DLEU Salon presentation from Emilio Corchado, Coordinator, WELCOME Project, on the topic of Making Europe's Businesses More Digital.

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Coordinator: Bisite Accelerator
Emilio Corchado
WELCOME
Partners

2. a.Access to the Right Talent
b.Going across Borders
c. Access to the Right Combination of
Finances
d. Successful Case
e. Ambition
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Index

3. a. Access to the Right Talent
8 Hackathons
Visual Map (Berlin-Dublin-Madrid-Milan-Salamanca)
16 Workshops
• Today my startup failed
• Business game: Start doing!
• Ruby on Rails/ to inspire women to become coders.
Celebrations: 2 panEU nights
Wannabe entrepreneurs & early stage startups
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4. Designthinking
Madrid 27F-1M
Inspiring wannabes
Milan 5 March
Ciber security/
Entrepreneurship
Salamanca 5 March
Disruptive Technologies
Salamanca 24 February
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5. b. Going Across Borders
Cross-border mentorship: 16 startups
Example: Berlin: Design, 3D-printing, Music
2 Roadshows:
-16 seed startups/ 2 intensive weeks
-120 scale-ups/ 2 large events + satellites
Europass: 32 seed startups attending 2 top
level events
Unicorns Forum (first meeting at #SES15-
13 unicorns & Vice-president Ansip)
Accelerators Assembly: 60 accelerators.
Next meeting at Startup Ole (Salamanca 9-11th Sep
2015)
Early stage & scale-up startups
Unicorns Forum SES
Berlin12-13 February
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6. SE Joint booth
Roundtable
Milan 16-19 March
Barcamper
Berlin12-13 March
Networking session
Madrid 17-18 February
Welcome stand
Unicorn Forum
Berlin 12-13 February
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7. Early & scale-up startups
Crowdfunding: building a EU portal+best practices.
Meet-ups/roadshows:conecting startups with
BA+VCs+Crowdfuning
8 Matchmaking events for 32 startups with
corporates & Smart finance.
c. Access to the Right Combination of Finances
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8. Crowdfunding
Madrid 24 February
Dpixel Barcamper
Berlín 12-13 (SMAU)
Raising money Madrid 23 -24 March
VC and angels workshop
Salamanca 24 February
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9. Smart finance
Media impact
d. Successful Case
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10. 22,000 prospective web and mobile
entrepreneurs to be reached
480 early stage startups supported
through WELCOME activities to launch
their operations
152scale-up stage
startups scaled up
through WELCOME
activities
e. Ambition
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11. EASME STARTUP EUROPE – H2020 Brussels, xxx March 2015
escorchado@usal.es
@escorchado11
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www.welcomestartup.eu
@StartupEU #StartupEurope
#Entrepreneuropeans
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