Northern StartUp Christmas Special on 16th December 2009
9:30 – 5pm – The eOffice Manchester Co-working Open Day
From 9:30am to 5pm, Northern Startup will be offering a co-working day at eOffice Manchester, for free. You will get your own desk for the day with free Wi-Fi and sample eOffice’s working environment alongside like-minded individuals.
There are currently 15 places remaining, so grab a workstation now to avoid disappointment.
6 – 9pm – Northern StartUp Christmas Pitching Special
Difference Engine Launch
Jon Bradford, the brains behind the Difference Engine, an improved version of Y-Combinator from Silicon Valley and Seedcamp from London will be launching his new initiative to the North West on the 16th.
The Difference Engine is a full time 16 week acceleration programme which combines investment capital of £20,000 (for 8% of the business) with mentoring, support and office accommodation with various other services provided by partners. At the conclusion of the programme the businesses will be expected to be investor ready, and will have to present their businesses and products to a group of venture capitalists and angel investors at a demo day.
StartUp Pitching
Up to 10 companies are encouraged to deliver 5 minute pitches to the audience made up of investors, tech entrepreneurs, deal makers and friends. The Q&A time for each pitch will be determined by number of pitches booked. There is no additional cost to pitch. If you are interested in pitching, please get in touch immediately.
Prizes for best pitch
- Package from Salesforce.com (winner plus participants)
Companies confirmed includes:
- Little World Gifts – Virtual Gifts
- Whamoosh! – Personalised greeting cards
- edocr – Generating sales leads from your documents
- OnePage – Realtime business cards
- VisiDeck – Architectural Visualisation
- Konkura – Challenge everyone
- Distinct ID – Converged Identity Platform
- Canddi – On-line Campaign Management
