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OpenReaktor #13 with Startup Kids this Wednesday!

OpenReaktor #13 will take place on November 21th in Reaktor. We're starting at 19:00 this time as we recommend you all see the only screening of "Startup Kids" in Muranów before the event!

AGENDA We want the subject of this OpenReaktor to be WHY BEST POLISH IT STUDENTS DON'T DO STARTUPS. We have already confirmed these amazing guests:

Vala Halldorsdottir and Sesselja Vilhjalmsdottir from Iceland.

 They are the directors of "Startup Kids" and the co-founders of Kinwins.com

Michał Olszewski - vice-president of Warsaw and founder of Smolna Enterpreneurship Centre

Agnieszka Skala - lecturer at SPIN Szkoła Przedsiębiorczości Innovation Nest, SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Startup Weekend NEXT

SPONSORS

Our amazing sponsors paying for the beer & pizza & streaming are this time:

PLATINUM

Idea Bank - the bank for entrepreneurs!

GOLD

TouK -  openly bespoke software

BRONZE

Fakturownia by Radgost - intuitive invoicing webapp for small companies

Domino's Pizza - best pizza in town!

GammaRebels - best accellerator in town

Want to sponsor OpenReaktor? Please email [email protected] or call [phone] for details!

SIGN UP FOR THE EVENT!

Sign up on Facebook to attent the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/418435184872859/

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Investors Reverse Pitching at OpenReaktor#12

At OpenReaktor#12 we ran an experiment known from conferences like "Capital on Stage". We invited 4 investors to "pitch" their VC and angel funds to startups. Watch how it turned out!

Jacek Błoński of Lewiatan Business Angels talks about angel investing and his new VC fund at #OpenReaktor

Luigi Amati of META Group speaks about his fund.

Chris Kowalczyk, the founder of GammaRebels accellerator and HardGamma Ventures VC firm reverse pitches his investment funds at #OpenReaktor.

Johan Gorecki talks about Globe Forum and unconventional ways of helping startups by analyzing what's missing in the processes of huge corpos and matching them with small companies.

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"The Next Big Thing" as seen by John Biggs -- video from #OpenReaktor

John Biggs of TechCrunch fame invaded the famous Warsaw startup mansion Reaktor for the second time to give another kick-ass presentation on what he believes is "the next big thing".

Watch the video below and learn why:

gamification is dead, 

you should not build another social or subscription commerce startup,

you should stay away from cloning Groupon,

you should build wearable electronics and 3d printing startups that will make a difference!

Polish beer Ciechan rocks,

and more!

If you like the video, subscribe to our #OpenReaktor channel on Vimeo to see more!

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P&G CE Digital Innovation Day

Procter & Gamble loves startups and loves using startups' products. Startups like Box.net and others grew with P&G and that's why you guys should seriously consider partnering with them. One way of doing this is by coming to P&G CE Digital Innovation Day which takes place on December 10th in Warsaw, Poland.

These are a few business challenges P&G CE is seeking to tackle are:

Complexity management:  10 languages creates complexity in the processes of effective handling and translation  of any piece of marketing communication; in the area of digital it applies to  eContent (products information shared with eRetailers),  productive search optimization, any creative  materials that are being developed for brands’ campaigns; 

Brining eCommerce to new level of shopping experience:  - creating best in class eCommerce experience with eRetailers  in the domain of content creation to maximize shopping experience and conversion rate;  - Cost and time effective way of sharing and synchronizing digital assets with eRetailers; 

Mobile: New possibilities of connecting consumers to our products leveraging mobile wherever she wants to engage – in store, at home or on the way; 

Reaching out to new innovative ways of talking to consumers going beyond already commoditized areas – social, broad internet or mobiles.  

If your startup is located in Eastern Europe and you work on solving one of the above issues, you're a good candidate to become P&G's partner. 

Update! Startups can still apply till Nov 11th!

