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Startup Weekend Romania

Ever wondered what it takes to be an entrepreneur?
The professional and personal challenges, the high and lows, the failures and the success?
Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011.

The non-profit organization is headquartered in Seattle, Washington but Startup Weekend organizers and facilitators can be found in over 200 cities around the world. From Mongolia to South Africa to London to Brazil, people around the globe are coming together for weekend long workshops to pitch ideas, form teams, and start companies.

All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by popular vote) and then it’s a 54 hour frenzy of business model creation, coding, designing, and market validation. The weekends culminate with presentations in front of local entrepreneurial leaders with another opportunity for critical feedback.

Whether entrepreneurs found companies, find a cofounder, meet someone new, or learn a skill far outside their usual 9-to-5, everyone is guaranteed to leave the event better prepared to navigate the chaotic but fun world of startups. If you want to put yourself in the shoes of an entrepreneur, register now for the best weekend of your life!

March 12, 2013 | Irina Albu

Welcome to RomanianStartups.com!

We built this Romanian Internet tech startups directory with the intent to showcase the technology/Internet startup scene in Romania in such way that if a foreigner (but not only) wants to have a look at a glance he can do it here, on our website.

Not only the tech startups are listed here, but also their founders. The listing would not be complete without having on it also the tech accelerators/incubators as well as the tech events throughout Romania.

The startups/accelerators/incubators/founders and events will be presented in rich details, including the possibility to be contacted through a contact form (as well as having listed other presence of them like Facebook, Twitter, websites).

Hope you enjoy your visit here and let others know about us. Please read also About RS.

We do have a Facebook group, a Facebook page and a Facebook list as well as a Twitter account where you can find us. Please join, like, follow or tweet about us.

We welcome any feedback you may have. Please send us an email using the contact form from the Contact page.

Thank you!

February 28, 2013 | Romanian Startups

General

Contact

Please send us any feedback you may have regarding our website.

Also, suggestions about the startups, accelerators/incubators, founder are welcomed. Tell us how to improve.

February 27, 2013 | Romanian Startups

Open Connect

OpenConnect is an open space where people can meet, pitch, mentor others and provide feedback. As a matter of fact, feedback is the most important byproduct of OpenConnect. Usual audience is around 70 people in the location and 3000 viewers of the live stream (as of March 2013).

We meet each Thursday from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM at the Starbucks Mall Vitan, Bucharest. Summer pause between June and August.

The structure:

– ice-breaking, each attendee will tell his name, occupation, what can provide to the Oc community and what he expects from it.
– pitches: 4 slots, 1 minute each. A pitch can contain anything, a personal presentation, a project, an idea, an event, as long as the pitcher is keeping it under 1 minute and he’s prepared to face the feedback from the audience
– mentoring: 8 minute of a free talk on a certain topic, on which the mentor is an expert. We had mentoring on intellectual property, angel investing and search engine optimization, but also on Argentine tango, improvisation or how to create a press release.
– networking: one to one interaction, partnerships inquiries, casual talks

March 6, 2013 | Romanian Startups

About RS

The story of our beginning…

RomanianStartups.com brings together, in one place, all Romanian technology and Internet related startups, founders, accelerators/incubators, events, co-working spaces, mentors, investors and makes it a one-stop-shop for all the information needed to get an overall view of what is happening in the Romanian tech field.

The location of these startups, accelerators/incubators, events, and established companies doesn’t matter as long as at least one of
these entities’ co-founder is Romanian. The location can be in Romania or abroad.

Romanian Startups Facebook group came to be around May 2012, being established by David Nagy – a young Romanian entrepreneur. During some discussions there the idea of a startups directory emerged.

Mircea Goia – a Romanian technologist and web developer living in United States – bought the domain name RomanianStartups.com (along others related) and started to draw the wireframe of the website which you are using today. This happened around June 2012.
After researching the platform on which the website should be built, he decided to use an open source one (which runs on LAMP), obviously.
A Romanian team was hired by Mircea to design the look and feel of the website based on the wireframe he put together. In this role, Mircea acted as a project manager and product designer (beside being an investor) making sure his vision for the site stays on course during the development time.
After several months of reiteration and bringing new developers on-board the website launched in private beta around the 1st of March 2013.
Since then, Mircea contacted Romanian startups, accelerators/incubators, events and their founders inviting them to be part of this initiative of showing the world the Romanian technology/Internet startup scene.
More than 300 entities (startups, accelerators/incubators, events, co-working spaces) and over 580 founders joined RomanianStartups.com since then and they continue to join (see the Stats page).

RomanianStartups.com is present on:
– Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RomanianStartups (has over 26,000 followers)
– Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/romanianstartups – has over 21,000 members – one of the most active business groups in Romania)
– Twitter: https://twitter.com/rostartups

Feel free to like/follow/join us there.

If you want to use our badge/logos on your website or Facebook/Twitter profile (to help promote the community) please download the zip file containing the images (right-click and Save Link as…or just click on the link).

Any feedback you have please send it using the Contact page.

About Mircea Goia
He was born and raised in Romania (now living in United States), where he got introduced to the computers and Internet 12 years ago. Prior to this, he worked in a totally different field.
Mircea-Goia-RomanianStartups Since that time Mircea worked as a web developer for foreign companies while still living in Romania, where he was building websites and e-commerce websites. He also donated part of his time to a non-profit organization building local communities websites (he formed and led a tech team for that non-profit).

Mircea loves the startups scene in the United States and Romania and is involved in one American startup which combines technology and filmmaking named Cinely.com – the filmmaker’s platform (advisor, marketing). Another American startup where he is involved as advisor is LocalMediaGroup.com (in its various enterprises).
He also advised some other Romanian startups in the past like Golibre.co, uberVU.com, InteraktMedia.com.

In the past he wrote for TheNextWeb.com when the well-known now tech publication was just starting (2008) and ReadWrite.com.
Nowadays, he is still writing but this time for two leading Romanian newspapers as a blogger (Adevarul.ro) and a contributor (Forbes.ro).

His other passion is filmmaking – directing movies (doing some producing for now).

More details about Mircea Goia can be found on his personal website www.mirceagoia.com but also on Facebook, Twitter, Quora or using the Contact page on RomanianStartups.com.

February 27, 2013 | Romanian Startups

RomanianStartups.com

The Romanian Internet Tech Startups Directory