hy! Berlin

hy! is an event series in Berlin addressing all those who are enthusiastic about pioneering products and their designers. During hy!, emerging startups and established entrepreneurs come together to push the creative digitization of the European economy. Each event connects the global startup community by giving upcoming entrepreneurs the chance to present themselves to a large audience of interested innovators. Participants can network with well-known figures from politics, media, and the technology scene. Founded in 2012, the third event takes place June 2-4 2013. hy! is organized by the Berlin based entrepreneurs Hans Raffauf and Aydogan Ali Schosswald. In January 2013, publisher Axel Springer AG invested in the operating company hyvent GmbH.

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Interview with Julian from Locca!

What was it like for you after winning/participating in the hy! Startup Competition?

The moment when you are up on the stage waiting for the jury’s final decision and then suddenly can hear your own name – that was just overwhelming. Back in June we were already working on the Locca Trackers for almost 2 years. No doubt, this time was very challenging for our team. We invested a lot of our time and money. But eventually when standing there on the stage, and people like what you do, you realize that it was all worth it!

What did you do after? 

At that time we were not really prepared to get this massive feedback and news coverage – when pitching Locca, our website has just been online for about an hour or so. Within the first weeks we got several thousand emails and newsletter subscribers – it was amazing. You can imagine, we were pretty busy with talking to people and getting in touch with prospective clients and business partners.

After this first „shock“ was over, we really started to push things forward. We set ourselves a new deadline for the product launch and gave the go-ahead to our software developers and engineers. Quickly after we held the first prototypes in our hands. Again, an incredible feeling, when the product that you envisioned, is not just a computer rendering anymore but an actual thing that you can touch.

What’s the current status on your ventures? What’s working? What’s challenging? 

Things are going very fast right now. We’ve got a new website and webshop, which are almost ready to go online. Our software developers and designers are working like crazy on finishing the smartphone- and web applications. Creating a sound and working concept for the software is tough, since there are so many use cases for our product. The real-life testing phase is therefore a very important stage for us. But we have good news: so far everything looks good and we expect to ship the first LoccaMinis before Christmas!

We are also busy with getting enough funds to finance our first batch of LoccaMinis. For a startup that is launching its first product, this first production is of course a challenge because you can not fall back on your cash flow. During the last weeks, we have been working on a crowdfunding campaign, which is now live on indiegogo.com!

Goals for the future?

Everything is now focused on the product launch of the LoccaMini. Our goal is a successful launch, not only in our core markets Germany, Austria and Switzerland but also in all other european countries. Our second product, the LoccaPhone, still needs some time for developing, but we are pretty confident that it will be ready by the beginning of next year. The next step is then to offer our service overseas.

What advice would you give other startups when growing their team/product from the early stage you were in at the time of the competition?

You definitely need a long breath for such ventures. At the time of hy! we have been working on the product for about 2 years already and then suddenly it took of. So always be prepared for things to change very quickly.

Anything else you want to share?

The hy! Berlin was a big turning point for Locca. It gave as a big boost for the whole development process of the business. And now we are just within a stone’s throw of selling the first products! Thanks guys for supporting us in making the Locca claim become true: „stop searching – start living“.

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It's MAKER WEEKEND #4 at BETAHAUS!

While working on the 4th edition of MAKER WEEKEND we realised that we finally have our personal goal defined! WE WANT TO introduce people to the latest design, DIY and tech inventions and empower cross disciplinary implementation of this knowledge.

Here we go: MAKER WEEKEND #4! That’s right—MAKER WEEKENDS were such an inspiration that we’re back for more from the 10th to 11th of August. From now on, rather than a slow trickle of DIY workshops over the weeks, we will have an almighty explosion of them over an entire weekend!

We’ve gathered over twenty top industry professionals, tech wizards and betahaus creatives to put together what we reckon is a pretty impressive line-up of DIY, hands-on workshops. We’ve got old favourites and new adventures, in workshops covering anything from a couple of hours to the majority of both days; from SWIRLY SOAP to FILM MAKING, PATTERN CUTTING to 3D PRINTING, there truly is something for everyone.

Don’t forget, right in the middle of our non-stop schedule there will be our ever-popular EXPERIMENTATION PARTY, where you can have a beer, check out some awesome projects and even work on your own ones in a relaxed and creative atmosphere.

