Day #1 – Tuesday

After the flight from Berlin TXL to Dublin DUB via Frankfurt FRA we arrived at our living quarters in the evening.

There we had to get a small doses of internet, before we went out to find something to eat. We ended up in the Aussie BBQ for some nice good burgers and spicy hot wings.

Later we took a look at the pubs right around the corner of the hostel and went to bed early since we had to be at our stand at 8:30 am the next morning

Day #2 – Wednesday

As you can see there wasn’t really much space. So every of the approx. 450 startups had a shelf which was 1 meter wide. About 15 of these stands were next to each other before there was a gap to the next row. Straight across our stand there were more stands. The distance between both sides was about 3,5 meters. So the whole situation was extremely narrow.

In the morning there were free snacks for everyone. Drinks were free the whole time.

The downside was that the internet wasn’t working at all. Who could have guessed that 10.000 visitors with around 15.000 wifi devices would like to access the internet?!? So yeah.. we ended up buffering a couple of websites and clips over 3G tethering in different browser tabs to be able to show at least something. A real demo wasn’t possible.

At the same time there was the food summit like 10 minutes away from the compound. There we tasted a big variety of meals and snacks that have been produced by over 60 food businesses of Ireland.

In the evening we went to the night summit which basically meant free drinks for everyone for most of the night and all kinds of live music in several bars in the middle of Dublin. On our way through the city we discovered the following store.

Day #3 – Thursday

On thursday morning we participated at the Halloween Brunch which was hosted by Shadow. Besides good food and nice chats they had awesome couch tables there.

Later we went to the conference as usual visitors, checked out a bunch of startups and watched some presentations and talks.
For example we saw Tony Hawk, Elon Musk, Shane Smith and the Irish PM Enda Kenny. Especially the talks on the main stage were nice to see and can be streamed over the internet.

From the pool of startups we especially liked the Austrian guys from Patio and their app as well as the Berlin crew that is working on Delight, a native 3D engine for the web.

At night we stopped by at the closing party that was sponsored by Microsoft Bing and was just one massive fail. All visitors got half a free drink. We arrived at 11 pm and beer was already empty. Furthermore the party was in a courtyard and not inside. That wasn’t very fun at felt 5°C and probably also the reason for why there were only like 30 people there. At 12 pm the party closed already.

Subsequent we headed to a pub with some live music. Later Bojan decided to raise some money as a street musician to further bootstrap the development of cliperize.

Day #4 – Friday

On the last way we flew back home to Berlin TXL. This time with a stopover in Stockholm ARN.

Conclusion

It was a couple of good days in Dublin where we met some interesting startups and made some great contacts. Moreover we also got some valuable input on our project.
More news to follow soon!

Best,
cliperize

I’ll call this post “Monday Lunch Music N° 1″, haha. Have a nice start into this week. Cheers

hope you all had a great weekend. Here is some music to kick this week off. Enjoy!

hope you all had a great weekend. Here is some music to kick this week off. Enjoy!

here is our latest Monday Morning Music post. Have a nice week!

Day #1 – Wednesday

After an 6 hour ride from Augsburg with an hour holdup because of a traffic jam we arrived in Berlin and went straight to the guys of Dropspot that a part of us worked for. Recently they moved into the rooms of the Axel Springer Plug & Play Accelerator. We received a nice intro to the accelerator as well as great advice regarding cliperize. Thanks again!

Afterwards we visited the fine people of stylemarks in their office which is located in the building of ImmobilienScout. We know them from hub:raum Accelerator from winter 2012 and have been working for them on a regular basis. Since they were kind of busy we had to kill some time with Guitar Hero.

About 3 hours later we grabbed some excellent Schawarma to eat and planned the next couple of days.

Day #2 – Thursday

In the morning we went to the Tech Open Air which took place at Kater Holzig where we spent the whole day eating and drinking. Besides interesting talks and presentations we took multiple boat rides on the Spree river.

In the evening we pitched our idea as one of five selected startups at the Pitch Clinic Vol. II. We didn’t win but at least someone got a bit wet, though.

A couple of drinks later we moved to the after party at Flux Bau. Partially by boat.

Day #3 – Friday

After a two hour working session in the morning we went to the Axel Springer Hangover Breakfast on the rooftop of their headquarter.

Since we arrived towards the end of the breakfast most of the good stuff was already gone and so we only got some pretzels and liquid butter. After this we had a stopover at the 3D-printing event at DaWanda’s. They were scanning peoples’ torsos with a Microsoft Kinect that were printed out in 3D afterwards.

Later we helped out stylemarks at finishing their web app that was launched earlier this week. You can take a look here: stylemarks.de. The day ended with another fantastic night!

Day #4 – Saturday

Not that much happened on Saturday since we’ve been working all day at stylemarks.
But we achieved this:

Day #5 – Sunday

Sunday? Workday.
In the evening we went to the SUOL Open Air.

Day #6 – Monday

Monday morning there was abandoned luggage in front of the place we stayed. While waiting for a bomb squad the police blocked the whole street and told everyone to stay inside and close all windows. We went straight to the office and worked until 3 am in the morning which equals about 17 hours.

Day #7 – Tuesday

With like 4 hours of sleep besides work not much happened that day. In the evening we went to the White Trash Restaurant and played some Pac-Man.

We also got fortune cookies and one of them had two pieces of wisdom in it that really hit the spot.

Day #8 – Wednesday

On our last day in Berlin we were working as usual, took a random picture and travelled back to Augsburg.

In summary we had an excellent time and want to greet everyone we met and had the pleasure to receive their advice regarding cliperize.

Until next time!

Source for some of the images: Heisenberg Media

We’ve got an amazing time here in Berlin and decided to stay a bit longer. So here are our tracks for the week featuring Ollie from stylemarks.

Enjoy!