Startups can still apply to pitch your idea at the Innovation Day here: http://pgdigitalday.pl/. The application deadline has been moved to November 11th. If you're lucky, your startup can be selected for review in front of P&G management team. This means you will get the chance to engage the world's largest and innovative companies among your first clients! You can read more about this at https://pg.box.com/brief.

Procter & Gamble was a platinum sponsor of the most recent #OpenReaktor event.

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OpenReaktor #12 on Oct 17th with John Biggs and awesome investors!

Dear startupers!

#OpenReaktor takes place tomorrow, on October 17th. Plan this Wednesday evening at Bohomolca 15!

We're super-excited to announce that our first speaker will be JOHN BIGGS of TechCrunch. John spoke on OpenReaktor #1 in August 2011 and the reception was amazing even though he said Polish people can't do startups ;)

John Biggs at OpenReaktor #1 in July 2011

AGENDA:

19:30-20:10 John Biggs will talk about "the next big thing".

John is the East Coast Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here: http://twitter.com/johnbiggs and email him directly at [email protected]. 

20:15-21:00 Investors@OpenReaktor

This is a new idea inspired by Capital on Stage conference. We'll have 5 investors talk about their target startups. Each will have 2 minutes to introduce themselves followed by a Q&A with audience. The invited investors are:

 * Chris Kowalczyk of HardGamma Ventures & GammaRebels (http://twitter.com/kkowalcz)

 * Jacek Błoński of Lewiatan Business Angels (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jacek-blonski/0/762/b63) 

 * Luigi Amati of Zernike Meta Ventures (http://www.meta-group.com/news/Pagine/Interview-with-Luigi-Amati.aspx)

 * Johan Gorecki of Globe Forum, previously Skype (http://johangorecki.com/)

 * Bartek Gola of SpeedUp Group (https://twitter.com/GolaBartek)

Please do your research if you would like to approach one of these investors. They are very busy so have your high level pitch ready to make them excited. 

SPONSORS:

Our great sponsors for OpenReaktor#12 are:

PLATINUM:

* IDEA BANK (http://ideabank.pl)

* PROCTER & GAMBLE (organizer of PG Digital Innovation Day: https://pg.box.com/brief)

SILVER:

* HARDGAMMA VENTURES & GAMMAREBELS (http://gammarebels.com)

* NETGURU (http://netguru.pl)

We've closed our list of sponsors for OpenReaktor#12 but if you are looking to sponsor OpenReaktor#13, email Borys at [email protected]!

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How Facebook Builds Facebook [video]

SIMON CROSS heads up Facebook’s developer advocacy team in Europe. He talks geek to geeks about day-to-day software development at Facebook, revealing some fascinating information about how Facebook builds Facebook (the website and the platform).

Did you know it takes max 9 days for ANY feature to go live after the code was comitted to the Facebook repo? Did you realize that there is only ONE Facebook repo and that you can basically git clone Facebook in a minute?

Watch the video to learn many more such revelations revealed in this energetic, frank and passionate talk!

The talk was recorded at #OpenReaktor, a monthly tech meetup taking place in ReaktorWarsaw.com, the coolest startup mansion this side of Atlantic.

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OpenReaktor #11 on Wednesday, Sept 26th

Dear Warsaw startupers, investors, geeks and cool girls who are always a scarce resource!

OpenReaktor #11 will take place on Wednesday, Sept 26th, traditionally in ReaktorWarsaw.com.

We'll have pizza & beer and amazing guests, including two speakers from FACEBOOK (yes, this Facebook):

BRENDEN ARAKAKI is a copyrighter at Filmaster.TV. Brenden will speak about the mistakes Polish startups make when using English on their websites, decks, pitches and general communication

SIMON CROSS heads up Facebook's developer advocacy team in Europe. He will talk geek to geeks about new possibilities for developers to leverage OpenGraph to get better traction and more social buzz.

SŁAWEK BIEL will be there for a Q&A session about how it feels to work as a developer for Facebook first in Silicon Valley and then in the UK. Update! SŁAWEK BIEL unfortunately won't be able to arrive, so the Q&A with him is obviously cancelled. Sorry!

