May 2012
10 posts
Chris Deering - Lessons from the Games Industry...
Chris Deering has worked at the helm of the computer games industry for decades with the likes of Atari, Sony and Codemasters. He spoke about mining the lessons from his long career in the gaming industry to digital strategy across industries.
In this talk, Chris looks at the ways the games industry has worked and connects the learnings to thinking about digital business strategies in general....
Rob Fitzpatrick: How to do early customer...
Rob Fitzpatrick is a HackFwd referrer and blogs at The Startup Toolkit. His latest project where he shares learnings is The Bootstrap Challenge.
In the beginning of the talk, Rob points out that while building software and products has become a lot faster, talking to people and getting feedback from them has not. The importance of doing early customer development is thus only underlined.
Rob...
Cobook launches: Smart address book for the Mac
We are proud to announce both the latest addition to our portfolio and an awesome product launch at the same time! Cobook is the smart address book for your Mac, and now available for free in the Mac App Store. Already popular with their beta product, Cobook’s 1.0 released today is a beautiful and powerful way of bringing together your contacts from the main social networks and combining...
Infogram's infographics webapp announced
Infogram has just announced their public beta version of the infographics application. With Infogr.am you can create and publish beautiful, interactive infographics based on any data you choose. You select a template, upload or enter your data for various graph types, add quotes, images and text, and decide the layout with a simple drag and drop interface. You can then take your infographics with...
HackFwd Build 0.10: Lineup and Tickets
Since the beginning, HackFwd has organized Build events as a part of our programme. For the first time, we are now opening the ticketing to selected applicants for the Saturday afternoon on 9 June at our Build 0.10 event in Berlin. You can now apply for a ticket (priced only to cover the costs) by 25 May.
We are very excited to announce the lineup for the afternoon:
Niklas Zennström, Atomico
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How Hike joined HackFwd
Here’s an awesome story from Hike on how they applied to Pitch In Berlin and ended up joining HackFwd. Includes cool photos from the last event! Yes, we bring retro arcades into the Build events, in addition to the coolest startups and the best speakers. Want to join us? Apply to Pitch in Berlin by the end Tuesday, May 15th! Hike applied 6 minutes before the deadline - so you too still have...
Pitch in Berlin deadline extended to May 15th
We have a very exciting announcement coming up on Monday regarding our Build events. For that reason, we wanted to extend the deadline of the Pitch in Berlin contest until the end of day Tuesday, May 15th. Given the quality received this far is already high, we’ve got our work cut out for us. Apply to Pitch in Berlin here!
Announcing Hike
We’re proud to announce Hike as the latest addition to our portfolio! Hike creates awesome apps for Facebook Pages and is based in Cologne, Germany. The startup has been in existence for less than a year but already their apps are used by 65,000 pages around the world. Join us in welcoming Hike by giving them a like on Facebook here (+195,000 people already have).
We’re particularly...
No Mentors at HackFwd?
You may have noticed HackFwd doesn’t have any mentors. Maybe you think that’s crazy given the fact that most startup incubators, accelerators, etc take great pride in their mentors and highlight them boldly on their websites. In fact, it appears that most startup programs believe the more mentors the better. If I’m a first time entrepreneur it must be reassuring to see 50, 60, 70 or 100+ people...
Rise of the Micro-VC - Sean Seton-Rogers at Build...
In this short and punchy talk Sean Seton-Rogers of PROFounders explains how the investment market is responding to today’s lean startups.
PROFounders Capital is based in London and currently has made 17 investments throughout Europe, including Tweetdeck and Made.com. PROFounders has an early stage focus tailored to fit closely with the lean startup way of running a business (also watch Alex...
