Après une superbe experience au concours de startups à The Next Web Conference 2013, Mateusz Kukulka et moi sommes rentrés à Bruxelles et on a profité pour faire une vidéo de valorisation de son expérience.

Pour ceux qui ne lui connaissent pas encore, Mateusz est un des influencers les plus importants du web et médias sociaux belges, en plus de papa, social media manager, journaliste, coworker, copy, conversationalist, et médiavore.

Le mieux pour lui a été l’opportunité de réseauter avec des gens qui sont venus de partout dans le monde, tant les grosses pointures comme les startups. D’ailleurs il a été positivement étonné par la quantité de Polonais présents (Mateusz est né en Pologne, à Gdansk).

Une des startups qui lui a plu le plus, c’est Kompany, équivalent du belge Data.be mais avec des données au niveau européen.

Mateusz a aussi bien aimé Social Seeder, une startup belge qui aide à la promotion des campagnes dans les médias sociaux via son réseau personnel et ses clients.

Infogram, le gagnant du concours, lui a aussi bien plu car l’outil est très pratique et facile à utiliser pour la création des infographiques.

Pour lui, le niveau des startups était très bon, et là on est d’accord. The Next Web Conference a un des meilleurs concours de startups du monde. Ce n’est pas seulement la sélection qui est importante : la préparation de la présentation des startups – le pitch- change tout. Pour ameliorer les présentations au Betagroup, il faut plus préparer!

Pour plus savoir de Mateusz, le mieux c’est de lire son blog et de suivre son twitter: @Mateusz.

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PeerReach is a tool to find the influencers in a topic, language and geographic area. But it does more than help you find them, it helps you understand their main areas of interest and influence in each one of them.

You probably thought of other tools that are stablished in the market- like Klout, PeerIndex and Kredly- that already do something similar. These competitors are focused on their ranking number and are not so good in defining the right areas of interest and influence.

When I first saw my profile in PeerReach and those of a couple friends I was impacted by the quality and relevance of their categorization.

The service is free for regular users, and business (marketing agencies, communication professionals, etc.) can pay for an API to integrate PeerReach with their own tools.

Nico Schoonderwoerd is the founder of an international team directed from Amsterdam. They have recently raised €250 000.

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Jini is an application for smartphones that proactively sugests you things to do based on other applications usage (like RunKeeper) and the sensor information from your phone (location, speed, light…)

Filip Maertens is the founder of this Belgian startup that can really change our mobile world. A good example of what Jini does: when he arrived to Paris to present at the Startup competition at LeWeb, Jini sugested a route to go jogging close to his hotel.

They are also building an API and SDK so that other developers can tap on Jini’s intelligence to offer even more useful services.

They are my favourite startup to win the competition at LeWeb.

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May 26, 2011

Interview with Ramon Suarez Betagroup coworking Brussels

via youtube.com

Summary of the interview with Ramon Suarez co-founder of the Betagroup coworking space Brussels

In this first part of the interview with Ramon Suarez (@ramonsuarez), co-founder with Jean Derely (@jeanderely) of the Betagroup Coworking Brussels. Ramon speaks about the genesis of the idea and how Jean and himself decided to launch a coworking place at Brussels. Ramon and Jean are both freelancers and they were looking for a place were they could work with other people. That’s how by trying to fulfill their need they decided to launch a coworking place at Brussels.

The coworking space offers an open space where freelancers and entrepreneurs in the Internet, technology & mobile industries get together to work, sharing, innovating and inspiring their peers. Besides providing a working environment, the BetaGroup coworking space hosts a range of workshops, seminars, conferences, and meetings. The Betagroup coworking place is located at ICAB at Brussels

About Ramon Suarez

Ramon is a new media business and marketing consultant, blogger, Internet & Twitter addict. Besides being one of the founding partner of the Betagroup coworking space in Brussels, he has been an active promoter of the Webmission and he has become a BetaGroup adviser. 

part one of a series of skype Interviews by Fred Ooms on his twisted business minds blog.

Thanks Fred!

I don’t want to be mean, but you guys missed it!

via Edouard Seynaeve

We had a great time.

Mmmmmm Geeks cookin’ and eatin’ with the help of Fabien Mossay. A great lunch for a bunch of hungry geeks at the Betacowork. What you do not see in the cameras is the great discussion about hacking food I had with Fabien. He’s passionate about food and shares that passion, but you can already feel that in the video.

A bit more tired everyday and also a lot more thrilled about the great experience we are going to have starting tomorrow at Startup Weekend Brussels. I can’t wait!

Video interview by Gérald Trockart.