A presentation about Cypriot Enterprise Link (CEL) delivered through the Show me the Money, Raising funding for startups event. The event was part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week Cyprus

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2. #GEWCy
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3. Game: Recognize the entrepreneur
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4. What exactly is CEL?
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5. Step 1: Entrepreneurial Awareness
Connect. Collaborate. Create.
The belief: Cyprus has talent
The task: Connect talent at the
grassroot level, build synergies
The goal: Facilitate a startup
creation process.
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6. Meetups
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7. 1st Hackathon in
Cyprus
80 Participants
15 Projects
4 Winners
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8. hack{cyprus} 2013
The biggest technology & startup happening in Cyprus
5 Days, 3 Events, 2 Networking parties
8 Judges, 7 Awards
14 International Speakers
400+ Participants (Aged 10 - 60)
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9. Pink Edition
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10. a growing network in 5 countries
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11. an open platform
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12. Step 2: Time for action
An entrepreneurial ecosystem
begins to manifest in 2 years
Successful Cypriot startups are on
the rise (Avocarrot, Streethub,
Teach’n’Go, Pollfish, Funifi and so
forth.)
Right time to back these efforts
with capital and infrastructure
Partnerships CEL - CYBAN
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13. Technical concepts 101
(crash course)
Angel investor - An investor who
provides financial backing for small startups
or entrepreneurs.
Venture Capitalist - An investor who
provides capital to startup ventures that
wish to expand without public funding
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14. Bootstrapping - Using personal finance or
operating revenues of the new company
Crowd-funding - Small amounts of capital
from a large number of individuals to finance a
new business venture
Seed-funding - Initial capital used to start a
business (e.g.: Bootstrap, AI etc)
Angel-investment - Investment is on
average around €50,000 and 2.5x multiple
Venture-Capital - Larger scale of private
investment - Round A is on av. €1.5 m
IPOs - Initial Public Offering to raise public
funding (listed on the stock exchange)
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16. Q&A
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17. NETWORKING
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19. Thank You
hi@projectcel.com
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