April 2011
10 posts
sharypic launches Royal Wedding site
sharypic showcases their product with a special site that collects photos live from multiple feeds and sources and sorts out the best ones. The site at willandkate.sharypic.com currently checks photos based on Twitter hashtags for example. In the future, the service will feature many powerful tools for event photo collection, moderation and sharing. The product is shaping up to be very exciting,...
Dear Startup Weekend Participants, Speak English...
For 30 years I spoke only one language and I was lucky enough that one language could get me by just about anywhere I went. I didn’t choose it, but I was born in the US and English is my native language. It’s a fortunate chance. 13 years ago, I moved to France and didn’t see the need to learn the language, until I wanted to stay. Learning French was one of the best things I ever did. It allowed me...
PR for Startups - Talk from Build 0.5
Celine Lazorthes, CEO and founder of Leetchi.com gave a presentation on the basics of PR for startups at HackFwd’s Build 0.5 event in Mallorca.
In this talk, Celine listed the best practices from her professional experience and the lessons she had learned about working with the press with her own startup, Leetchi.com. First, in the case of technical developers, you have to embrace...
Delta Strike goes 3D using Flash Molehill
This is a guest blog post by the Delta Strike team, Michael Plank, Andrzej Kozlowski and Alex Seifert, on the development of their browser-based 3D sci-fi game.
In March 2011 Adobe announced Molehill, a set of GPU-accelerated APIs for Flash. One week later the Delta Strike team put their first tech demo using Molehill, code name “Buffalo”, online. Being totally overwhelmed by the...
Coding is Music - Talk from Build 0.5
Chris Boos is a HackFwd referrer and Jean-Paul Schmetz is a HackFwd Board member. In the talk at Build 0.5 in Mallorca they chart the path from being a punk hacker to becoming a rock star programmer.
All of us know music. Those of us who have made our own music will know that there are not many things that can stir more passion in you. The interesting thing is that passion will take you...
TheDeadline graduates from HackFwd
HackFwd’s first portfolio companies are graduating from the program. TheDeadline, an intelligent real-time task manager for individuals and teams, was built under the auspices of HackFwd for 12 months, launched to beta on time and now is growing rapidly. TheDeadline is a task manager, equally suited for the needs of teams or individuals, with built-in AI features that help you to never lose...
Gamification - Talk from Build 0.5
Andrzej Kozlowski is Founder and Creative Director at Pro3Games, the company behind Delta Strike. He is a gamer and a game designer. You can follow him at @CapKozmaty
Gamification is a big topic currently. Andrzej Kozlowski gives us a different perspective by looking at it from a gamer’s perspective under the full title “Achievement Unlocked! - Gamification Explained From A...
Ideas Suck: A Tale of Lust vs Love
This is a guest blog post by Chris Prescott, Founder and CEO of Fantasy Shopper, a social shopping startup launching in the Summer 2011 You can follow him on Twitter at @cpresc
It’s often said that great idea + great execution = great startup. Sure, that’s a reasonable summary, but the real ingredients of a great startup are most certainly not just 50% great idea. You know why?
Ideas suck.
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Starting Up in Europe
With the release of The Telegraph’s European Start-Up 100, Europe gets another benchmark for tech companies that are looking to break it big. From our perspective, the list mostly features companies quite far into their startup life, but it provides an interesting perspective into what the European startup landscape is looking like. There are certainly successes, with many more on the way.
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Building Great Teams - Talk from Build 0.5
Tine Thygesen is the founder of Everplaces, and previously lead for example 23 and Venture Cup Denmark. She is also the co-founder of Founders House in Copenhagen. You can see Tine’s full profile here.
Tine Thygesen’s talk at Build 0.5 focused on the three things entrepreneurs must do right in order to build great teams. Tine notes that entrepreneurs tend to have a couple of bad...
