RSA Blog • Stefanos Karakasis • 16/05/2012 “Prepare or be prepared”. – Daan Weddepohl A deep dive session stands for a talk between a startup founder and a mentor asking a lot of questions starting with “why?”. These talks have specific themes to focus the conversation. It is up to...
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17 May 2012
RSA Blog • Stefanos Karakasis • 14/05/2012 “Without a Struggle, there is no Progress”. – Frederick Douglass When participating in a program like this, this question comes up frequently. Every participating startup is running their own race, but also engages with one another to see where they can help each...
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15 May 2012
RSA Blog • Stefanos Karakasis • 10/05/2012 Breathe in. Breathe out. Keep calm and carry on. Be clear. Whether you are pitching your company or standing in a bar smiling at someone you would like to get to know better. The teams worked on their pitches with: Joris van Heukelom...
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11 May 2012
The days of watching the rain drip are over… it is all about execution! With some self-reflection in between. Every team is working hard right now to improve that one core feature and absorbing and implementing all the great feedback they got last week from Jan Scheele, Jelle Prins, Timan...
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8 May 2012
How can I help? Ask any startup that is confronted with this question by a mentor and they will immediate go into stories about what they did, are doing now and all that they are thinking of planning to do. Yesterday we had our last meet up for all the...
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4 May 2012
Last Tuesday, the 3rd edition of the Dutch Startup Awards of The Next Web took place. Patrick de Laive, co-founder of The Next Web Blog and Conference awarded prices in several categories. We were selected ‘Best Investor’. A big honour! The road to get Rockstart Accelerator has been an amazing...
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13 April 2012