Get creative, have fun, and pick up some awesome new skills along the way!

Check out the entire line-up.

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Get hy! in Berlin!

Go on a Photo Mission with hy! and EyeEm!

Together with EyeEm, the beautiful mobile photography app, we’re sending you on a photo mission for the chance to win a ticket to hy! Berlin and have your photo published in Die Welt on June 1st.

Your Mission

Get creative, visualize the hy! letters and upload your photo to EyeEm with the tag: hyberlin. We’ve also spread hy! stickers all around Berlin (hint: Rosenthaler Platz & Betahaus) so if you find one, capture it! 

Things to use: spaghetti, office supplies, sand, flowers, body parts we don’t mid what you use or how you do it!

Prizes

The most creative shot receives two tickets for hy!'s live show at Radialsystem in Berlin on June 2nd

The best photo will be published in Die Welt on June 1st

Photo Installation: A selection of the best photos will be displayed at both Photo Hack Day and at hy! Berlin.

So, what are you waiting for? Give it a show and let the photographic genius in you shine! 

Good luck :)

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TICKETS AVAILABLE!

We're glad to finally announce that tickets for hy! Berlin June 2013 are now officially available!

On June 2nd, join hy! and our friends for another incredible show around innovative products and their creators at Radialsystem. Again, we'll be gathering the global players of the technology and media industries with guests like Jawed Karim (co-founder Youtube), Charles Adler (co-founder Kickstarter) and Mathias Döpfner (CEO Axel Springer.

You can get the specially discounted Early Bird tickets here. These last until April 30 so don't wait too long!

Applications for hy!'s Startup Competition can be submitted here. Applications close on May 12. Last time we had over €200,000 worth in prizes and an all-inclusive trip to Silicon Valley.

You can watch some of the best 4-minute pitches from the last hy! competition in January here.

Feel free to email us at [email protected] with any questions or concerns!

See you all on June 2nd,

hy! Team

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hy! we're back.

After an incredible two days of hy! in January we took a short break, organized a Silicon Valley tour, reassembled our team and now we're back for the next one!

First we did as we promised and took our Startup Competition winners to Silicon Valley! Our winners included, Ridha Azaiz, who impressed the judges with his spectacular, jumping, solar-panel cleaning robot, Uldis Leiters with his beautiful infographic software Infogr.am and finally, Simon Höher with Knowable – the Github for real-life projects (who unfortunately, couldn’t make it to SF).

We ventured over to San Francisco, where we stayed at The Embassy Network a beautiful, community house and enjoyed a week of inspiring talks with inspiring people.

We got around to 500 Startups, Mozilla, LinkedIn, Zendesk, Runway, Eventbrite, Stanford, Quora, Google and did plenty of touristy things (like Alcatraz, hiking & sailing) in between.

Now we’ve returned to the (temporarily) sunny Berlin and we’re back to fuelling our Club Mate addiction in preparation for the third edition of hy!

As you can tell by our epic post-it planning wall (our ideas are too big for A4) we are making it even bigger and better this time around and have expanded our team.

Let's introduce the new faces at hy! with Richard. He is our brilliant Event Experience Designer and inventor of terrible yet hilarious puns. Together with Anna, our new Executive Assistant, these guys are our lovely office Swedes. 

We've also welcomed Sophie, the only real Berliner amongst us (and subsequently the coolest person on our team) to join us as an intern.

To run June's Startup Competition, we flew in Vi, who'll bring some of her startup expertise from San Francisco where she worked at 500 Startups and Startup Grind.

Finally, we asked previous hy! MC and formerly the founder of The Kernel, Milo Yiannopoulos, to join us as Editorial Director. He will help us shape the programme of content for June and this picture describes him best:

And of course our three main men Aydo, Hans and Rupert are still working incredibly hard to bring you another edition of hy! Berlin.   

So. We've grown as a team, we're armed with plenty of Club Mate, post-its and insane amounts of hy! stickers to bring you an even more awesome edition of hy! Berlin on June 2-4.

Oh, and we just made tickets available. We recommend you get the limited edition 'Early Bird' tickets here.

See you all in June :)

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Announcing the hy! Startup Competition Panel!

