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Hi people! How has your week been? I’m back from an amazing Barcelona Scrum Week. Super tired, but excited! Lots of great ideas. We managed to get some swag shirts from the guys at RunRoom (also know as runrun; yeah, our English accent sucks. :P).The corporate culture talk we gave was a blast and we had a lot of fun giving it. This week I’ll also be away from Madrid, but on a fun trip to Porto for the Startup Pirates Battle! I’ll be talking with startups there ,so if you’re one of them, ping me in advance. ;)As I’ve been doing previous weeks, here’s some interesting news of the week. First, 17 ways to persuade people is an amazing post on tips and tricks with their corresponding scientific base that you can use when giving a talk. Amazingly, swearing is great for talks! (Yay! I knew it!). Another of my favourite posts this week comes from my good friend Paul, talking about why startups should use English always, no exception. It’s definitely a must read that also has some great links.

This week Mini Seedcamp is happening in Barcelona; if you happen to be around the area, do drop by and try to sneak in cause it’s probably worth it.

Ok, so off we go. Let’s kick it with this week’s events. Wooohoooo!

 

 

What’s Going on in the Madrid Startup Community

V Congreso periodismo en red (Spanish)
When: Tues Nov 15, 8:30am – Wed Nov 16 7:00pm
Where: Fac. de CC de la Información, Av. Complutense (Metro Ciudad Universitaria). Madrid

If, like me, you work with the media, this might be an interesting event to attend. Plenty of media people will be here, from Vocento to 20 Minutos, RTVE, etc.

Mobile Web Development (Spanish)
When: Tues Nov 15, 7:00pm
Where: CAMON, Plaza de Moncloa, 1, Madrid

If you want to learn how to do mobile development, this is a great event to start with. They’ll talk about the theory on how to build apps and will walk through a real-life case.

 

Iniciador (Spanish)
When: Wed Nov 16, 7:00pm
Where: GarAJE. c/ Matilde Díez 11, Madrid

How to be startup from the music is the theme for this month’s talk. Amazing line-up, Aviador Dro, Electric Nana and Pelacha, moderated by Sebas Muriel, VP of corporate Affairs at Tuenti. If you love music, this is the must go event of the week!

 

I Jornada Estatal RITSI (Spanish)
When: Thurs Nov 17, 12:00am
Where: Universidad de Alcalá,Madrid

Meeting for Computer Science students on Agile Methodologies and Cloud computing with talks from the major tech companies in Spain, Microsoft, Indra, Cisco or Tuenti. Not sure what they’ll talk about or even if it’s worth it, but if you’re looking for a job, this is probably a great place to get onto the recruiters’ radars. :P (that’s if you want to work there, hehe).

 

DevOps: HAProxy (Spanish)
When: Thurs Nov 17, 7:30pm
Where: Oficinas de Tuenti, Plaza de las Cortes 2, planta 4, Madrid

My good friend Ricardo will go all ninja on you and he will explain how Tuenti does load balancing with HAProxy.

 

Foro BAN Madri+d (Spanish)
When: Fri Nov 18, 9:30am
Where: Salón de Actos de PromoMadrid. Suero de Quiñones, 34. Madrid

And on the investor side, you can check out the Madrid Business Angel investor forum that will be held this week. It tends to be pretty large, but it might be a good experience to check how startups pitch there and what questions fly around.

 

 

Below is an archived version of the Madrid StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Madrid. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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Gooooood morning, Startupnam! Waking up in Barcelona this week (yeah, I know, I’m on the road again). I’m here for the Scrum Weekso swing by and say hi if you’re around.I was impressed by the number of emails I got last week about the immigration issues in Europe. Not only I got emails from people having problems in Spain, but in other countries like Germany as well (via Twitter):”We actually have to wait 3 months for a new US employee to arrive because of VISA. Should be much easier!”

So again, as I said last week, it’s a disgrace that we’re behaving like this. Not only that, it seems that verbal attacks on foreign are getting harsher. This past week, a good friend told me he had to sustain these attacks in the university. That professors were attacking him for not being Spanish and because he spoke English. I can’t even start to describe how ashamed I am of those behaviours. How mistaken these people are and how they can’t see past their miserable lives…

It’s sad to think that high qualified foreign are being accused of taking our jobs. Not only is this not true, but it’s actually quite the opposite, diversity is needed for innovation. Yeah, that innovation that politicians love to through around.

Anyway, other interesting news of the week I’ve posted on the Press42 Facebook page, Traction verticals (which appeared on our reading list Digest) on different ways your startup can do PR and get exposure, four destructive myths most companies still live by (this one should be read and printed in many companies) or the current status of raising seed and series A rounds for startups.

And after this rant, off we go to the events of the week!

 

 

What’s Going on in the Madrid Startup Community

InterQue (Spanish)
When: Fri Nov 11, 9:30am – 7:15pm
Where: La Casa Encendida, Ronda Valencia, 2, Madrid

One of the most interesting events this week. Opening up the program, my good friend Antonella Brogllia from TEDxMadrid, and a bunch of other good friends will be talking in different round tables. From online revolutions, to education 2.0, going through online journalism or magic 2.0.
 
iWeekend (Spanish)
When: Fri Nov 11, 5:00pm
Where: garAJE, calle Matilde Díez nº11, Madrid

Named, the Spanish Startup Weekend, it brings entrepreneurs, developers, designers, etc., together for a weekend of coding and working on new projects. A definitely must attend this week if you’re looking for inspiration, developers or co-founders.

