StartupCamp 2010 – The Recap
February 15, 2010
Alright, back from Basel we are! Saturday saw a great second StartupCamp Switzerland with almost 150 participants and great opportunities to exchange knowledge and network! I don’t even know where to start, so I’ll keep it short and give my impressions.
First of all I’d like to express my gratitude towards those who organized the event – even though one of them, Dania, usually sits right across from me. All of the organizational committee have done an outstanding job once again. This is a kind of Camp where nothing is missing: There was food, drink, Internet, and even heating!
As far as the conference itself is concerned, I was once more struck by the grand array of different subjects in the 20 sessions. Although five sessions in one day are much to take in, it didn’t seem to be too much. The sessions I visited were all very interesting, most presenters seemed to come well prepared. This seems to be a general notion as I have only read one or two Tweets all Saturday that were criticizing the quality of a session – fair enough!
It was good to see people again and catch up and of course to see new hot ideas. This year’s stars were undoubtedly My Swiss Chocolate, two very nice Gentlemen who will come out of closed Beta with their homemade chocolate soon! I can tell you, I have done some thorough Beta testing!
So, with Poken being the brow-raiser last year, will this be a recurring theme? Each StartupCamp bears a star company? It’ll be exciting to see who it might be next year. Speaking of which: If there will be another StartupCamp Switzerland I can’t say, and the organizers probably haven’t talked about it yet. But I can hardly imagine there will not be one.
If you’d like to keep discussing, you can do so via Twitter – make sure you use the #scs10 tag! For pictures of the Camp and the Apéro afterwards in a literally obscure wine cellar, check out this flickr pool! If you are on flickr, feel free to drop your pics there. Thumbs up to Michael and Corsin for their great shots! (Oh, and don’t miss this arty shot by @knowLED!)
Here’s a surely incomplete collection of blog posts about and presentations from the Camp: My Swiss Chocolate (in German), Swiss Startups (also in German) and here’s Corsin’s entry. He has also compiled the Startups present in a nice list (nice because Amazee is on top, of course!)
Daniel of La Table D’Hôte – being the gourmet he is – has interviewed Sven of My Swiss Chocolate, you can find the little clip here. This one’s in Swiss German. Toni, Dorian and Patrice of Memonic have uploaded their presentation “22 random hints for startups” here. And there’s even an audiofile of this here.
If you are interested in picking up leads to interesting UX readings, Roland has compiled them in his Posterous niche. If you have anything to add to this list, feel free to drop a link in the comments! And please also tell us about your experiences!
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Sorry, Jan, how could I forget your blog entry at Startwerk? This one’s in German also!
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