Startup Weekend Brussels 2014 was a successful event where teams worked over a 54 hour period to develop startup ideas. Participants pitched ideas on Friday, formed teams to work on projects Saturday, and presented their new startups to a jury on Sunday. The top three winning teams were Tiny Stories, an app to build cartoons in 60 seconds; Mailswipe, an app to manage emails on the go; and Birzo, an online platform using a Tinder-like app for craft beers. The event is a way for entrepreneurs to learn skills, build networks, and potentially launch new businesses.

1. Startup Weekend Brussels 2014
A Huge Success!

2. Organized for entrepreneurs
by entrepreneurs
Startup Weekends are 54 hours events where designers,
developers, marketers and project managers work
together in teams to turn an idea into a fully shaped
project and lauch their startups!

3. Brussels Figures

4. World figures

5. Event program
Friday evening:
Participants pitch their
ideas in 60 seconds,
then vote for the best
ideas and form a dozen
teams.
Saturday:
Teams work on their
startup, build a business
model and validated
their hypothesis.
Sunday evening:
Teams pitch their newly
built startup in front of
a jury of professionals.

6. Brussels winners - 1st Prize
The Best Startup Prize went to Tiny Stories, an app
designed to help you build a cartoon in 60 seconds. The
jury was unanimous. Tiny Stories also received The Great
Jury Prize. Their moto was: Be a kid for 60 seconds.

8. Brussels winners – 2nd Prize
The Geekest Startup Prize went to Mailswipe, an app
that allows you to sort and take quick actions for your
mails on the go so that you can use all the time you are
loosing in the queues, elevators, boring meetings to sort
your mailbox.

9. Brussels winners – 3rd Prize
The Leanest Startup Prize went to Birzo, an online
platform using a Tinder-like website/app in which you
like or dislike beers by swiping pictures of craft beer
labels.

10. Why should you attend a Startup Weekend ?
• Learn
new
skills
• Build
your
network
• Launch
a
new
business
• Meet
a
co-­‐founder
• Get
face
9me
with
thought
leaders
• Save
money
&
get
stuff
• Join
a
global
community

11. « If we compare the cost for organizing such an event
and the number of startups that are actually launched
after Startup Weekend, the return on investment is
among the highest in the country. »
Nathanael Ackerman from Impulse Brussels
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12. You too, organize a Startup Weekend in your city!
http://startupweekend.org

13. Sponsors

14. Partners