The hy! crew loves Club Mate so much, our wallets are desperately hoping they'll start sponsoring us. This weekend, in particular, we consumed dozens of Berlin's unofficial alternative to coffee as we pored over hundreds of applications from over 30 countries. So many promising young ventures all hoping to gain a coveted spot in our finalist rounds at the hy! Startup Competition. So much Club Mate. Yet, no matter how much of the intensely carbonated beverage we imbibed, the hy! team managing the applications just couldn't pick 12 finalists out of so much talent. Luckily, we found a solution.

A new category we call 'Hardware' emerged out of applications promising new technological solutions well beyond what's out on the market now. Thanks to such innovative products emerging out of our applications we've invited 15 finalists into the rounds to face the 600+ crowd next Saturday alongside a panel who know a thing or two about what it means to be truly groundbreaking. 

                                             Peter Borchers, hub:raum                   Paul Singh, 500 Startups

                                                                                                                                 Milo Yiannopoulos, The Kernel 

The 150 investors, press, and thought leaders from the previous day's hy! event (which the founders who've made the finals will be joining in on) will also be attending the public competition on Saturday evening. A few of them will be making up the panels of each category. Sharing with the public their thoughts, laughter, outrage, and opinions, the panelists will make the tough decision of who will walk away with a prize package totaling over EUR 200.000. Without further ado, we'd like to introduce to you the official hy! Startup Competition Panel for category: Pitching.  

Paul Singh (top, right) is a self-proclaimed 'Master of the Hustle'. Paul is an entrepreneur and Partner at Venture Capital firm, 500 Startups. You can learn more about what's keeping Paul busy when he's not on the hy! panel by reading his widely-read blog here. 

Peter Borchers (top, left) is the head of Deutsche Telekom's global incubator, hub:raum, which has accelerated previous hy! companies after successfully winning the hy! Startup Competition. A consultant to both startups and global corporations, Peter has discovered helped to build, and grow companies such as wahwah.fm

Milo Yiannopoulos (bottom) is a British journalist and entrepreneur. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Kernel, an online magazine focusing on European start-up technology. 

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Where Are They Now?!

As one of the many awesome prizes Europe's most promising startups have in store upon winning the hy! Startup Competition, founders of the winning startups will travel to Silicon Valley for one week, where they will meet important investors and tech pioneers. To pay homage to past hy! Startup Competition winners, we sat down and asked some of them to tell us a bit about where they've come from since our first event in October. To learn more about what these fantastic founders are up to, check out our upcoming Startup Competition on January 19th where previous winners will take the stage and share where they're at. Rumor has it there is even a launch or two in store. A limited amount of Tickets are on sale now! Get 'em while they're hot! 

From left to right: Evgeni Kouris, Founder Toywheel, Jawed Karim, hy! Board Member and Co-founder YouTube, Nik Baron, hy! Startup Relations, Espen Systad, Founder Capsule.fm, Lasse Clausen, Founder FOUNDD, Brock LeMieux, hy! Community Manager.

What was it like for you after winning the hy! Startup Competition? 

Lasse: We were very happy and thankful that so many people supported us with their votes. 

Evgeni: The best time of my life and just overwhelming experience. Meeting so many great advisors, amazing startups and investors in the short time and seeing so much interest in the Toywheel vision just directly after the competition! Meeting Hans & Aydo and other hy! team members was a great inspiration for me. I love working with these guys and the way they approach things!

Espen: The exposure we got at hy! Berlin was a door opener. We noticed a spike in interest from investors, potential partners and the press. 

What did you do after winning? 

Lasse: I told the team and my family. 

Evgeni: Started hard work implementing the Toywheel vision and went on tour to Silicon Valley with the hy! team and other great startups like FOUNDD, Capsule.fm, and Eyeem. This was another great experience after hy! - pitching to Silicon Valley investors and seeing all amazing tech companies like Facebook, Dropbox and Google.

Espen: We went to our cheap drinking hole at Kötti - got drunk and found new friends. 

What's the current status on your ventures? What's working? What's challenging? 

Lasse: We're really surprised by how many downloads our app is getting, it's amazing. And that with a very basic 1.0, we're rushing to ship the next update.

Evgeni: As in every startup, building the best team for the Toywheel movement is the most challenging thing. We are working on the intersection of education, design and technology and we want all team members to have fun, but also to be eager enough to look "across the borders" and be geeky & visionary enough to revolutionize the education system. 