Simon Cross (Facebook UK)

Live streaming

The event will be live-streamed. Check the streaming details at http://reaktorwarsaw.com/live/

Our Sponsors

Our great sponsors of OpenReaktor #11 are:

# PLATINUM SPONSOR: Idea Bank (http://ideabank.pl/)

# GOLD SPONSOR: Positionly (http://positionly.com/)

# SILVER SPONSOR: El Passion (http://elpassion.pl/)

Our long-time partners are:

# ATMAN

# CISCO

# FRONT-TRENDS

Please contact Borys at [email protected] to discuss sponsorship!

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Watch OpenReaktor#10 live!

Yep, OpenReaktor#10 will be streamed live! Check out this link: http://new.livestream.com/filmpointpl/openreaktor around 7:15pm TODAY to watch our amazing speakers from Mozilla.

As usual, we'd like to thank our sponsors to make this possible. Some cool logos below :)

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OpenReaktor #10 with Mozilla this Thursday!

We'd like to remind you that the 10th OpenReaktor will be held on September 6th (it's this Thursday) in close cooperation with Mozilla!  We have two AMAZING SPEAKERS:

Brian KING (http://briks.si/) will share his experiences as an entrepreneur that has built a business around an open source project (in his case, Mozilla). 

Brian King has been involved in the Mozilla community since 1999. In that time, he has worked building software on top of the Mozilla Application Platform. He is one of the Board of Directors of the Mozdev Community Organization, aka mozdev.org, a community site for hosting Mozilla-based projects and for promoting Mozilla technologies. Brian is a software consultant and head of Briks Software

Christian HEILMANN (http://christianheilmann.com/) will have a session on The Open Web on Phones - HTML5 and Firefox OS . "The Web is the platform" is a motto that Mozilla has subscribed to historically and it is driving it much further these days. Chris Heilmann will show new technologies and opportunities, the insides of Firefox OS and shows how you can help us keep free and open technologies and products the ones that define the web of the future. You will learn how to play with Firefox OS and get insight into where we are going with it. Web Christian has been a developer for almost 10 years, experienced in agency and ecommerce environments. Former Head of Web Development at Agilisys and developer for etoys, popnet and babycentre.com. Former Yahoo, now at Mozilla to make the web better.

The event and the presentations start at 7:00 pm so please be on time!

Please sign up on Facebook event in order to confirm your participation: https://www.facebook.com/events/355655877847247/?ref=ts

Of course as usually we'll have pizza and beer provided by our great sponsors who are this time Mozilla and Idea Bank. 

Thanks!

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Reaktor Birthday Party & two upcoming OpenReaktor events

Reaktor Warsaw has just turned one year, so we thought it is a great time to do a small recap of what we managed to achieve during this year and make some new amazing plans for the future.

We'd like to invite you all to celebrate our first birthday together on

Friday, August, 24th at 19:00

in

Reaktor Warsaw ul. Bohomolca 15,  Warszawa, Poland 

Map here: http://bit.ly/KCVTCM

Sign up here: https://www.facebook.com/events/464920310198367/ Don't expect speakers and lectures at the party. It's a paaarty after all! Still, Borys might want to say a few things about future plans for Reaktor, but that should be short and unboring.

But we've already planned two exciting event for September so if you missed the regular OpenReaktors, here we go!

Here are our upcoming events in Reaktor:

OpenReaktor #10 will take place on September 6th with cooperation with Mozilla, so expect amazing speakers! Sign up for OpenReaktor #10 here.

OpenReaktor #11 is planned for September 26th and we already have one great speaker from the United Kingdom confirmed but we'll be posting more details about it after #10. Still, you can already sign up for OpenReaktor #11 here.

We're still looking for sponsors for OpenReaktor events (money needed for food, video streaming, etc). Gold sponsorship is 1000 PLN, Silver is 500. Please contact us at [email protected] if you are interested. See you all in Reaktor on Friday and then two times in September!!!

Want to be always up to date with our ventures? Check out our Twitter often!

