Οι ελληνικες startups ειναι εδω
For those of you that were not among the 250 lucky ones who felt the real vibe, but for all of us who want to hear it again and again, too, here goes the video of Jason Calacanis speech, a couple of days ago at Open Coffee Athens XV. There’s just one thing to be said, go watch it now!
Kudos to Costas Vlachakis for the excellent coverage.
Below you can watch the slides from the Stream08 conference held at Marathon. Stream was a marketing focused unconference but attracted a great deal of web personalities and investors.
Our presentation was a (successful) attempt at taping on the power of the collective mind, and finding ways to improve the perceived problems here.
The presentation was intro-ed by George Tziralis, first part by Dimitris Athanasiadis and second by Georgios Kasselakis.
As always, negative comments are the most useful ones.
He is the founder & CEO of Mahalo. Co-organizer of TechCrunch 50. Entrepreneur in Action at Sequoia Capital. He has founded Silicon Alley Reporter, Rising Tide Studios and Weblogs Inc. He has served as General Manager of Netscape and Senior Vice President of AOL. Naturally, he also enjoys wide attention in his twitter account, mailing list, both new and old media.
In a few words, Jason Calacanis is nearly a synonym of a serial web entrepreneur, an icon for start-up addicts who, in his own words, has switched from nobody to media titan again and again. His name makes it also clear, he’s greek in origin and he’s doing things well.
At this point, let me just share the joy and excitement: We’re thrilled to announce that Jason will join us in the forthcoming Open Coffee Athens XV, to meet you all people and inspire us about the things he’s among the most qualified people around the globe to talk about: the passion for technology and entrepreneurship.
The meeting, as expected, will take place in the evening of Tuesday, October 7th, save the date and tune back in here for the specific details later this week.
It was by pure coincidence that we found out about it only a bit ago. The second iteration of Stream is happening in Athens, Greece. Around 200 people from “the creative, media and technology industries around the world” will participate to this anti-conference where apparently the only requirement for being there is that you contribute. Be it by helping with the logistics, hosting a workshop, giving a talk, performing in one of the events or simply cooking your favourite dish for the rest of the attendees you could in principle land a spot. It’s just that and an invitation of course – it is by invitation only. With an impressive list of tech and new media ‘luminaries’ attending (including Jason Calacanis, Jeff Pulver and Tim O’Reilly) however, it’s worth having a go at being there.
We keep the best part for the end. Yes, Transifex by Dimitris Glezos is a very promising, while already operational endeavour and -as far as we know- Transifex is by now hiring. So, take a close look at Dimitri’s presentation in the TechCrunch / OpenCoffee event (video and presentation file embedded below), think of the concept and its potential and -why not- ping Dimitris for the details.
Clearly, a lot of time has passed since we co-hosted the greatest of our events so far with TechCrunch. But, it is also clear that it takes time for things to mature and coverage to conclude (even our esteemed guest has yet to publish his own minutes – rest assured that he will though). So, let me now proceed with the event’s coverage, providing you the video and presentation of Qualia or “I came, I saw, aino” by Iason Demiros.