okay, nice big break! Thank you very much for coming here today. My name is
Michael and I will be your guide for today
me and my colleagues, we work in South Moravian Innovation Centre and we help people
to create companies that change the world
creating company is always kind of big step to the unknown for most of the
teams so it's not always successful
when we started Starcube three years ago just two teams finshed the program
one year later we get to eight
and this year you will see fourteen projects
so it's seven times more than in two thousand ten, when we started with the
program
there are almost two hundred people in audience today, so it's quite tough for, not
only for me,sure
but also for our startup teams which are sitting here, because for most of them
this is the very first time, for most of them, they are presenting in public.
So I want you
to be kind to them because they might be scared to death, they might forget
what they wanted to tell you, they might fall down from this stage because this
is kind of unusual place. So please, be supportive. I want you to give big
applause to everyone who is climbing up this stairs. So let's try: I will go
down and pretend that I am some special successful startup. So I want you to
get ready
nice, but not good enough. Let's try one more time
okay, so keep that in your... keep that in your mi and so be as
much supportive for each team who is climbing the stairs or for everyone who is
going up
so
today we are here to also inspire you. Do you want to inspire those people
who didn't started any company yet? I think there are some of those people in
the audience and we want you to try as much as you can in the
future to make your ideas come true
for those of you whose knowledge about Starcube might be a little blunt, let me
tell you briefly what it is
Starcube is a Startup Akcelerator program, first of its kind in Czech Republic. We started
three years ago as a student oriented pre-incubation program for much older incubation program of
South Moravian Innovation Centre
companies in incubation program has a year
turnover over one billion czech crowns and we want to make it higher with teams
who are here in Starcube
during the last three years we have come a long way. We established a lot
of interesting partnerships with companies and organisations and we also gained a lot of experience
thanks to our mentors and lectures who helped us a lot
our alumni such as GINA CUPtech Celebrio or Universator achieved a lot of interesting international
awards
we change a name and we also change the scheme of the program but what
is the same all the time is a focus
focus on people
extraordinary people with the passion for their ideas
and today you will see what can passionate people do in a three months
you cannot ask father who is his favourite kid, so I cannot be the judge
for today. So I invited people who will be judges for today and who will
decide this height who is the better one and who is not
so let me introduce you our court of experts
from my left to right: I cannot see... yeah, JD from Meebee; than Jiri Krechl
from Czechinvest
Sandra Kumorowski from Chicago
Stanislav Kopecek from PwC, Price Waterhouse Coopers; Jan Tauber from Genesis Capital
we wouldn't be here without some financial support, of course. Fundraising is also quite tough
thing, so we tried a lot of stuff
we also asked for public money
and sometimes we were successful
so those are our partners who gave us support, not only money, but their time,
their effort to... for our teams to get better. So I want you to give
nice applause also for these people because without their support we wouldnt't be here today
also important was European Union, actually, who really supported us. So, this particular event is
paid by European Union. So please, once more
so, I do the job
today we will see fourteen projects
fourteen two minute presentations from our teams
there will be no questions and answer panel during this stage, so listen carefully, because
in the other part of the day or during the break you will be voting
for your most favourite team
these will be two minutes presentations, two minutes sharp. So, if someone runs out of
time the team will be stopped
during the break, which will take fourty five minutes, our board of experts will decide
who is in the top five
and also, you can vote for your favourite team. There will be also small award
for one, someone, who gives his vote, or her vote, for
so, after the break, there will be top five. We will have five presentations by
five minutes and each presentation after five minutes will have ten minutes for questions and
answers panel with our jury
then there will be another break, shorter one, to decide who is number one, two
and three
so, there will be awarding ceremony. But before that, we'll show you some success stories
about former successful startups from Starcube
so, awarding ceremony and then networking event. I hope you will stay because there are
a lot of interesting people right here: marketers, developers, metrocapitalists, business angels. So, network as
much as you can, because this is the place where our startups gathered today
before we proceed to the presentations from our teams, let me remind you a few
rules about this... how we can behave, or we have to behave in this special
place. So, no cell phones, please. I can see a lot of you have running
your laptops or cell phones. If there is this light open, or if this light
shines, it's quite okay if you have open laptop. But when the light goes dark,
you are illuminating the place and people cannot see the canvas so much
so, also no food or drinks inside, actually in this place, but outside is okay
and no smoking for smokers no smoking even on the terrace. So, in the evening,
please, if you need to go for smoking, there is some kinder playground down in
the park
you can try there
and also, there are two doors. Use it as the aerochambers. I don't know if
you watch science fiction movies, so small instruction. If there is aerochamber, you have to
open one door, step inside, close the door and then open the second door and
go outside
because, if you open the door totally, first and second, there will be also light
coming inside
so, use it as the aerochamber
and don't forget
it was just as the reminder; don't forget to give applause for every team who
is going upstairs
so, ladies and gentleman
new stars will shine on the startup sky today. Let me introduce you