Germany

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Upcoming Events

Thursday, October 5

Ted Persson - Design Partner, EQT Ventures

Fireside Chat

Ted is EQT Ventures’ Design Partner. In this role, he helps portfolio companies with product development and design, branding and marketing.

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Thursday, November 9

Trent McConaghy - BigchainDB Founder and CTO

Fireside Chat

Trent and his colleagues at BigchainDB & IPDB are building a public blockchain database for the internet. Previously, he co-founded Solido to help drive Moore's Law with AI; its technology is now widely deployed in most modern devices. He has written two textbooks, a PhD, and dozens of peer-reviewed papers, patents, and essays on AI, decentralization, machine creativity, and the future.

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Past Events

Tim Schumacher - Serial Entrepreneur (Adblock Plus, Ecosia, TS Ventures)

Tim Schumacher - Serial Entrepreneur (Adblock Plus, Ecosia, TS Ventures)

 Steve Bartlett - CEO and co-founder of Social Chain

Steve Bartlett - CEO and co-founder of Social Chain

 Nikolas Woischnik - Founder of Tech Open Air, Ahoy! Berlin and Openers

Nikolas Woischnik - Founder of Tech Open Air, Ahoy! Berlin and Openers

 Robin Eric Haak (Entrepreneur and Investor)

Robin Eric Haak (Entrepreneur and Investor)

 Ramzi Rizk (EyeEM)

Ramzi Rizk (EyeEM)

 Jan Bohl (Ableton)

Jan Bohl (Ableton)

 Joana Breidenbach (betterplace.org)

Joana Breidenbach (betterplace.org)

 Christian Nagel (Earlybird Venture Capital)

Christian Nagel (Earlybird Venture Capital)

 Claude Ritter (Founder BOOK A TIGER & Delivery Hero)

Claude Ritter (Founder BOOK A TIGER & Delivery Hero)

 Verena Pausder (Founder Fox & Sheep)

Verena Pausder (Founder Fox & Sheep)

 Jens Begemann (Founder & CEO Wooga) (Wooga)

Jens Begemann (Founder & CEO Wooga) (Wooga)

 Franziska v. Hardenberg (Bloomy Days)

Franziska v. Hardenberg (Bloomy Days)

 Jörg Rheinboldt (CEO AS Plug Play Accelerator)

Jörg Rheinboldt (CEO AS Plug Play Accelerator)

 Stephan Uhrenbacher (Founder 9flats & Qype)

Stephan Uhrenbacher (Founder 9flats & Qype)

 Andreas Thümmler (Corporate Finance Partners)

Andreas Thümmler (Corporate Finance Partners)

 Heiko Rauch (Founder Zanox & UFOstart)

Heiko Rauch (Founder Zanox & UFOstart)

 Holger Weiss (AUPEO!)

Holger Weiss (AUPEO!)

 Arndt Kwiatkowski (Founder Immobilienscout24)

Arndt Kwiatkowski (Founder Immobilienscout24)

 Stephan Schambach (Demandware)

Stephan Schambach (Demandware)

Team

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Maroje Guertl

Chapter Director

Maroje is the Chapter Director of Startup Grind Berlin, the local chapter of a community of over 200 Chapters in 80 countries designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. Startup Grind's values of giving, helping others, and making friends have spread across the world. Since 2012 Startup Grind has hosted 4,000 events for more than 200,000 entrepreneurs.

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Johannis Hatt

Co-Director

Berlin Co-Director - Johannis Hatt is a passionate business angel and founder. He studied International Management in Oxford, Paris and Berlin at ESCP-EAP, for which he successfully obtained a master’s degree. After having worked for three years in strategy consulting, Johannis went on to follow his true passion: entrepreneurship. Johannis has founded several companies, focusing on B2B solutions, software and e-commerce. Among those are: productsup – a cloud-based software provider for managing and optimizing product data; Faceadnet - the leading German Vertical Content Network with more than 60 million Facebook fans and over 40 million impressions each month (sold to Ströer); Myprinting.com (entered into a strategic partnership with Hewlett-Packard) and NativeAds (merged with Seeding Alliance). In his spare time, Johannis frequently volunteers as a guest speaker at Leonhard.eu - a program that supports entrepreneurship for convicts.

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Steve Glange

Regional Director Europe - Central

Steve Glange launched the FirstTuesday network in the Greater Region and became board member of the global network. He is also a founding board member of Luxembourg Business Angels Network where he served as board member of EBAN. He was ambassador for XING in Luxembourg. He assisted launching and developing emerging companies and holds various advisory board seats. He is also a UN conference speaker and lecturer at Georgia Tech Institute. He uses his analytical and innovative skills around a good robusto cigar. Steve is an experienced networked solution broker.

From the Blog

How To Get Employees To Really Engage

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Robyn Forman 2015-03-25T16:04:30+00:00
At Startup Grind you can learn about how to maximize your employees' talents, how to connect with them better, and how to motivate people.  You can learn how to turn a dud into a stud in the office, and how to work on team-building exercises.
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