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SWBRU Nr. 1:it was awesome!

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SWBRU in figures

84 Participants

46 ideas pitched

10 teams kicked off 7 made it to the final pitch

5 teams continue working today

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Outstanding Jury

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Vincent Van Quickenborne Marc Goldschtein Barend van den Brande Jose Zurstrassen

Brice Le Blevennec Bart Becks Walter De Brouwer Boris Lemaire

Ben Piquard

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A thought from a JuryMember

Tx for having me, my wife and I had a great time. I havenot experienced that enthusiasm other than in SiliconValley, it really made me feel good. You know that I am

the curator of TEDxBrussels and Founder Institute (andco-organizer of the new one, Quantified Self); let's all putour force together and create a 'dark horse' (Brussels)that competes with San Francisco and New York!

Perfect job, congratulations (I know these things do nothappen like just like that, it needs crazy people like weare)

Walter De Brouwer

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We made A LOT of noise

Media coverage: La Libre Belgique, Le Soir, LEcho, datanews.be, The

Bulletin.

4,542 visitors to our page, 766 visits on January 30alone

Did someone say Twitter? Check out the next page

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A surprising KPIfor a startup weekend

From: SlideShare < donotreply@slidesharemailer.com >To: kris.buytaert@gmail.comSubject: Congrats, "Devops at Startup Weekend BXL" is hot on Twitterthis hour

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 09:09:43 -0600 (CST)

"Devops at Startup Weekend BXL" is being tweeted more than anythingelse on SlideShare right now. So we've put it on the homepage ofSlideShare.net (in the "Hot on Twitter" section).

Well done!

- SlideShare Team

mailto:donotreply@slidesharemailer.commailto:kris.buytaert@gmail.commailto:kris.buytaert@gmail.commailto:donotreply@slidesharemailer.com

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35 awesome mentors

Bruno Delepierre Koen De Witte Sebastien Doyen David Hachez Wouter Bogaert

Ben Piquard Maria Encinar Filip Tack Frdric Ooms Francois Lamotte Thomas Bonte Jerome Cordiez Xavier Corman Bart De Waele David Damen Antoine Perdaens

Robin Wauters Frederik Denkens Loc Bar Mateusz Kukulka Kris Buytaert

Jef Waumans Boris Lemaire Laurent Mikolajczak Pejman Dashti Ben Caudron Marc Goldchstein Thomas Vande Casteele Marek Rusiecki Cedric Donck Vali Lalioti Sidsel Graae

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A thought from a mentor

I really had a great week-end guys, that was a real blast! Imade a lot of connections, met great people had time todeepen some of my previous connections and really feltthat we could help the groups.

Cheers again,A.

Antoine Perdaens

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#swbru keeps on kickingbutt!

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OrganizersBenedicte Duhaut (benewOrld) is a multilingual project manager on

speed and a zen adventuress in her spare time

Greg Gentschev (Brekiri) enjoys Belgian beer and working too

much, often at the same time

Leo Exter (westartup) is a marketing guy who comes up with big

ideas and usually ends up executing them

Ramon Suarez (Beta Group Coworking) is a pillar of the Belgian

entrepreneur community, avid blogger and compulsive twitterer.

http://be.linkedin.com/pub/benedicte-duhaut/1/362/673http://be.linkedin.com/in/gentschevhttp://be.linkedin.com/in/exterhttp://be.linkedin.com/in/ramonsuarezhttp://be.linkedin.com/in/ramonsuarezhttp://be.linkedin.com/in/exterhttp://be.linkedin.com/in/gentschevhttp://be.linkedin.com/in/gentschevhttp://be.linkedin.com/pub/benedicte-duhaut/1/362/673

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And a final thank-you to ourSponsors!

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