Announcement of Start-up focused XXX DevClub.lv

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Are you passionate to build your own start-up or you`ve already started your journey? Don`t make the same mistake as others did, learn from their experience!

Gain knowledge in what might await you around the start-up corner at Start-up focused XXX DevClub.lvat 16th April 18:30 at Microsoft Latvia office (Zaļā iela 1)!

Agenda of Start-up focused XXX DevClub.lv:

• Oleg Bogdanov from Evolution Latvia will give a talk "My startup experience and lesson learned"
  In my talk I would like to show number startup in area of Financial, Social, Marketing, Mobile, Gaming and Gaming startup I participated, its outcomes and lesson learned. Covering old and new way of startups, pitching, rising funds, accelerators and startup toolbox. 
  (Language – English)
  Tags: Lean startup

  Oleg Bogdanov – 18 years of extensive IT product/project management experience in software development field. Successfully managed the implementation of enterprise systems for internet payments, internet gaming/gambling, re-insurance and mobile.
   

• Ilgvars Jēcis from ByerDeck will give a talk "Startup Journey: from first line of code to first paying customer". I will share my experience on building a startup for almost 2 years – a journey from the first line of code to the first paying customer. I will give opinionated view of things that worked really well and things that failed for us at ByerDeck and why startups is not all unicorns and rainbows.
• (Slides – English, Speach – Latvian)
  Tags: Startups, Continious Delivery, CI, Cloud, Ansible

  Ilgvars Jēcis is a CTO & co-founder of ByerDeck. They are a small startup trying to change the way complex B2B sales are done. They use bunch of tools like Java, Groovy, Javascript, Angular, Mongo, Ansible etc. 
   

• Martin Villig from Taxify will talk about "Challenges when expanding multi-platform Taxify mobile apps to multiple countries". Nowdays many "real life" processes move to mobile apps. Taxify is mobile app allowing easy & fast taxi ordering compared to calling taxi dispatchers. Taxify currently operates in Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and four other countries. What have been the challenges when developing multi-platform mobile apps and same time launching services in multiple countries.
  (Language – English)
  Tags: startup, taxify, business development, expansion, engineering, mobile, apps 

  Martin Villig is a co-founder of Taxify, leading taxi booking application in Northern-Europe, with over 250`000 users in eight countries. Martin is also helping actively Estonian and Baltic startup community, being co-founder of Estonian Startup Leaders Club and Garage48 Foundation.

   

Taxify is a simple mobile app that puts you in charge of taxi ordering, choose taxis by price, distance or car model. After confirming your order, you will see taxi arriving on the map. Taxify works in Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Tbilisi and beyond. 
NB! Taxify launched "crazy" discount campaign in Riga, Eco class taxis just €0,19/km, cheaper than public transport! Give it a try and invite your friends!
 

Clusterpoint has extended deadline for submissions to developer contest – Clusterpoint Challenge 2015 – until April 20. There are almost two more weeks to develope your application which uses Clusterpoint Cloud Service, submit it and qualify for finals to win EUR 3000 cash prize! For additional info, visit Clusterpoint Challenge website.
 

Did you know about Labs of Latvia ? It is a startup community platform providing information from and about Latvian startup scene to the world.
 

Join with your IT startup BizSpark.com to get all Microsoft software/development tools, free cloud services up to 750$/month and access to business and technical support from Microsoft..
 

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