Startup Elites is an entrepreneurship bootcamp with a festival vibe. The 4 day event will provide great learning and networking opportunities, but it will also be a great chance for fun, relaxation and entertainment for the participants. Startup Elites will also be a spectacular team-building event for Romania’s future “one percenters”, the young people who have the ability to shape tomorrow’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
What will you learn exactly? Branding, Lean Startup Techniques, Growth Hacking, Design Thinking, How to Fund Your Startup, Legal Aspects, Mindfulness, Leadership.
The bootcamp will only be available free of charge for the best 30 students in the country each year - we will hand pick applicants based on their merits, activity, business ideas and determination and we will reward them with a ticket to the greatest ever non-conventional summer school.
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Startup Elites, formerly known as Startup Your Life, is the place to develop your idea, to meet new people that can help you change the world and a business bootcamp for the best. You will be engaged in workshops, networking, open air events during 4 days where you will meet entrepreneurs, experts and forward thinkers.
Some things you will learn:
How can you prepare your business so that you will multiply its turnover and expand? It is an important moment for which you must have essential growth strategies.
If you launched the product on the market, you must choose a suitable business model that will help you grow. Research is also important. You will learn how to do research at a minimal cost and how to better understand business models.
Find out how to deal, from a legal standpoint, with issues such as raising investment, protecting your startups intellectual property, being compliant from a privacy perspective, building better agreements that protect your work and partnerships.
Meet the best entrepreneurs from Romania for an informal dinner with them during Startup Elites.
Do you have all you need in order to understand the market and your team? Do you know how to avoid errors and not get trpped in your own preconceptions? You can learn this from a Critical Thinking workshop.
Learn how to develop a business from stratch and discover the most suitable market for a product of any kind.
How will you lead your team once it grows? How do you negotiate the relationship with the other founders? Many businesses disappear just because the teams are not cohesive enough. This workshop will help you learn how to manage everything better.
Learn efficient tactics that can help you get attention from the public and become viral even when you’re on a budget.
Radu Predescu will tell people how to build an organisational culture based on people and growing them.
How to finance your startup when you have maybe just an idea or an MVP? Ilinca Păun will tell you what she's looking for and what are the investors expecting from early stage companies.
Ciprian Borodescu a construit un startup - MorphL - pe care apoi l-a vândut către un gigant tech din Statele Unite, Algolia. El va vorbi relaxat în formatul de Story Time despre acest parcurs și ce poate învăța orice creator de afaceri din acest lucru.
We have 4 days of entrepreneurship workshops, fun and games. At the end of the camp you will go through a pitch session.
The schedule will be constantly updated.
Our speakers are amongst the best entrepreneurs and experts in Romania. We want them to be your guide at Startup Elites, but also to challenge to think different. The list of speakers will be updated constantly
SEE Head of Brand Marketing Services @ Glovo
Head @ Algolia (AI R&D) Romania
Chief Commercial Officer FAN Courier
Founder @ Blue Zygote™ Inception Lab
Cofounder @ Design Thinking Society
Angel investor +70 Startups
Founder @ Bravva Angels
CEO & co-founder @ FLOWX.AI
Chief Growth Officer @ Bitpanda
Cofounder&CMO @ Blindspot
Associate Dean @ Bucharest International School of Management (BiSM)
Director Executiv Autonom Lease
Cofounder @ Ventures’n’Law
Hotel Carmen is located in the heart of Predeal and is the ideal place for recreation, business meetings or private events. Hotel Carmen has preserved its structure over time, as the first buildings appeared in the third decade of the last century.
The structure was partially demolished in 2011 in order to build a new building, with European funds.