REAKTOR BIRTHDAY PARTY MAIN PARTNERS:

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS:

MEDIA PATRONS:

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Gametrade and Radgost teams join Reaktor!

We're totally happy to announce two new startups joined Reaktor: Gametrade and Radgost.

Gametrade.pl is a e-commerce platform for gamers and small indie shops, where they can buy, sell or swap computer/console games with each other. Currently Gametrade.pl is used by more then 140 000 gamers form Poland, mainly PS3/Xbox360 owners.

Gametrade.pl team  (Marek Lipka and Damian Legawiec) seems pretty happy to be in Reaktor's open space :)

Radgost is a company which provides a set of tools called Firmlet, which help companies work more efficiently. One of these tools is HelpOcean - an online bug reporting widget you can place on your website (think: GetSatisfaction or SnapEngage).

Radgost guys (Marcin Stefaniak, Michał Stefaniak and Paweł Deryło) posing in their room in Reaktor.

We wish both teams great successes and we encourage all startups to use Radgost products. Filmaster and Pobli, other Reaktor startups, already do it and they are very happy with the results.

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Live-streaming of #OpenReaktor 9!

Today's #OpenReaktor will be (for the first time) live-streamed at:

http://new.livestream.com/filmpointpl/openreaktor

- save this URL!

You can read all about our two amazing speakers and the event in general at http://reaktorwarsaw.com/post/23238919226/openreaktor-9-on-thursday-may-24th-with-jerry-colonna

The transmission starts about 17:30 Polish time (16:30 GMT) and is brought to you by Film Point.

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OpenReaktor #9 with Jerry Colonna and Markus Lampinen

We'd like to invite you all to OpenReaktor #9 which takes place on: Thursday, May 24th at 17:30 

in

Reaktor Warsaw ul. Bohomolca 15,  Warszawa, Poland 

Map here: http://bit.ly/KCVTCM Yes, it's 17:30 and be on time as Jerry has to leave early! Here are our amazing speakers:

Jerry Colonna is a venture capitalist in New York City who played a prominent part in the early development of Silicon Alley. He is currently a life and business coach. With his partner, Fred Wilson, Jerry launched Flatiron Partners in August 1996. Flatiron became one of the most successful, early stage investment programs in the New York City area, with investments in notable successes and failures such as comScore Networks, Geocities, New York Times Digital, PlanetOut, Return Path, Standard Media International, and Starmedia. Read more about Jerry.

Markus Lampinen - COO at Grow VC, the first global, transparent, community-based platform dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors. Grow VC enables great ideas and great teams to get visibility with the right investing audience, funding and support earlier. Grow VC is more than crowd funding, it’s a nurturing ecosystem where entrepreneurs can connect with experts, funders, team members, new customers and partners to realize their ideas. Grow VC can help startups companies secure initial funding of up to 1M USD. Read more about Grow VC.

We're also looking for sponsors of beer and pizza. Gold sponsorship is 1000 PLN, Silver is 500. Please contact us at [email protected] if you want to give us money! See you all in Reaktor on Thursday!!!

We'll be announcing more info soon so stay tuned and check out our Twitter often!

OPENREAKTOR SPONSORS:

  TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS:

MEDIA PATRONS:

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World Radio Day in Warsaw @ OpenReaktor #8

Second OpenReaktor in 2012 will be a special one! It's being organized together Sourcefabric and will be part of the celebrations of World Radio Day in Warsaw, with guest speakers from two radio stations, Creative Commons Poland and Soundcloud.com(!).

The presentations will be followed by beer & pizza and then a party with only Creative Commons music. With a DJ and stuff :)

Come to Reaktor.net on Monday, February 13th at 6pm.

Here's the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/173832619392495/ 

Info in Polish follows

Mamy ogromną przyjemność ogłosić już ósmy, nietypowy, OpenReaktor. Tą edycję OpenReaktora organizujemy razem z Sourcefabric, która w Światowy Dzień Radia (13 lutego) stworzyła cykl eventów na całym świecie poświęconym open source'owym radiom.  Sourcefabric to organizacja non-profit, która stworzyła darmowe i otwarte oprogramowanie, które pomaga niezależnym stacjom radiowym na całym świecie. 

