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AVL List gewinnt InnovationCamp 2013

Alle Teams des InnovationCamp 2013

InnovationCamp bringt Firmen maßgeschneiderte Innovationen

Beim InnovationCamp 2013 haben die beteiligten Unternehmen – vom Messgerätehersteller für die Automobilindustrie bis zum Immobilienunternehmen – zwölf kreative Lösungsansätze mit nach Hause genommen. Für die besten drei Ergebnisse erhielten die Siegerteams ein Preisgeld von insgesamt 6.000 Euro.

Der Prozess

Ende August 2013 startete der Innovationsprozess auf der Ideenplattform Neurovation. Zehn Unternehmen stellten 8.000 Usern der Plattform zwölf Fragen. Im nächsten Schritt wurden 262 Einreichungen 2.152 mal durch die Community bewertet. Anschließend wählten die Firmen aus den Ideengebern ihre Kernteams für die weitere Detailarbeit aus. Diese Teams trafen sich beim Innovationskongress in Villach. Zusätzlich erhielten sie Unterstützung von Designern, die ihre Ideen beisteuerten und die entstandenen Produkt- und Dienstleistungsideen visualisierten. Knapp 80 Kreative arbeiteten vom 13. bis 15. November an ganz verschiedenen Problemstellungen. 

Das Siegerteam von AVL List

Die Sieger

Auf Platz eins schaffte es das aus acht Mitgliedern bestehende Team AVL List mit intelligenten Messgeräten für die Entwicklung von Antriebssystemen.

„Ich war sehr überrascht wie viel neue Ideen und andere Sichtweisen entstehen. Das war wirklich einmalig“,

beschreibt Horst Pfluegl, Global Research Program Manager bei der AVL List GmbH, seine Erfahrungen.

„Wir haben firmenintern schon  Innovationsworkshops abgehalten, aber hier waren die Rahmenbedingungen und die Atmosphäre etwas Besonderes.“

Das Siegerteam setzte sich aus drei Vertretern der AVL List GmbH, zwei Designerinnen und drei Ideengebern der Neurovation-Plattform zusammen. Einer von ihnen ist Peter Pölzleitner: Als Industriewirtschaftstudent an der FH Joanneum und Absolvent der FH Wels (Innovations- und Produktmanagement) ist Innovation seine Passion. Er hat schon an verschiedensten Ideenwettbewerben teilgenommen und ist nun bereits zum dritten Mal unter den Siegern. Was ist sein Antrieb?

„Bei solchen Wettbewerben kann ich meine Kreativität ausleben“,

sagt er,

„außerdem kann man auf solchen Plattformen interessante Persönlichkeiten kennenlernen und wichtige Kontakte knüpfen.“

Platz 2: Petschacher (Sensorsysteme für "intelligente Brücken"). Platz 3: VAMED (Tool zum Entdecken und Fördern von Talenten in Unternehmen).

Weitere Informationen zu den Wettbewerben finden Sie auf www.neurovation.at bzw. der Ideenplattform www.neurovation.net/innovationcamp

Fazit: Das erste InnovationCamp hat sich bewährt und das Format soll auch in Zukunft Unternehmen bei der Suche nach Innovationen unterstützen.

For Small Caps: The PIPEs Converence 2013

Source: DealFlow Event

Join on November 4th at The Westin Times Square, New York for the most important event in the small cap deal market.    

This years agenda features a full day of topics of importance to all professionals in the small cap equity market.The event covers more than just direct investments and PIPEs... sessions include discussions on the latest funding structures, how technology is changing the market, online funding portals, reverse mergers, SPACs, stock trading issues and the new proposal from the SEC on equity crowdfunding.

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In NYC learn about CrowdFunding

NYU Stern Room 3 - 80

44 West 4 Street, NY (map)

Learn about crowdfunding from the experts in the industry, find out how the security based debt and equity platforms are operating today. 

Agenda:

• 6:00pm -6:10pm : Networking
• 6:10pm - 6:30pm: Alex Feldman will present a high level overview of Crowdfunding, will go over the history of crowdfunding, different types of crowdfunding, and why businesses will want to use one type of funding versus another
• 6:30pm - 6:50pm: Michael Taormina will talk the debt based platform CommonBond
• 6:50pm - 7:10pm: Aaron Kellner will talk about equity based platform SeedInvest
• 7:10pm - 7:30pm: Questions

Alex Feldman, Stern MBA Alumni, CEO of CrowdsUnite: 

Alex helps small businesses with raising money online. He is CEO of CrowdsUnite which is the largest review site for funding platforms. Alex was mentioned in publications like the Huffington post. His writings about crowdfunding were published on major websites like crowdsourcing.org . 

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Berlin - socialbar

In Berlin am Dienstag, 5. November ab 19 Uhr

taz Café, Rudi-Dutschke-Str. 23

socialbar

Seattle: VC, Angel And Crowd Investing Event

SUMMIT LAW GROUP

Thursday, June 20, 2013


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The Soho Loft
and 
FundingPost
present

Seattle VC & Angel Event
Sponsored by Summit Law Group

Interested in meeting early-stage Venture Capitalists in Seattle? Then register for the FundingPost Venture and Angel Event on Thursday, June 20, 2013 FundingPost has hosted 220+ sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 12 years. At our next Seattle Event, the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing:

How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! We will be discussing trends in Early-Stage Investing, hot sectors, sectors that these Angels and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an Investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, additional advice for entrepreneurs, and, of course, the best ways to reach these and other Investors. There will be plenty of time for networking with the Investor panelists, both before the panel & after the panel at the Cocktail Party! As an additional benefit, entrepreneur 1/4 page summaries will be given to the investor speakers and attendees. All of the Investors will get your company description and contact info! Register today, as this event will sell-out and is limited! There are only 61 tickets left. Additionally, there will be an Optional Pitching Workshop Lunch from 11am-1pm. The cost to participate will be $350. This Lunch Workshop includes the $75 ticket to the event. During this workshop we will completely deconstruct your elevator pitch, and work with you on formulating a clean and concise elevator pitch giving the important information that investors NEED to hear to make an educated decision on your company! Then you get to give your new Elevator Pitch in person to the Panel of Investors during the event! There are only 10 spaces left in the Workshop.

