lessons from our legal experts from Pillsbury
7:20 - 8:30 Talks/Demo by:
Seth Cohen, Screenius
Taeyang Yoon, KarFarm
Bjoern Hernamm, on Startup Gnome Project
8:30 - 9:00, You are the star! Tell us about yourself!
9:00 on, more schmoozing
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/Shirley
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