Area 31 Newsletter
Thursday 27th March 2014
Dear Area 31 Entrepreneurs and Friends
EVENTS MAR 31ST - APR 6TH
Understanding Gamification
17:00-19:00
Location: Area 31
Beyond the game elements usually implemented like points, badges and leaderboards, the design of game structures and mechanics can be a powerful tool to help us to engage our customers or employees.We need to evolve from traditional motivation, incentives and rewards based to a new concept of management or user experience based on self-determination theory, empowerment and free will of our users. This session will be lead by Manuel Espinosa, Founder of Weneru and exert in Game Theory and Behavioral Economics. RSVP here.
Venture Lab
Wednesday April 2nd 19:00-22:00
As the Venture Lab semifinals approach, the teams are accelerating the market validation of their products/services and finalize the preparation of their pitches. On Tuesday and Wednesday the Venture Lab will hold its pitch preparation bootcamp.
Area 31 Open House Day
Wednesday April 2nd, 2014
18:00-19:00
Location: Area 31
Area 31 is now recieving applications for the fourth edition of the startup incubator. Interested candidates can attend the Open House Day to visit Area 31, meet other entrepreneurs and ask questions regarding the application process and incubation in Area 31. Register here
Entrepreneurial Management Course
Thursday April 3rd, 9:00-12:00
Venture Network
Thursday April 3rd 2014
19:00-22:00
Location: Area 31
Rails Bridge Madrid
Friday April 4th, 19:00-21:00
Saturday April 5th, 9:00-16:30
Location: Area 31
Ruby on Rails is one of the most widely adopted tech stack's used by startups across the globe today. Here are some *now* well known web services run on Ruby on Rails: Twitter, Groupon, SoundCloud, ZenDesk, Basecamp, Shopify, GitHub. Just to name a few! RailsBridge curriculum is designed to empower engineers and entrepreneurs to learn by doing and to teach each other.Whether you are novice, veteran, engineer interested in new-to-you tech or an entrepreneur keen to learn enough to be dangerous .... we welcome you! Registration
IExPEERience
Location: Area 31
OPPORTUNITIES
Sherpa Summit 2014
IV Contest for Top Seeds Lab’s Startups Acceleration Program
From Top Seeds Lab, accelerator technology-based startup companies, we invite your community of entrepreneurs to submit their projects to the IV Call for our acceleration until the next day March 30, 2014. The winning project will receive from Top Seeds Lab micro-seed capital, as well as a package of services that includes accelerating availability of space in the offices of Top Seeds Lab in Madrid, mentoring by a highly experienced team of mentors qualified advice on fundraising, legal services, financial services, hosting and other services that support the development of projects during the 5 months of the acceleration process. We would like to ask your cooperation in the promotion and dissemination of our IV Call among your community of entrepreneurs and contacts spreading the attached poster and inviting them to enroll. Learn more
FROM THE BLOG
Tyba, Founded by IE Alumni, Present at Betabeers
This past Friday Tyba, a startup founded by IE Alumni, presented at the 41st edition of Betabeers Madrid held at IE’s Area 31. There was a great turnout with just over a hundred in attendance. This was an amazing opportunity for students to learn from the startups who pitched their products and also to learn about strategies for hiring IT professionals. Read more
AVAILABILITY OF THE SPACE
- Tuesday, April 1st, 7pm-10pm, half of the space will be available for coworking
- Wednesday, April 2nd, 7pm-10pm , half of the space will be available for coworking
- Thursday, April 3rd, 9am-12pm, half of the space will be available for coworking
- Friday, April 4th, 7pm-9pm, half of the space will be available for coworking
- Saturday April 5th, 9am-4:30pm, half of the space will be available for coworking
- Sunday, April 6th, 9am-1pm, half of the space will be available for coworking