As you know we selected 14 start-ups that will present in front of Judges during DAY TWO (please take a look at final event’s schedule – we will have 3 one-hour competition sessions).

Every start-up will have 7 minutes of presentation time followed by 4 minutes of comments + questions & answers time (11 minutes total). Judges will be provided with evaluation sheets so that they could benchmark an invidual presentation according to business criteria (business model, team, promotional strategy, competition).

In addition to judges’ voting we will conduct another voting among all observers via SMS.

At the end of DAY TWO we will award three start-ups from 2 categories – professional voting and observers voting.

Order of start-up presentations during DAY TWO

11.30 – Startup Competition – PART ONE

• erasmuse.pl
• mob.pl
• iprezenty.pl
• filmaster.com
• naspolke.pl

13:00 – Startup Competition – PART TWO

• mololo.pl
• listonic.pl
• marro.ws
• poznajpasazera.pl

15:00 – Start-Up Competition – PART THREE

• gieldagwiazd.pl
• liga-kibicow.pl
• crazymenu.com
• wrapme.pl

We’d like to announce that we already know the place where the afterparty will be held.

On Saturday at 20:00 we’ll meet at Blueberry bar – newly open club, located in the heart of the city. You’ll certainly like this place for its cosy atmosphere, aesthetics and interesting design.

How to get there?

Blueberry bar is located at Św. Marcin 40, about 20 minutes on foot from Poznan International Fair.

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In theory good project doesn’t need advertisement. In practice, however, you need to convince others that your start-up is worth interesting and financing. Now you have this opportunity with a special project created by lookr.tv – “Elevator to success”.

The rules are simple: during the Democamp lookr.tv will record 2 minute speech about your project. The only thing you should do is to answer following questions:

- What is your start-up?
- Who is the target of your project? What benefits he gets from your site and why?
- What is your business model?
- Are there any competitive projects on the market? If so, what makes your start-up different from them?
- What does your project need to succeed?

Here’s the link to exemplary clip.

During the Democamp every project will be able to obtain such a clip, regardless of whether it takes part in Start-up Competition or presents at the start-up exhibition space. The only thing you should do is to be prepared for a short speech about your project.

“Elevator to Success” offers your start-up great promotion on the network. Films will be published and promoted on websites: startups.pl, lookr.tv and democamp.org.

Questions? Suggestions? Mail to info@lookr.tv or let us know if you need any help.

There’s only three days left to Democamp. We prepared some organizational information which may be useful:

Tickets for L line are two times more expensive (4 PLN, 7,20 PLN and 11,60 PLN).

• Entrance:

Entrance to Democamp on Saturday and Sunday will be opposite the West Railway Station (Dworzec Zachodni), Głogowska 14. Remember that we meet at Pavilion 11.

Near the Poznan International Fair, where Democamp will take place, there is a car park for registered participants. Entrance from Sniadeckich Street.

• KickStarter Party

KickStarter Party will be held on Friday (May, 22nd). We’ll meet at 20:00 at the main point of the Old Market, next to the Town Hall, and then we’ll together choose place for our bonding event All participants are welcome!

Detailed information about Saturday’s afterparty will appear soon.

We also prepared a short list of interesting places in Poznan. We think they’re really worth seeing.

As we promised in one of the previous posts we have just qualified teams that will present their projects during Start-Up Competition (DAY TWO).

• erasmuse.pl
• mob.pl
• iprezenty.pl
• filmaster.com
• naspolke.pl
• mololo.pl
• listonic.pl
• marro.ws
• mypolitiq.eu
• poznajpasazera.pl
• gieldagwiazd.pl
• liga-kibicow.pl
• crazymenu.com
• wrapme.pl

Congratulations!!! We will be sending detailed information about competition to qualified teams very soon.

You applied and are NOT listed? 

Your project is also wonderful and worth showing! You can still show it  during DAY ONE (unconference sessions) or during the whole Democamp EAST/WEST at start-up exhibition space.

We offer SPECIAL 20% discount when using this link. Your exhibition space can be supported with multimedia stuff, rollups, whatever you need to make impact on more than 300 participants.

Do you remember that according to the Democamp’s schedule, DAY ONE will be mostly covered by unconference/discussion sessions?

Considering that we are going to follow original barcamp rules, participants – especially YOU! – are supposed to prepare short presentation / discussion outline. We count on you. 

To help you with choosing the topic, some suggestions are being presented below:

• Promotion in internet (viral, word-of-mouth, guerilla marketing, advertising in social networks)
• SEO, SEM
• Web development technologies (back-end, front-end frameworks, IDEs)
• Project Management methodologies for web-based projects (Agile, SCRUM)
• Digital Media and Content Distribution (business models, technologies)
• Mobile Web (multimedia content distribution, geolocation, social networks over mobile)
• Blogging, micro-blogging, life-streaming (also in corporate context)
• Augmented Reality, 3-D in the Internet
• Venture Investment in Internet-startups
• Cloud Computing and scalability for demanding projects (AWS, schema-less storage engines)
• Semantic Web and knowledge management (microformats)
• Non-profit initiatives and social non-commerce projects

Let us know if you need any help.

This is just a quick note that you have less than 24 hours if you want to apply for presentation slot in front of Democamp Jury.

We are closing applications tomorrow at 13:00 (12:00 GMT) so hurry up and use the web form located at democamp2009.eventbrite.com. Remember to give us as much details about your project, team as possible.

We will announce qualified teams tomorrow at 20:00 (19:00 GMT). No more than 15 projects will be allowed to give a presentation speech in the competition. The good news is that every team can arrange their exhibition space that will be located in the very centre of networking area!

In next notes we’d like to introduce great companies that decided to support Democamp East/West.

BMP AG

BMP AG is one of the most recognizable Venture Capital on the Polish market. As a partner in the business it focuses mainly on helping the companies for a period of time, supporting them in building and expanding their business, implementing sound business processes and achieving an attractive valuation of the company. Czytaj dalej »

There’s less than a month left to Democamp. We’re very pleased that tickets are being sold like hotcakes so far.

In connection with great interest, we’ve prepared a list of hotels and hostels available during the Democamp East/West with all contact details. It may be very useful, especially for those who are planning to arrive from other cities or countries.

list of hotels and hostels

Hi! We feel duty of informing you that today is the last opportunity to get exhibition table (for start-ups, VCs, companies) with a 20% discount.

Check details

We receive many questions (at democamp@democamp.org) asking whether exhibition table is worth the money and whether it is obligatory for the start-up.

It is NOT obligatory but in our opinion exhibition-space is a must-have. Why? It’s your “address” during the whole exhibition day. Having your branded table it is much easier for other participants, VCs representatives, media to find you and speak with you. Last year we prepared more than 25 exhibition tables for start-ups.

That’s how it looked in Nov 2008:

Details about registration and discount