I was invited at Boondoggle Bright (Leuven, Belgium) to talk about StartupBus. Boondoggle Bright is holding an internal hackathon series focused on the Internet of Things called "hackathing". The StartupBus Europe 2011 documentary can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcNOub4WpVo

1. #hackathing
04 Apr 14 - boondoggle leuven

2. hi

3. I’m @stevenbeeckman

4. i am a!
BUSPRENEUR

5. What is StartupBus?

6. roadtrip

7. hackathon on wheels

8. international
competition

9. startupweekend?

10. it breaks you

11. and it builds you

12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ6IcYwVxV0

13. startupbus builds people

14. building by
experience

15. building thanks to
mentors and coaches

17. or Guy Kawasaki

18. “VC’s care about sales,
not about free users”

19. always be pitching

20. all the fucking time

21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7w7c2ZHToo

22. Smart Host

23. what’s your pitch?

24. what’s a good pitch?

25. attention

26. user need

27. introduce your team

28. traction
#fans, #users and #sales

29. “show your product”
Guy Kawasaki

30. MVP?

31. http://secure-sea-3837.herokuapp.com/
A tweetwall with pictures from Instagram, twitter.com, twitpic

32. Fucking twitpic?

33. minimum viable
product

34. Everything should be
made as simple as
possible, but not simpler.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/

35. systems engineering
http://www.saylor.org/sse-enrollment-page/

36. the team

38. because you need people
to build things

39. leadership

40. stand up

41. take initiative

42. StartupBus Europe 2011 - The Documentary

44. conclusions

45. 5 lessons

46. 1. time is a luxury

47. 2. excel
it’s all about execution!

48. validate validate validate
premature detonation
3. get out

49. 4. iterate
pivot

50. 5. insanely effective
small teams are amazing

51. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvk60frkS74

52. good luck & enjoy!
@stevenbeeckman
http://www.startupbus.com