 

6th Annual Social Responsability Forum (Spanish/English)
When: Fri Nov 11, 3:30pm – Sat Nov 12, 3:00pm
Where: Caixa Forum, Paseo del Prado, 36, Madrid

If you’re into the social entrepreneurship and Social Responsability areas, this forum is definitely a must go. With people like Erik Joule SVP from Levi Strauss, Sarah Murray from the Financial Times or Indy Johar, founder of The Hub, I think it’s a great weekend starter.

 

 

 

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What You Need to Read This Week

Napkin Labs Turns IDEO’s Innovation Process Into Web Apps For All
By Alissa Walker, Co.Design

Napkin Labs has created a nice, relatively low-cost platform for engaging your own users in open innovation. Plans start at $99 / month. Founder Riley Gibson was also just on TC’s Office Hours.

 

YC-Funded Science Exchange: A Central Marketplace For Core Research Facilities
By Jason Kincaid, TechCrunch

Science Exchange is opening up a marketplace for outsourcing science experiments. This could make high-end experiments more accessible to average people and goes well with the theme of increased utilization of almost everything.

CrowdSource, LLC Launches as a Major Competitor in the Crowdsourcing Industry
From SFGate

Scalable Workforce rebranded into Crowdsource (I wonder how much the domain sold for). It’s a nice layer on top of MTurk for common tasks like transcription, content moderation, etc.

Selena Gomez Asks Fans For Help With New Fragrance
From UsMagazine.com

This falls into the random crowdsourcing news of the week. Now fans are picking perfume ingredients. Cool.

 

Here are the notable news of the week (I’m involved but they’re all good for the startup ecosystem so I plug away!):

First, an awesome event for a great cause: we’re putting on a Mobile Copenhagen Startup Weekend on June 24-26. As many of you know, Nokia recently announced that it was shutting down their Copenhagen development center and letting go more than 950 people. That’s an awful lot of talent which has to be placed and activated. I recently met with the Nokia leadership team and we quickly agreed that a mobile-themed Startup Weekend would be an awesome way to give of taste of entrepreneurship to this crowd. Nokia is making a huge corner of their facility available to us and they’re the main sponsor of the event. We’re reserving 40 spots their top motivated engineers, product developers and designers and we’re going to open up the rest of the event to 100 Startup Weekend fanatics! Please help us spread the word – and hurry up and sign up, we’ve already sold 10% of tickets.

Secondly, note that applications to Startupbootcamp Copenhagen are now open – and close July 15th. The last program which ended in November brought ten teams comprised of 32 entrepreneurs from 12 different countries to Copenhagen. Five of the teams have been funded and the others are happily bootstrapping so our expectations are very high for this next batch. The next program runs from September to November and we’d love it if you helped to attract awesome teams to apply.

And finally, note that a bunch of startups are hiring in Copenhagen. We’re putting on a match making event, Copenhagen Startups, on June 10th. This will be a mashup of F1rst Friday and a one-off initiative but we all agree we need a regular startup networking event in Copenhagen and hopefully this will kick start it.

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What’s Going on in the Copenhagen Startup Community

Øresund JavaScript Meetup
Where: One.com, Kalvebod Brygge 45, 1.sal
When: Tuesday May 24th, 14:00

Geek event of the week. “Presentation of Assetgraph (https://github.com/On…) and possibly other web build systems and optimization tools.”

A Lifecycle Approach to Cloud Computing – Digitalisér
Where: IT- og Telestyrelsen, Holsteinsgade 63, 2100 København Ø
When: Tuesday May 24th, 14:00 – 16:00

Geneticist and researcher Simon Wardley from Leading Edge, a UK consultancy, talks about “the evolution of technology and why cloud computing is happening now.”

Videoblogging Workshop by WebSee
Where: Vesterbrogade 74, 3. sal, Copenhagen
When: Tuesday May 24th, 16:00 – 19:00

The folks behind MyDenmarkTV.com (which recently celebrated its 100th episode) share their tips on videoblogging. [In Danish]

Exit gennem IPO
Where: Bruun & Hjejle, Nørregade 21, Copenhagen
When: Wednesday May 25th, 15:00 – 17:30

The LinkedIn IPO has got everyone dreaming again. DVCA members get to learn from some hard core finance types what investors look for in IPO candidates.

Axel Osterwalder (New Business Model Generation)
Where: Anckar Grips Street 3, Malmö
When: Wednesday May 25th, 16:00 – 21:00

The Malmö startup incubator MINC has managed to attract the main driver behind the crowd sourced phenomenon New Business Model Generation.

Spilbar
Where: Filmhuset, Gothersgade – Bio Asta (i kælderen)
When: Thursday May 26th, 16:30 – 18:30

“SpilBar finder sted hver anden måned. Alle i og omkring computerspilbranchen kan mødes og mingle – det starter altid med et oplæg og slutter med en drink.”

 

Top Upcoming Copenhagen Startup Events

June 1 – Accelerace Investor Day
June 8 – Copenhagen Ruby Brigade
June 9 – Venture Cup finals
June 10 – Copenhagen startups
June 14 – IBM Global Entrepreneur
June 16 – BioMed Community, windows of opportunity 2011
June 24-26 – Mobile Copenhagen Startup Weekend