SXSW: Meet gutsy woman and entrepreneur Ashley Woodruff
One of the best things about SXSW, is getting the chance to talk to strangers who have great stories to tell. Ashley Woodruff is that kind of person: only 23 years old, she knows what she wants and has known so since her first invention at age 7, a “bug vacuum” to protect bugs while cleaning. An entrepreneur at heart, she has now even greater projects in mind: an incubator for entrepreneurs in New-York City, called InnoHouse, where five roommates […]
We were at SXSW 2012! StartupBusTV and more epic times
It was a first time for Viadeo at the biggest tech event of the year, South By Southwest. Sponsoring StartupBus TV, along with Live-U, Tropo and The Next Web, we were able to meet some of the most promising entrepreneurs of tomorrow, and providing you readers with a live stream of some of the best events. Many laughs, beautiful encounters and stressful moments, with a result of 16 live shows, more than 100,000 views and being featured on the front […]
SXSW live: watch the StartupBus teams sharpen their pitches live at Rackspace HQ!
Viadeo/Entrepreneurs You’re not at SXSW 2012, the biggest tech event of the year? Not a problem, the Viadeo Blog will be giving you access to the best events and parties LIVE thanks to Hermione Way and her crew, featured on The Next Web and Ustream! StartupBus.tv follows the 11 “tribes” as they call it, that had the difficult but exciting task to launch a startup on their ride to Austin. They made it – what now? They will be judged […]
Launch a startup in 72 hours on a bus ride to Austin’s SXSW!
Want to launch a startup? Want to road trip across the United-States? Or just looking for updates on the coolest hackathon of the year? Find out more here about StartupBus 2012! Viadeo is a proud sponsor of StartupBus TV 2012 and will also be broadcasting live from the biggest tech event of all, South by Southwest 2012 edition, along with tech star Hermione Way and her Newspepper crew! StartupBus, founded by young entrepreneur Elias Bizannes, started in Europe a few years […]
Viadeo Dev Challenge: Meet the winners!
Developers from around the world submitted their applications to the Viadeo Dev Challenge, a 5-week long competition, which ended on Sunday, October 16th. After evaluating the apps individually first, jury members met for the final deliberation at Viadeo’s San Francisco office on Friday the 21st. Robert Scoble, Myles Weissleder, Richard Ling, Hermione Way, Kin Lane (who couldn’t be there on Friday), Arturo Garrido and Christophe Thibault decided on the three winners below: First prize winner: AvriGeo is a 3D visualization […]
Create your own start up in 54 hours!
Have you ever dreamed about creating your own business? This was the dream of the more than 200 people who showed up at AOL headquarters for the Bay Area Startup Weekend in Palo Alto on August 5-6. 54 business/tech start-up ideas were pitched and then 15 of them were selected for people to work on with the ultimate aim being to create a viable business by the end of the weekend. Start-up mentors Iein Valdez, Hiten Shah, and Teddy Zmrhal were on […]
Launch48 Edinburgh
For those of you that don’t know, Launch48 is an event which brings together business people, techies and designers to launch a business in 48 hours. Sounds crazy, well that’s because it is! I spoke at the conference before the event kicked off and managed to stick around for the initial pitches. Twelve people gave business ideas for one minute each and then the audience voted down to a final four. These four would go on to become businesses by […]
