StartUs Weekly Round Up #35

It’s Friday, so you know what’s coming – another weekly round up from StartUs, another week packed with exciting news from the European startup scene!  This time we’ll provide you with tips for starting up in a different city, new startups which tell their stories and of course news from our HQ in Vienna.

Weekly Round Up #35 at StartUs Magazine

Mures Startup City Guide

This week we’ve published our 27th Startup City Guide already – wow, time flies!
We’d like to introduce you to the entrepreneurial scene of Mures, located in the north-central part of Romania, an IT country on the rise. The city offers a welcoming community and a relaxed environment for launching your startup. Learn more on the best ways to get your business going, find like-minded people and where to get funding.

You think your city got all the things you need to found? Then let’s get in touch and tell the European community about it!

StartUs Presents

As you know we feature interviews with startups that you’ll find interesting and can learn from. This time we talked to Leo Brunnhofer from TaskTillDone, an app that connects entrepreneurs and startups with freelancers to outsource their work and get every kind of business task done.
Péter Szántó from SpringTab talks about their mission to create as many versions of a website as the number of visitors it gets – the startup is all about personalization to increase conversion.
TutoTod is a tutorial for Toddlers, an educational app that offers 49 arts and crafts tutorials for children. It also offers parents ideas on how to spend quality time with their children.

Apart from startup interviews we also talk to investors and see what they want to share with you. In this edition we talked to Marcin Szelag, a partner of Innovation Nest, where he invests in early stage SaaS startups. Learn what it takes to impress him!

You would also like to talk about your startup or your experience as an entrepreneur? Great, all you need to do is request an interview!

Articles You’ll Enjoy Reading

Ever heard about EdTech startups? No? Well then it’s about time you do! Dive into this article and discover this branch as your first route-to-market.
In case you’re not sure whether you should already start your business or not, we can help you out. Check out these tips and find out if you’re ready to found your startup. Once you’ve found your own company you want to get sales up. However, there are quite a few things you have to consider to actually close a sale. Which ones you ask? Here are 5 must-understand sales activities.
One sale is nice but definitely not enough. You have to keep your clients coming back for more. One of the best ways to do so is Customer Relationship Management. But we’re not specifically talking about the technology here, rather about what it really should be about: relationship. Find out how to use them to satisfy your customers. Another way to make them happy is value. People who buy your product or service most likely do so to get a certain value out of it. Not sure what your’s is? Check out this article to find out and learn how to implement it.

And what about StartUs?

New Hub Reporters Welcome!

Our hub community is growing – yay! We’d like to introduce you to Nadiia and Paul:

• Nadiia Kerymova is our hub reporter responsible for Lausanne (CH), for which see will also write the startup city guide so stay tuned! Apart from that she also was part of the Axel Springer accelerator in Berlin and is an enthusiastic blogger.
• Paul Allen will be joining us from Dublin and cover software reviews useful for startups. His first article is coming up soon! Apart from writing for us he also runs his own blog Corp Leagues.

You also have to share interesting stories from your hub? Then get in touch right away and become a reporter for StartUs Magazine!

StartUs Connect Bratislava 2.0

Yes, that’s right! Already the second edition of #StartUsConnect is coming to Bratislava. For this special event we teamed up with the Central European Startup Awards (CESA) who will announce their news and submissions for Slovakia. Also we invited two prominent speakers from Bratislava and Vienna, covering finance for startups and success stories.
There are still some free tickets left so make sure you get yours! Further infos can be found here – look forward to see you next week!

Headline Of The Week

To finish up our round up: our personal headline of the week.
This is a phrase you can add to your StartUs profile, giving people an impression of what you’re all about.
The quote we feature here is chosen by our staff out of the many profiles online at StartUs.

“Got to love what you do!” by Katerina Georgiou

See you next Friday for new updates and news, have a good one!

 

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