PRELEGENCI:

Prelegentami na tym nietypowym spotkaniu będą: * Kamil Sobolak - Bieszczady.FM * Piotr Radio - RadioAktywne.pl * Dominik Traskowski  * Soundcloud.com Radio Aktywne jest oficjalną rozgłośnią Politechniki Warszawskiej i jednocześnie najstarszą akademicką stacją w Warszawie. Zrzeszając studentów niemalże wszystkich stołecznych uczelni oraz pasjonatów mowy mikrofonowej, ma do zaoferowania ponad 20 audycji autorskich, z muzyką której nie da się uświadczyć w komercyjnych stacjach. SPONSORZY: Po części oficjalnej, Sourcefabric tradycyjnie postawi pizzę :) Nadal szukamy sponsorów piwa i grzanego wina. Chcesz zasponsorować? Pisz na [email protected]! :) Partnerami technologicznymi Reaktora są Cisco oraz FrontTrends.

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First OpenReaktor in 2012!

We are very happy to announce that the first OpenReaktor in 2012 will take place on Wednesday January 25th, as usually, in Reaktor.net - the best startup mansion in Warsaw. It's the first OpenReaktor this year, so we want to thank you for all your support and great spirit in 2011! Hope 2012 will be even more awesome for all our community. :) 

Get your ticket: http://openreaktor7.eventbrite.com/ Our speakers are: 

Tomasz Kolinko - founder of Motivapps, iOS developer. Tomek will tell you about postmortems of mobile apps. A couple of success and failure stories of iPhone apps. What works, what doesn't.

Katarzyna Kwiecień - community manager of Tupalo Warszawa. Kasia describe how from a local startup, Tupalo has become a global one. What kind of difficulties they've encountered, how they overcame them and what they have gained.

Our sponsors: There is still cold in Warsaw and mulled wine at last Xmas OpenReaktor was truly delicious, so we want to do it again! Tupalo.com will warm you with mulled wine :) We still have two spots avaiaible for sponsor, so drop us a line: [email protected] 

See you in Reaktor!

OPENREAKTOR SPONSORS:

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS:

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OpenReaktor #6 Xmax Edition on December 19th

We are very happy to announce that the next OpenReaktor will take place on Monday December 19th, as usually, in Reaktor.net - the best coworking center for startups in Warsaw. At the special Xmas edition we will want to inspire you during that amazing, Christmas time :) It’ll be also our first event in English. Our speakers are: 

Zbigniew Braniecki - sociologist, developer, member of the Mozilla project, working in the social media market since 2000. Zbyszek will tell you how to kill a promising startup - a few lessons from the story of Flock.

Barbara Nowacka - co-founder of Yoomoot - the only site in the world which makes long discussions organised. Her experience ranges from product management, user experience design, SEO, social media marketing to business strategies. Basia will speak what you should do before you start your startup :) 

Teemu Arina - CEO of Meetin.gs - a cloud-based service for organizing online and face-to-face meetings between organizations. Teemu is a social media wrangler, technology entrepreneur, keynote speaker and founder of www.meetin.gs and Dicole, author of Cloud Company and Megasignals. We’ll learn the story of Meetin.gs during a live video interview held by Lukasz Jablonski, 1410ventures.

It’s Xmas Edition, so this time we’re looking for mulled wine or beer sponsors :) Want to make Christmas even warmer for entrepreneurs? Send an e-mail to [email protected] and became the Startup Claus! :) 

Brama Innovation Camp will celebrate Christmas together with Reaktor.net. All friends of Brama are welcome!

See you in Reaktor! Don't forget to let us know you're coming!

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Great news from a Reaktor.net startup, myguidie:

Hi guys! We have a really great news to announce. Please, better take a sit… On Saturday we won the second edition of Pitch in Berlin, a contest for the most promising European start-up, organized by HackFwd, one of the best pre-seed funds in Europe! How? Making a great presentation...