startup pirates @ porto 2011 - event report

2011 Event Report

Startup Pirates @ Porto

After a very intense week, Startup Pirates @ Porto is now over.

We tried to come up with a program with different activities, several

moments to share ideas and knowledge and some moments of pure

network. We are really proud of all the teams. They did an incredible job

and in the end they presented very solid and structure projects.

Now it’s time to look back and evaluate all the feedback that we had from

the participants, mentors, speakers and investors.

Let's look at the results...

Program

Workshops 8

Entrepreneur talks 3

Ask the Mentor 2

Team Building activities 3

Pitch oportunities 3

Meet-up 1

Working Sessions 19

Developing the inner leader 4

Attendance

Participants 30

Mentors 4

Speakers 14

Staff 5

19%

7%

5%

7%

7% 2%

44%

9%

57%

8%

26%

9%

Startup Pirates @ Porto Statistics

Sponsors

Global Sponsors 3

Local Gold Coin Sponsor 1

Local Silver Coin Sponsor 1

Local Bronze Coin Sponsor 2

Local Partners 9

19%

6%

6%

13%

56%

16 initial ideas pitched

10 ideas selected in the voting stage

7 ideas built a team and were developed during the week

Ideas and Teams

Startup Pirates @ Porto Statistics

Agenda

The Attendees We had an amazing group of Pirates. People from 5 different countries

(Portugal, Argentina, South Africa, Germany and UK) with different

backgrounds (eg: Pharmacy, Architecture, Psychology, History of Arts,

Design, IT or Civil Engineering) between 17 and 41 years old.

They did a wonderful job and the best three ideas were selected to be

pre-incubated at UPTEC, our local incubator.

Attendees Feedback… Program

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Score

1. Would you recommend Startup Pirates @ Porto to a friend? 4,9

Why?

“Great way to learn, interactive and not boring”

“Because it has every element you need to be a successful entrepreneur”

“For the interaction between people and knowledge shared between them all”

“Great opportunity to develop and acquire tools to become an entrepreneur. Great workshops. Great team spirit. Extremely useful”

“The workshops are very useful and at the same time we had a chance to work on our own idea. All in all I really liked the event!”

Attendees Feedback… Program

2. Global Comments/Testimonial

“Nicely done! I am very grateful to have an opportunity like this, to experience some of the best workshops I attended so far and to work on a business idea and present it to investors. Really great job. Keep up the good work. ”

“Thank you for a stimulating week - great to meet and work with people from diverse fields. Thanks also for creating an international event (and the possibility for English speakers to participate!).”

Attendees Feedback… Organization (1 - Less | 5 - More)

1. In relation to the organization Score

1.1 The quality of the provided documentation 4,4

1.2 The quality and adequacy of the facilities and the environmental conditions 4,5

1.3 The support 4,7

1.4 The duration of the session 4,6

1.5 The schedule 4,6

Average 4,6

Attendees Feedback… Organization

2. In what way you intend to use what you’ve learned?

“Start my own startup”

“To sky drive my new business”

“Use it in the product I am currently developing ”

“I don't intend to use what I've learned so far yet, but I'll be definitely an entrepreneur one day, and this week is making me realize I want to be that person sooner than I thought, because the ideas keep rising on and on in my head and I want to thank Startup Pirates for that.”

Attendees Feedback… Organization

3. Other comments or suggestions

“Do more startup pirates in Portugal. Include dinner :)” “Keep up the great work :)” “Better structuring of group discussions (required a bit more facilitation).

Opportunities to reflect on the process. No pictures and noise during the "developing the inner leader" sessions, please (some of the exercises imply great focus, concentration and vulnerability and outside distractions complicate this)

“the yoga was challenging, but maybe a bit too much so (e.g.not sufficient warm-up)! better facilitation of the mentor rounds (to make sure we get to talk with all of them!)”

“The conditions of the Yoga session weren't the best and it could have been a problem if more people wanted to participated. Congratulations for the work done.”

Attendees Feedback… Welcome Session

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Score

1. Global evaluation 1.1 It is useful to integrate the attendees 4,5

1.2 The objectives were explained 4,5

2. The team building activity 2.1 Was useful to meet the other attendees 4,7

2.2 The activities were adequate 4,7

3. Comments “Very nice get to know event” “Nicely done for a first day”

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Average 4,6

Attendees Feedback… Creativity - André Rabanea

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 4,9

1.2 The objectives were met? 4,7

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 4,7

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 4,6

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 4,6

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,7

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,9

3.3 Did he motivate you? 4,9

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 4,8

Average 4,8

Attendees Feedback… Trends - Diogo Teixeira

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 4,4

1.2 The objectives were met? 4,4

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 4,2

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 4,4

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 4,4

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,6

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,7

3.3 Did he motivate you? 4,1

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 4,5

Average 4,4

Attendees Feedback… Business Model - Catarina Maia

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 4,9

1.2 The objectives were met? 4,9

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 4,9

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 4,9

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 4,9

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,9

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,9

3.3 Did she motivate you? 4,3

3.4 Did she showed the practical application of the matter? 4,6

Average 4,8

Attendees Feedback… Product Development - João Martins

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 4,3

1.2 The objectives were met? 3,6

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 3,5

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 3,9

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 3,5

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 3,9

3.2 Dominated the subject? 3,9

3.3 Did he motivate you? 3,8

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 3,6

Average 3,8

Attendees Feedback… Marketing 2.0 - Daniel Caeiro

(1 - Less | 5 - More)

Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 4,3

1.2 The objectives were met? 4,2

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 4,1

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 4,4

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 4,2

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,3

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,7

3.3 Did he motivate you? 4,2

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 4,0

Average 4,3

Attendees Feedback… Human Resources - Isabel Paiva de Sousa

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 3,9

1.2 The objectives were met? 3,8

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 3,7

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 3,9

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 3,6

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,2

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,3

3.3 Did he motivate you? 3,7

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 3,9

Average 3,9

Attendees Feedback… Pitching - Fred Oliveira

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 4,9

1.2 The objectives were met? 4,9

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 4,9

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 5,0

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 4,7

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,9

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,9

3.3 Did he motivate you? 4,7

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 4,9

Average 4,9

Attendees Feedback… Ideas Protection and Patents - Joana Eugénio

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 3,4

1.2 The objectives were met? 4,1

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 3,4

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 3,9

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 4,1

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,3

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,9

3.3 Did he motivate you? 3,0

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 4,1

Average 3,9

Attendees Feedback… Developing the inner leader - Alessandra Dorante

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Score

1. Global evaluation

1.1 I liked the workshop 4,2

1.2 The objectives were met? 4,3

1.3 My expectations were fulfilled 4,0

2. The content of the workshop

2.1 The matter is usefull 4,0

2.2 I acquired new knowledge 4,2

3. The speaker

3.1 Exposed clearly? 4,4

3.2 Dominated the subject? 4,6

3.3 Did he motivate you? 4,0

3.4 Did he showed the practical application of the matter? 4,4

Average 4,2

Attendees Feedback… Entrepreneur talk - Ricardo Diniz

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Score

1. Global evaluation 1.1 This session was useful? 4,9

2. The speaker 2.1 Exposed clearly? 4,9

2.2 Did he motivate you? 4,9

Average 4,9

Attendees Feedback… Entrepreneur Talk - João de Sousa Aroso

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Score

1. Global evaluation 1.1 This session was useful? 4,4

2. The speaker 2.1 Exposed clearly? 4,3

2.2 Did he motivate you? 3,5

Average 4,1

Attendees Feedback… Entrepreneur Talk - Oupas! Design - Joana Croft and Cidália Abreu

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Score

1. Global evaluation 1.1 This session was useful? 3,8

2. The speaker 2.1 Exposed clearly? 4,3

2.2 Did he motivate you? 3,7

Average 3,9

Attendees Feedback… Meet-up - Pedro Castro Henriques

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Score

1. Global evaluation 1.1 This session was useful? 4,3

2. The speaker 2.1 Exposed clearly? 4,1

2.2 Did he motivate you? 4,0

Average 4,1

Attendees Feedback… Final Pitches (1 - Less | 5 - More)

Score

1. Final Pitches

1.1 The quality and adequation of the facilities and the environmental conditions

4,8

1.2 The support 4,7

1.3 The duration of the session 4,7

1.4 The schedule 4,7

Average 4,7

Speakers & Mentors João Martins

Isabel Paiva de Sousa

Joana Eugénio

Diogo Teixeira

André Rabanea

Fred Oliveira

Catarina Maia

Alessandra Dorante

Daniel Caeiro

Tiago Pedras

Felipe Ávila da Costa

Filipe Gonçalves

João de Sousa Aroso

Joana Croft

Cidália Abreu

Ricardo Diniz

Pedro Castro Henriques

Slides, Photos and Videos

In relation to the conference photos they are available on flickr.

The workshop slides are being released on slideshare.

The recorded videos during the event are still being produced. They will

be available on vimeo.

Media Coverage: English

How-to-Web.net - THE STARTUP PIRATES MOVEMENT IS ON [September 12th, 2011]

StartupReport.com - Startup Pirates one-week Startup School coming to Porto [August 3rd, 2011]

Media Coverage: Portuguese

Feed the Reader > Startup Pirates – Futuro [September, 2011]

Feed the Reader > StartUp Pirates @ Porto - Oradores [September , 2011]

Feed the Reader > StartUp Pirates @ Porto – Os Participantes [September, 2011]

Feed the Reader > StartUp Pirates @ Porto – As ideias [September, 2011]

Feed the Reader > StartUp Pirates – O Conceito [September, 2011]

Correio do Minho > Empreendedorismo [August, 2011]

Portal do Cidadão de Gaia > Empreendedorismo Jovem [August, 2011]

Portal Artigos > Escola de Empreendedorismo criada em Portugal [August, 2011]

Porto24 > Aprender a criar uma empresa de sucesso [August, 2011]

Sol > 30 jovens aprendem como criar uma empresa e ter êxito [August , 2011]

Sapo.pt > Empreendedorismo [August, 2011]

Beta-i > STARTUP PIRATES @ PORTO [August, 2011]

Cidade das Profissões > Startup Pirates @ Porto [August, 2011]

UPTEC > UPTEC apoia Startup Pirates @ Porto [August, 2011]

UPIN > Inscrições Abertas para o Startup Pirates @ Porto [August, 2011]

Fundação da Juventude > Startup Pirates @ Porto [August, 2011]

Destak > Aprenda a criar o seu negócio [August, 2011]

Feed the Reader > Startup Pirates – Lançamento [July, 2011]

Local Sponsors

Partners

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Global Sponsors

Global Sponsors

Thank you all!

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