Develop your technology potential!

For partners
 Story*
Slovenia as the best place for starting a new
technological company.

We start building an environment (virtual and real) for

education, team building, events, platform …

The environment is connected to local partners

(universities, industry, institutes, technology park …)

At the end everything is connected with global market

– Silicon Valley. That is an opportunity for new global
start-up companies.

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*For details, look reserve slides
 For participants
Do you want to realise your technological
idea?

Experience an active summer and realise your

technological idea with help from our trainers
and partners from companies and the
University.

Be the best and earn a trip to the Silicon Valley

with BoundBreaker, where you will make sure
your project is the winner. 3
 Participants
• STUDENTS FROM South-East EUROPE REGION*:
• With previous experience
• Active in summer
• 20 – 40 will be chosen
• 10-15 mentors
• Participation fee 300€
• Included: food,
events, equipment, mentors ...
*Participants from other countries are also welcome
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To motivate and occupy the best students
 Fields of work
We will realise technological ideas like:
•Mobile applications…
•Internet web 2.0 …
•Hardware …

… and other similar fields, for which we will ensure

mentors and partners.
Advantage will have green ideas.
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 Timeline

Promotion and introduction project demoDay

~20.5 1.6. 1.7. 1.8. 1.9.

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LAUNCH
INTRODUCTIVE WORK
APPLICATIONS WORKSHOPS

Deadline for
aplications*

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* The program will only be realised if at least 20 students participate
 Steps
I. Submitting applications and ideas – until July, 2010

II. Active progress:

• 5 days of work per week, individual help of our mentors

• Active weekends

• From 1. July until 15. august 2010

III. demoDay: final act and presentation to partners

Deadline for submitting applications: 1. July, 2010 7

 “Soft skills”
• Other important skills
• Entrepreneurship
• Presentation of projects, public appearance
• Finances
• Cooperation with skilled mentors
• Providing comprehensive knowledge (not only
from technical areas)
Everything that makes a student of technology perfect 8
 Besides work:
included in the fee
• Food (1 warm meal daily) + 2 lunches +
fruits + fresh drinks
• Sports activities in morning and evening
o Swimming (Kodeljevo)
o Basketball (Kolezija)

• Social activities

Sports and social activities 9

 demoDay
• Around september 15th 2010
• Presentation of ideas to partners and investors
• Option to continue working and realise ideas at
Hekovnik
• Chance to start a business

• PRIZES:
o A trip to Silicon Valley and presentation of idea
o Help with starting a business
o Special prize: Best green idea
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Presentation of results and chance to work on projects in the future
 Contribution of partners
• Mentors

• Cofinancing and organising activities

• Specialised equipment

• Media coverage

• Support and promotion

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 Potential partners
• Locals

• Industry

• Universities, institutes

• Media partners

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 Partner classes
Competence
Benefites / class Media partner General partner
partner
€ 5.000 /
Contribution € 1.000 € 10.000
equipment
Web promotion X X X
Publication
promotion
X X X
Inside view of
projects
X X X
Promotions on
events
X X X
Participants CV
view
X X
Voting for
projects
X X
Voting for
winners
X X
Press release X
Logo on T-shirts X
Name of the event X
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 Mentors / trainers
• 10 – 15 mentors
• Come from partners
• Cover a narrow field of expertise
• Can engage in projects
• Help with harder tasks
• Prepare a professional lecture for everyone

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Experience and knowledge, that transfer to groups of students
 Coordinating team
• Tomaž Frelih – Project manager

• Tina Vodopivec – Operative

• Kristjan Pečanac – Motivation and lectures

• Simon Belak – Leader of commissions and technical leader

• Filip Dobranič – Leader of “Soft Skills” courses

• Nina Gržinič – Media

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Skilled team with experience in managing large projects
 Finances
Source of expences Minimal (20 participants) Maximal (40 participants)

Workshops 2.000,00 € 10.000,00 €

Food 8.000,00 € 11.000,00 €
Mentors 2.000,00 € 5.000,00 €
Organisation 4.000,00 € 5.000,00 €
Supporting activities 1.000,00 € 5.000,00 €
Prize for winners 4.000,00 € 4.000,00 €
Accomodations
(foreigners) 4.000,00 € 5.000,00 €
Sum 25.000,00 € 50.000,00 €
Source of founding Minimal (20 participants) Maximal (40 participants)

Participants 5.000,00 € 10.000,00 €

Partners 1x5k = 5.000,00 € 4x5k = 20.000,00 €
Sponsors (media, others) 5x1k= 5.000,00 € 10x1k= 10.000,00 €
Geeral partner 10.000,00 € 10.000,00 €
Sum € 25.000 € 50.000
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We will adjust the project according to financial capability
 Promotion
CHANNELS / RANGE SLOVENIA SOUTH-EAST EU
Web page X X
Partner: Technology Park LJ X X
Partner: CEED Slovenia X
Partner: COTRUGLI BS X X
Partner: Business angels SLO X
Partner: EESTEC, BEST X
Partner: Kiberpipa X X
Partner: Microsoft X X
Partner: FE/FRI (University) X
Partner: Mladi podjetnik X
Partner: RTV SLO X
Partner: Slo-Tech forum X
Mailing lists, social networks … X X
FB & TWITTER X X
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 Goal(s)
START NEW TECHNOLOGICAL
COMPANIES
• Promotion of partners
• New educated teams / individuals
• Ideas (fully or partially realized)
• Promotion of Slovenia and Ljubljana
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Motivation is what gets you started, habit is what keeps you going
Contact:

Tomaž Frelih
tomaz@hekovnik.si
+386 41 444 845

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Reserve slides:

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 Environment for development
People, €

Challenger
Ideas
Individuals Global market
Hekovnik
Universities
Silicon Valley
Institutes BoundBraker
SummerCamp
Slovenia Companies

SE Europe
Build a bridge between local Slovenian hi-tech environment 21
and global market of high technology
 Challenger (“izzivalnik”)
• Series of motivation and education workshops
– Faculty of electrical engineering : Cyber Reaktor
– faculty of computer and information science : Sinap.si
• Areas:
– Intellectual property
– Hi-tech startups
– New technologies
• Public:
– Students, assistants, young researchers
• Put in place all legal stuff (patents, licensing …)

Goal 2010: One event per month/institution with 30

participants
 Hekovnik
infrastructure + community
• 3 rooms in Technology park Ljubljana (tables,
internet)
• “Viharnica”, “čajnica”, “črna soba”
• Community - current:
• 36 members
• 1 common event per week
• Workshops, debates …
• Social events
• Sport events for members
• Competence centers:
I. Mobile & Web
II.Hardware
III.Biotechnology
Goal 2010: 100 members, 3 events/week
 BoundBraker (“Brezmejnik”)
• Workshops for start-up companies
• Bridge between Ljubljana (SLO) and Silicon Valley
• Transfer of start-up culture from Silicon Valley to
Slovenia
• Put Slovenia on world hi-tech map
• Build Slovenian house in Silicon Valley
• Goals 2010:
• Prepared 1st generation (10 teams)
• Visit Silicon Valley – sep-nov 2010
“Silicon valley it is not a place it is a state of mind”