Location: Summit Law Group

315 Fifth Avenue South, Suite 1000 Seatlle, WA 98104

Date: Thursday, June 20, 2013

Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm

Cost:

- Entrepreneur Raising Capital - Event: $75

- Entrepreneur Event + Pitching Workshop (14 left): $350

- Investor / Service Provider: $85

- Entrepreneur Event + Pitching Workshop + Massolution 2013CF The CROWDFUNDING INDUSTRY REPORT: $495 (include 2 tickets)

Real People About Real Money

EU Workshop On Crowdfunding

Konferencja Crowdfunding w Polsce

Crowdfunding Goes Mainstream

A few short years ago, crowdfunding, or raising large sums of money by soliciting many small donations, was an off-the-beaten-path grassroots movement largely relegated to artists. Not anymore. Crowdfunding has captured the attention of cable TV producers at CNBC and A&E, real-estate mogul Donald Trump and tech behemoth Google.

While crowdfunding is gaining steam, it needs the megaphone of a larger media company like A&E to bring the eyeballs and the dollars, Meece says. In addition to giving exposure to the featured entrepreneurs, the partnership has also inspired entrepreneurship. RocketHub has seen a 300 percent increase in the number of entrepreneurs who have launched projects on the platform since the A&E partnership was announced last month.

For purists, turning crowdfunding into entertainment is a thinly veiled attempt to piggyback on a hot trend. 

True crowdfunding is not a competition or a contest in the way that Donald Trump or reality TV is suggesting,

Brad Damphousse, CEO of crowdfunding platform GoFundMe, says in an email. 

Rather, these creative spinoffs are attempts to capitalize on the massive growth the crowdfunding space is currently experiencing.

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Crowd Rules TV - The Premiere Episode

Crowd Rules Starts At 9 PT

In the all new competition series Crowd Rules, three small businesses try to convince a panel of experts and the studio audience that their business deserves $50,000!  Who will win over the crowd tonight –the mother & daughter pickle store, the family-run exotic ice cream company or the hot shot chef turned fiery foods entrepreneur? Only one will be left standing, with more than just bragging rights, once the CROWD RULES!  Tonight 9p ET/PT - CNBC Prime.

Watch the sneak peak


Meet the Contestants

Heureka Conference 2013

Heute tritt @mundustorsten auf der #hrk13 im "Pitch Fight" an, dann mal guten "Kampf"!
— Tame (@tame_it) May 14, 2013

@tame_it Go For The Final@mundustorsten ! Reichweite ausnutzen! Tiefschläge sind erlaubt! Drei Varianten!
— Eric Schreyer (@EricSchreyer) May 14, 2013

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Contribute To AOL Show About Crowdfunding!

Announcement:

That’s right, we make television now (or the thing that looks and acts like a television but still allows snobby people to say “I don’t have a television”). We are partnering with AOL Studios to produce a show about crowdfunded businesses in the United States. It’s called FUNDED. I’ll be hosting it. Brian will spearhead the writing and producing. Craig will handle most of the glaring. Slate wrote about it this week along with Huffington Post.

We’re excited to talk with entrepreneurs around the country about why they chose the crowdfunding path, how they work with their supporters, and what they are doing with all this money!

We would love your help, especially in finding stories and questions. Please, if you know of any cool, under-the-radar crowdfunding stories or even if you’re simply interested in the subject—hell, maybe you are crowdfunding your own project RIGHT NOW—share your brain with us.

If you are anti-link clicking, then here’s that same chance to share ideas with us embedded. We look out for our people. Cultivated Wit

Michelle's Highlights From ACA Summit 2013 in San Francisco

Highlights From ACA Summit 2013 in San Francisco

Start a huge, foolish project

like Noah ... it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you (Rumi)

Rumi

THE FLOOD: Highlights from Michael Cayley's panel at Angel Capital Association Summit in San Francisco and others including Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Dave McClure (500Startups), Ayden Senkut (Shopify investor Felicis Ventures), David Rose (Guest, NY Angels), Rory Ekin (CircleUp) and more.

by Michael Cayley, Founder of the highly sophisticated cdling.com:

During day one, Anurag Nigam, providing perspective from his experience of doing 60-plus angel investments (many through Sand Hill Angels), said that “Given what is going on withAngelList, SecondMarket, and crowdfunding, it looks like within three to five years angel investments will be a liquid asset class,” and an audible murmur shot through the audience.

In an entertaining Keynote Panel entitled “Thought Leaders in Entrepreneurial Growth and Finance” we were all expecting Dave McClure to light up the room with his renowned colourful language and scathing attacks on traditional venture capitalists but it was Felicis Ventures‘ (investor in Ottawa based Shopify) Aydin Senkut who first praised McClure for creating “the world’s first global angel brand” and then goaded the audience with the question, “Who here is part of a regional angel group, investing based upon region?”

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Must have: Liveblogging the accredited crowdfunding panel

re:publica 2013: Open Data

re:publica: Weder süß noch salzig!

re:publica 2013: Let's Talk About Content

re:publica: Dieter Zetsche, das vernetzte Auto