Espen: We are working on our prototype and our first round of funding. 

Did you already have a team in place before hy! and how has your team changed since the competition? 

Lasse: Since we were part of the launch competition for existing startups, we did have a team in place already.

Evgeni: We previously had a team working on a different idea before Toywheel came up. So, we discarded the other idea really quickly and started building the new company and team just 6 weeks before the competition! After winning the competition, it was clear that we needed to be fully focused on implementing the vision and building the product. So we brought Jana Baum into our core-team - a friend of mine I knew from SocialLab-Koeln.de and amazing person. She was one of the first team members of netmoms.de back in 2007 and responsible for the content & communication development of the platform. 

Espen: Capsule.fm had a very strong team before entering hy! Berlin. We are currently approached daily by people that want to join our team in the future. The hy! Berlin exposure has really helped us recruit the best. 

What advice would you give other startups when growing their team/product from the early stage you were in at the the time of the competition?

Lasse: Ship something fast and track how it's being used. Basic lean startup stuff but I'm surprised by how few people actually stick to it. Even when they read the book.

Evgeni: Two things I have learned in the last 2 months: big and distributed teams are the opposite of good for a fresh startup. Concentrate on the core, lean the processes and make, hack, fix as much as you can - talking and making presentations won't help after some point.

Espen: Listen to yourself. You know what to do. 

One of the prizes you won at hy! was a tour to Silicon Valley to meet with key people and get a feel for the industry. How was your experience? 

Lasse: It was awesome and super hectic. We stayed at a huge mansion in the middle of SF with tons of interesting people living there, who work at MIT and NASA among others. Then we spent 5 days driving around the whole valley, meeting companies at all stages. From Y Combinator graduates in a garage to Dropbox, Facebook and Google. Overall it was perfect to start building a network in the valley. You guys did set up a really nice agenda for us. 

Evgeni: It was like my biggest dream came true. As mentioned, besides meeting all these great startups, companies and investors - it was great living at the Embassy Network. Amazing mansion in the heart of San Francisco full of creative people, wild discussions and great entrepreneurs. We definitely need to expand this network to Europe, so contact me if you are interested to support the vision! Another great thing was meeting Axel Springer team in Palo Alto, just three houses away from the place where Steve Jobs lived. We were having couple of hours discussing how to build "the bridge" between Silicon Valley and Berlin with Kai Diekmann and Martin Sinner and other startups on tour. 

Espen: An excellent trip, meeting exceptional people and companies. The things I liked most were the conversations I had with the founders of the other hy! startups. We started building a startup family I know will be extremely valuable in the years ahead.

Anything else you want to share?

Lasse: I'm just waiting to have something major to launch so I can do HY Berlin again :)

Evgeni: Yes, actually three things. Firstly, check out my band timid tiger at timidtiger.com and secondly, spread out the world about hy! - the best platform for global startups "made with <3 in Berlin". Last, but not least: join our movement at toywheel.com and build the future of education with us! 

Espen: hy! Berlin is hyper lean. Love the people behind the organization, and the strong passion they have to help startups start up. I would also invite readers to sign up for a beta of Capsule.fm at http://signup.capsule.fm 

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hy! Geekettes

Written for submission to the Berlin Geekettes blog: 

hy! Berlin is back and better than ever! For the second time, the new event Berlin-based event series brings together the European startup community. Europe's most promising startups will be competing again for prizes even better than last year's. With a prize package worth over €200,000, finalists and winning startups can look forward to receiving an all-inclusive curated tour to the Valley, the opportunity to win €15,000 in cash, a service package worth $10,000, a PR package with a total value of €15,000, and many more great prizes - not to mention exposure to a highly relevant audience of early adopters, international investors and press. Applications are still open until January 11th, 2013. Prospective startups and already launched companies can submit their application via www.hyberlin.com/application. OnJanuary 18th, the finalists will also attend a private conference program with 150 invited leaders from around the world on all levels of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. 

Geekettes are in the House! 

In addition to the startup competition the audience can look forward to a package of entertainment, insights on trends and developments within the scene and a unique opportunity to network with accomplished entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and media. In the spirit of the Berlin Geekettes, we'd like to introduce two high-profile participants of the hy! event on the 18th who will take part in the public Startup Competition. Jude Widmann, recently writing for the Geekettes states "Hilary Clinton famously declared during the 2008 US Democratic Presidential primary that each vote for her nomination was a crack in the 'glass ceiling'. Tired and inaccurate, the glass ceiling is insufficient to describe new challenges women face in 2012, particularly in rapidly changing business sectors like technology." 

