Join us for a weekend of classes and events celebrating the marriage of technology and craftsmanship in Berlin. We have the the city’s most prominent artisans and tech experts to educate emerging entrepreneurs on how to leverage technology to grow their businesses and expand their craft. And we gonna party!
betapitch | Vienna this Saturday!
We’ve received a lot of application and it was not easy for our pre-jury consisiting of Yves Schultz and Kathrin Folkendt our friends from sektor5, Ondrej Gandel from inventures.eu and Klaus Matzka, our head of jury and former founder of Gamma Capital, to come up with the 10 finalists, who will present at thebetapitch I Vienna event… Read more »
GUEST BLOGPOST: WHY MOST STARTUPS THAT GOT BOUGHT DON’T HAVE A VC FUNDING
From time to time we’ll publish a guest blogpost by the editors at Fueled. The first one is from Chrissy Giglio. Enjoy: Why Most Startups that got Bought Don’t Have VC Funding: With new data from 2012, we’re able to see some interesting trends that are occurring in the world of startups. This past year there were… Read more »
AZUBI WANTED
Our event dreamteam is looking for an trainee (in German we call it Azubi zum “Veranstaltungskaufmann/frau). You would love to become an event manager one day? Then start your 3 year trainee program at betahaus | Berlin. You can apply for it via our profil at somewhere. And this is what we are looking for:… Read more »
2 BETAPITCH ALUMNIS WON AT HYBERLIN
2 of the betapitch alumnis won the last hyberlin competition! We are so proud of our two awesome teams! Solarbrush and knowable both startups won 10.000€ cash and a trip to Silicon Valley!Upfront hundreds of startups, entrepeneurs and VCs from all over Europe and US they both did the best pitches ever! Congrats to Ridha Azaiz founder of Solarbrush - a robot which… Read more »
TIMON SCHROETER
Please briefly describe yourself and what you do: I work as a web developer, consultant and trainer. In web development, I am a specialist for server side programming using the language PHP. Backends, databases and APIs are my strong suit. Read more about it on php-entwickler-berlin.de. In terms of technology I am a big fan… Read more »
YEAH!! GENERAL ASSEMBLY OFFERS 500€ SCHOLARSHIP FOR BETAHAUS MEMBERS
Learn Front End Web Development at GA Berlin! With a € 500 Scholarship for betahaus Members!! We’ve all had days when we feel like a cog in the machine. We want bigger. We want better. And we want to do our own thing. We look at Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos or Marissa Mayer and think, “Hey,… Read more »
STAFF OF THE WEEK: CEVAHIR BARUT
You probably already know Cevahir, he started working at betahaus last September and he is the barmanager of our café. You can recognize him because he always wear a mütze. Thanks to him we can enjoy the weekly event betabreakfast and he is also an important member of the events team. He moved to… Read more »
SOLARBRUSH
Solarbrush not only won the last betapitch but also is part of the hub:raum Accelerator Program. Alessandro did an interview with Ridha, the founder of Solarbrush. What is Solarbrush all about? Weathering can negatively affect solar power plants; in particular, panels installed in dry areas can lose efficiency due to sand deposits on them. Solarbrush is… Read more »
BOND’S BUNTE WELT – MAGAZINE
“Bond´s bunte Welt” is a fascinating new magazine published by our member Marcus Bond. There are only 200 pieces on sales. Get your issue in betahauscafé for only 6,- Euro! Alessandro our intern did an interview with Marcus Bond: Please provide a short description of the Magazine “Bond´s bunte Welt” is a mixture of GEO,… Read more »
EISENHOWER
What is Eisenhower and how did you come up with the idea? Eisenhower is a task management solution based on the proven Eisenhower matrix, a time management principle by former US president Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Eisenhower matrix helps you to prioritize both your business and personal tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent… Read more »
DESIGN FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
What is Design for Social Change? Design for Social Change (D4SC) is a win-win-win social impact business for communities, local businesses and global brands. We are creating Changify – A Kickstarter for civic change linked to a realtime locality and brand index where your change projects are brought to life by direct backing from people… Read more »
RAILSONFIRE
What is Railsonfire? “Software is eating the world” as Marc Andreessen says and in this software industrial revolution, software engineers need to release their software in faster cycles and with less bugs. We provide them a hosted continuous testing and especially continuous deployment service to address both of those needs. Currently, most of the developers… Read more »
PEOPLE IN BETA (SESSION) AT CONVENTION CAMP 2012
You can’t get creative insights sitting behind an office desk.
BLINKIST
Interview by Alessandro Vercesi What is Blinkist and how did you come up with the idea? Blinkist is a smartphone-tablet app that answers the need of using spare time in a useful and rewarding way. The goal of the app is to give users the possibility to read the core ideas of non-fictional books in their… Read more »
WAHWAH.FM
What is wahwah FM? Wahwah FM is a new form of radio App, more precisely it is a cloud searching radio which the user is able influence in different ways. The main idea behind wahwah FM is giving the possibility to users to listen the same song someone else is listening to in a synchronized… Read more »
PEDRO PINEDA
Pedro was born in the Canary Islands, after studying Design & Technology in London, he moved to Berlin where he is developing different ways to apply collective & creative problem solving to challenges that affect us as individuals or as society. He sees design as a tool to create experiences. For him “is not enought… Read more »
NEW FLOOR ALMOST FINISHED
Good news, the summer of construction at betahaus is almost over! Since weeks Kim Wang and his team are working hard on our new floor. 5 of 9 teamrooms are already finished and the first teams moved in. From now on you will meet the teams: Somewhere, Car2Go and Wahwah.fm (doing a restart soon) in their new… Read more »
ROUTENGURU
Routenguru is an online travel platform that helps users to create their own trip. Users only need to know where they want to go and when they are planning their trip.
STAFF OF THE WEEK: PEER WARNKE
You probably all know Peer – he started working for betahaus in Octobre 2011 in the event section and belongs to the heart of our crew. Without him, we wouldn’t be able to host events and guests as we do. This staff of the week blogentry will tell you a little bit more about Peers… Read more »
