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MISSION 03 starts accepting applications on February 1

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Lean Startup 101 with Phil Morle of Pollenizer

Phil Morle returns to conduct the first Launchgarage workshop for the next batch of garageheads with Lean Startup 101.

The exclusive 2-day workshop to be held on July 22 & 23, 2013 kicks off MISSION 02 activities and will introduce garageheads to the essential methodologies to run lean during the course of the 5-month program. The Lean Canvas and the Lean Dashboard will be introduced as essential tools that will help guide the founders and measure the progress of their respective startups.

Other founders from Kickstart will also attend the workshop.

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MISSION 01 Profiles: Apptivate

Apptivate allows you to purchase iOS apps from the appstore without a credit card! 

contact: [email protected]

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MISSION 01 Profiles: Workinspire

WorkInspire is an email-driven collaboration solution designed for full project cycle support, thereby increasing productivity in your workplace. 

How it works: 

Organizes your emails - - swiftly organizes your emails to tasks and prints them out as a timesheet. 

Task collaboration  - - share your tasks with anyone in the world, they don't need to be a member of your team. 

Timesheets and invoices  - - tracks team hours accurately that can be generated into an invoice in no time.

contact: [email protected]

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MISSION 01 Profiles: Tripsiders

FIND TRIPS 

Discover new places, local food, hidden shops and immerse like a local as you explore itineraries, travel tips, and reviews from fellow travelers. Save ideas for future trips and make it your own to share. 

SHARE TRIPS 

Interact with the community of wanderers by sharing travel highlights, do’s and don’ts, insider information, and getting there the quickest, most comfortable, and cheapest way possible.

contact: [email protected]

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MISSION 01 Profiles: MyLegalWhiz

MyLegalWhiz (MLW) is an innovation in mobile research and technology. It provides a dynamic and professionally curated legal research database that is accessible not only on personal computers but also for smartphone and tablet users. 

MLW organizes topics in real-time and allows you to recommend new legal principles and terms to be included in your mobile updates!

contact: [email protected]

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Mentor Network: Nam Le

Co-founder and CTO at 70Street

UX expert, coder, and startup veteran Nam Le has joined the network of Launchgarage mentors. Garageheads will surely benefit from his experience and advice as he lends UX best practices to the teams.

With over 15 years in e-commerce, enterprise, and UX development for startups, Nam is a driving force in agile development. He has worked as a Senior Developer for Sapient, Washington Mutual, and has worked as Director of UX and Widget Development for Rearden Commerce.

He was also the first and only developer of Shoedazzle.com pre-capital, and has worked with a number of startups in early stages ever since. His various experiences in startup to enterprise technology stacks gives him a unique understanding of both architecture and the user experience.

Nam is currently co-founder and CTO of 70street.

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Launchgarage Mission 01 starts today with 4 rocking startup teams

The pioneer batch of the Launchgarage kicks off today at Proudcloud HQ with 4 startup teams ready to rock the place.

Each Mission 01 team will take advantage of US$30,000 seed money, the network of rockstar mentors, and various product values worth almost US$90,000 from the likes of Amazon AWS, Zendesk, and over 180 deals from F6S.com.

Workinspire

Work Inspire is a cloud based project management tool that helps managers and team members save time on scheduling, task and time tracking by working with your emails instead of adding on to the spam, proven to save two to eight hours per day per team member.

SulitApps

A service for non-credit card holders that allows them to purchase Apps and Digital Goods from the popular marketplaces even without a credit card.

Tripsiders

Tripsiders is an online booking service for tours and activities nationwide that focuses on service providers' reliability and trust. It provides a full e-commerce booking website for desktop and mobile, a review and rating platform, a directory of verified service providers and polite and helpful 24/7 customer service.

MyLegalWhiz

MyLegalWhiz provides an online venue for legal professionals to do research and case management work. It currently has a huge curated database cases and is already in use by some legal professionals.

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Pollenizer Lean Startup Workshop on October 18 & 19

To kick off the pioneer run of the Launchgarage program, Australian lean startup mavens Pollenizer will conduct a 2-day workshop for garageheads on October 18 and 19.

Pollenizer co-founder and CEO Phil Morle, together with south east asian general manager Issac Souweine, will fly in to give the Launchgarage teams valuable training and tools to help them effectively adopt lean methodologies in their respective ventures.

The workshop will also give garageheads the first opportunity to meet and interact with the kickstars, the startup teams that investment fund Kickstart Ventures has invested in.

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Mentor Network: Jojo Flores of Plug and Play Tech Center

Plug & Play Tech Center's co-founder and operations head Jojo Flores joins the network of mentors that will guide and support garageheads starting this October.

  Under his watch since it was founded, Plug and Play has built a community of 600+ tech startups, 200+ angel investors, 200+ VC investors, 100+ large tech corporations and service partners, 50+ domestic and international universities, and numerous experts in various technology fields. Since inception, Plug and Play startups have been able to raise in excess of $1 billion.

Additionally, Jojo serves as a Board Member in the Science and Technology Advisory Council to the Philippine government and leading universities, helping them bridge technology entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley.

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Mentor Network: Guyi Shen

Save22 founder and CEO Guyi Shen joins the Launchgarage Mentor Network to lend his valuable experience to this batch of Garageheads.

We'll be seeing Guyi, and other mentors as they visit Launchgarage's digs during this accelerator program.

Read the insider's story on Guyi's appearance on Angel's Gate.

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Zendesk supports Garageheads with 12-month Zendesk Plus+ worth US$3,540

Cloud based customer service software leader Zendesk has guaranteed their support for accepted Launchgarage teams by providing its premium service suite Zendesk Plus+ for 12-months.

Valued at US$3,540, Zendesk Plus+ provides Ticket Management, Reporting, Branding, Multi-channel support, and Integrations that levels up more than 20,000 organizations like Groupon, Airbnb, Pinterest, and Box.

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Mentor Network: Fabian Tilmant

Media, Entertainment, and Telecom innovation maven Fabian Tilmant flies in this October and joins the Launchgarage Mentor Network!

Garageheads will benefit from Fabian's vast experience and gain insight on how technology in the hands of today's generation of startup innovators will shape the industries of tomorrow.

Read more about Fabian's LEANOVATION methodology and follow him as @fabnet_be.

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$1,000 Amazon AWS Credits for Garageheads

AMAZON has provided $1,000 worth of AWS credits for EACH startup team accepted into the Launchgarage program which can be used for Amazon S3 and EC2 cloud services.

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. With data center locations in the U.S., Europe, Brazil, Singapore, and Japan, customers across all industries are taking advantage of pay-as-you-go pricing, agility and instant elasticity, platform flexibility, and robust security.

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Pioneer Batch: Call for Startups!

We're inviting all early stage startups to pitch for a slot in the inaugural batch of garageheads.

We're looking to fill 4 slots in the 6 month program which includes seed funding, work space, mentorship & advice, rockstar networking, exclusive lectures, and strategic partnerships with tech's leading players.

The program will commence this September and we've already heard pitches from 2 startup teams.

The pitching format will be 10 minutes for the main pitch and another 10 minutes of Q&A from the panel.

Learn more about the program details here and if you think you're up to it, apply now and we'll schedule you for a pitching session.