Perhaps a better way to describe the situation is to highlight two women, amongst numerous others, who are part of the upcoming hy! event. As the Huffington Post has it, Esther Dyson is an active angel investor in a variety of start-ups, for-profit and otherwise, around the world. She also operates as the Internet’s court jester, a person of no institutional importance who somehow manages to speak the truth and to be heard when and where it matters. She does business as EDventure, the reclaimed name of the company she owned for 20-odd years before selling it to CNET Networks in 2004. Her primary activity is investing in start-ups and guiding many of them as a board member. Her board seats include 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Boxbe, Voxiva, Eventful, Evernote, IBS Group (Russia, advisory board), Meetup, Midentity (UK), NewspaperDirect, Yandex (Russia) and WPP Group (not a start-up). Some of her other direct IT investments include Flickr and Del.icio.us(sold to Yahoo!)

Another International Geekette 

Named by Forbes as one of tech's most powerful disrupters in 2012, Megan Quinn is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers where she focuses on consumer Internet investments. She specializes in designing, building and scaling transformative consumer products and companies.Megan joined KPCB from Square, the company revolutionizing payments for buyers and sellers. As Square’s director of products she led strategy and development of the company’s products across merchant and consumer audiences.Prior to that, Megan spent seven years at Google where she held various leadership positions in communications, business development and product management. She oversaw the development and marketing of some of the company’s most successful products, including Google Maps. Her team’s work continues to serve as the foundation for Google’s location-based consumer and advertising products.

There are 35 free tickets on offer for Berlin Geekettes compliments of hy! to honor all the fabulous local women in the local tech scene. Otherwise, ticket sales for the Startup Competition can be found via the hy! Facebook page or by visiting the hy! Eventbrite page. Looking forward to seeing you there! 

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Let's get hy!

Colette Ballou, hy! participant and founder of Ballou PR, recently penned a widely-read editorial on the Berlin startup scene for Venture Village. Among the necessary drivers for a flourishing startup economy, she lists a critical mass of investors leading to more substantial and frequent exits, and creative energy coming out of teams from larger companies to create start-ups of their own. hy!, which will take place on 18th and 19th of January in Berlin, is hoping to capitalise on Berlin’s opportunities by bringing together investors, journalists, executives, thought leaders and other influential people from all corners of the global entrepreneurship ecosystem.  While some argue that the Berlin scene is overhyped, others claim that it works to the city’s advantage. “There has been a lot of hype. The young kid on the block needs to be loud, and Berlin has been very loud,” Berlin-based venture capitalist Ciaran O’Leary says. “But what’s happening is a self-fulfilling prophecy. All around the world, everybody says this is one of the best places in the world to build a company. And then that actually happens.” 

The truth is, Berlin is already the perfect city from which to build a global business, in part because startups based in this scruffy, comparatively small scene have no choice but to enter the global market from day one. Surrounded by Europe’s largest internet market, competing with a declining investment climate in the US, where obstructive immigration laws and rising competition from abroad are causing many angels to look to Europe, Berlin has a unique window of opportunity. 

hy! has and always will be a hybrid platform for technology startups going global, offering unique experiences, opportunities, and connections the local and international entrepreneurship ecosystem needs in order to evolve. hy! will have a public startup competition on January 19th at which Europe’s most promising startups vie for a prize package worth over €100,000.  We would modestly add one additional catalyst to Colette Ballou’s list of what it takes to foster a successful ecosystem: more events like hy!, which bring the right people to the table and most importantly put the founders breaking entrepreneurial ground front and center. Which is why (besides our invitation-only event on ), hy! has built Europe’s biggest startup competition to date. In the day and a half leading up to the public event, hy! is creating a more intimate and laid-back experience connecting 150 of the most high-profile local and international investors, press, and thought leaders to get an insider’s peek into the burgeoning Berlin startup scene.

The Competition

Applications close January 11th for the hy! startup competition. Startups are encouraged to apply for either of the two categories available to compete for a prize package worth more than €100,000. One category, the Alpha competition, is open for startups in the pre-seed/seed stage with a product (idea) and potentially a prototype. For startups ready to launch a product or new product feature and wishing to gain a great amount of press exposure, the launch competition is recommended.

Prizes on the docket include a prize package worth over €100,000, including €30,000 in cash, services including media support, tickets to the exclusive event on the 18th, our infamous Silicon Valley Tour, and much more.  Ready to get the international attention you deserve? Apply now. Know someone who is? Let them know and watch them first conquer Berlin, and then the world. Ticket sales for the Startup Competition are open now.

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And the winner is...

With 11 Startups in the race, thousands of votes, and one awesome trip to Silicon Valley up for grabs, the HY Berlin launch competition is officially over. All launching startups from our October event contented for the coveted spot on our tour. Drumroll, please! And the winner of the 2012 HY Berlin launch competition is... FOUNDD!

What is FOUNDD?

FOUNDD uses qualitative input from users and an algorithmic recommendation engine to personalize the entertainment world. While there is only movie recommendation at the moment, FOUNDD plans to extend the service to a wide range of entertainment including games, books, apps, TV shows, and clips. At HY Berlin, founder & CEO Lasse Clausen, announced the iPhone app that is launching soon.

As part of a fantastic prize package worth over 30,000€ awarded at our kick-off event, our three finalists were guaranteed a spot on what will be an epic adventure to the world's biggest startup hotspot. For the fourth spot on our tour we let you, the greater HY community decide which launching startup you wanted to see come over with us. It wasn't exactly a close call, as one particular startup really put their community to work. FOUNDD will join the HY Berlin winner, Toywheel, and the two other finalists Agorique and Capsule.fm the next month in Silicon Valley. Check out what the winner Toywheel as well as runners-up Agorique and Capsule.fm (which just scored over 1m€ in advertising at London's NOAH conference) have to say about their awesome products.

These four startups will hit the Valley in style meeting some of the city's best startups, companies, and investors on a whirlwind week-long tour. As part of the HY Berlin mission to make startups truly global we're taking the trek to give these startups the best access possible to the world's best entrepreneurship ecosystem and the investors that can scale and accelerate these ventures like none other. Places we're sure to hit include visits to the offices of Orrick and Axel Springer, amongst others. Of course, we won't put these guys up in just any old hotel. This is America, after all. We'll all be staying at the inaugural location of the distributed housing network dubbed the Embassy Network, San Francisco's newest addition to the city's innovation commune culture. The HY family won't just be hanging out all day in the 16 bedroom castle in the heart of the city founded by the same people behind the Valley's 'Rainbow Mansion', though. We'll also make a quick pit stop over to Stanford to catch StartX, their premier startup accelerator, meet up with Jawed Karim, co-founder of Youtube and HY Berlin board member.

Stay tuned on our blog to learn more about the faces behind the technology and don't miss our upcoming January event where we bring together yet another crowd of early adopters, international investors, and press. And next time? The prizes aimed to accelerate some of the world's most promising startups are only going to get better.

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Ready for take-off

On October 16th, HY Berlin kicked off with a blast at the unique Radialsystem in Berlin with over 300 startup fans, investors and members of the press present. Closing Axel Springer’s Media Entrepreneurs Day 2012, 25 companies took the stage to launch new products and pitch their ideas, trying to impress Europe’s tech community.

In the early-stage startup competition, 12 hand-selected teams competed for prizes worth more than 30.000€. Each team had 4 minutes in the spotlight to pitch to the jury and the audience. The jury brought back the 3 finalists Agorique, Capsule.fm & Toywheel for a Q&A finale, moderated by Milo Yiannopoulos, editor-in-chief of The Kernel.

Danielle Reid and Espen Systad from Capsule.fm spoke about their vision that the future of content consumption is audio and presented their futuristic app that got a lot of applause from the audience.

Toywheel’s founder Evgeni Kouris gave a very personal pitch on how he intends to change the world by changing education. He explained how Toywheel is going to help parents unleash their children’s creativity.

After an exciting finale, Toywheel took away the main prize of 10.000€ in cash from Deutsche Telekom’s incubator hub:raum, and all three finalists get to send their CEOs on a HY Berlin tour through Silicon Valley, meeting US investors and getting to know the entrepreneurial world overseas.