Startup Pirates Battle - 2011 November 19, 2011 - Porto The event was a success and we are very happy with the feedback we received. Our goals were accomplished: we wanted to organize an event to promote Portuguese startups and we wanted to create funding opportunities to those startups. Besides, we wanted to celebrate the Global Entrepreneurship Week by bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, wannabe entrepreneurs, investors and incubators. It was a very intense day. Throughout the day, startups were competing with each other, by pitching their products/services and business models, for a place in the final round. Besides the Startup Competition and the Startup Fair, we also had a Conference with Diamantino Costa, co-founder at Critical Software, Vítor Dinis, CFO at Pathena, Ricardo Diniz, sailor and serial entrepreneur and Alex Barrera, Spanish serial entrepreneur and one of the promoters of the Tetuan Valley and Startup Bootcamp Madrid.

1. Event Report
November 19, 2011 | Porto
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2. The event was a huge success and we are very happy with the feedback we
received.
Our goals were accomplished: we wanted to organize an event to promote
Portuguese startups and we wanted to create funding opportunities to those
startups. Besides, we wanted to celebrate the Global Entrepreneurship Week
by bringing together entrepreneurs, startups, wannabe entrepreneurs,
investors and incubators.

3. It was a very intense day. Throughout the day, startups were competing with
each other, by pitching their products/services and business models, for a place
in the final round.
Besides the Startup Competition and the Startup Fair, we also had a Conference
with Diamantino Costa, co-founder at Critical Software, Vítor Dinis, CFO at
Pathena, Ricardo Diniz, sailor and serial entrepreneur and Alex Barrera, Spanish
serial entrepreneur and one of the promoters of the Tetuan Valley and Startup
Bootcamp Madrid.

4. Startup Pirates Battle in numbers
Startups: 12
Attendees: 130
Speakers: 4
Investors: 10
Prizes: 6
Ambassadors: 6
Sponsors: 4
Partners: 10
Media Partners: 4

5. Startups
DK100 InPhytro
Car Rental pick.ee
CEM - Casas em Movimento Powa
Digital Active TV Spreadzed
egend.me tymr
Ex-Libris URBANITY

6. Winners
1. Powa
2. InPhytro
3. Ex-libris

7. Testimonials
Nuno Pereira (Powa)
"All the good vibe of the event was made
possible thanks to the fantastic energy of
the start-ups and all other participants!
Thank you“
David M. Pereira (InPhytro)
"The comments of the jury were very useful to
improve some aspects of the Project,
sometimes they made us think about topics
that we have never thought about. It’s a
recommended event!"

8. Testimonials
João Figueiredo (Ex-libris)
“Startup Pirates Battle has so far been the
best experience I've had regarding
contests(…):
1. The feedback is immediate. In
most innovation/entrepreneurship
contests we have to wait months for
results, and we never know exactly why
we win, and even worse, when we lose
we don’t know what to fix.
2. Prizes doesn’t matter. Your emphasis
on "Glory" and the pleasure of the
competition is undoubtedly the right
motivation that appeals to a new
generation of entrepreneurs.“

9. Feedback
1 - Global Score
(1 - Bad | 5 - Good)
What's your overall evaluation of the event? 4.4
Overall comments about the event:
“Very good energy, great staff, all very well organized!”
“Excellent organization, however I thought there were more teams.”
“Great spirit from the crew. Great teams and pirates. Great food and mood. Not so
very IT friendly investors/judges. Very late start (not the crew's fault, but really
everyone should follow the schedule!(…)”
“I really think that you are one top Pirate Crew and i would love to keep sailing with
you guys! Awesome team!”
“Great event. Lot of opportunities and great staff, always ready to help.”
“Good promotion, good crowd, good projects and good judges. The
conference/speakers were great”
“(…) left early because I don't speak Portuguese. That was very disappointing.”

10. Feedback
2 - What do you think about the competition? Score
(1 - Bad | 5 - Good)
The raffle 4.3
4 rounds 3.9
Pitchs with and without multimedia support 4.1
Timing to pitch 4.4
Information given by the organization 4.3
Total 4.2

11. Feedback
Comments about the competiton:
“Overall I think it went very well, I only have two points to note: In future
editions would be good that the judges did not change in each one of
the rounds (…) and having Pitches with and without media is very positive
(…)”
"Due to the number of startups in the in the competition, the two initial
rounds could be merged.”
“I was expecting a true battle startup 1 vs startup 2 on stage...pointing out
flaws on each others projects”
“Guidelines should be respected by all startups, besides that the
competition model is great and a good example what you should do again in
future.”

12. Feedback
3 - What's your opinion about the conference? Score
(1 - Bad | 5 - Good)
Speaker Ricardo Diniz 4.9
Speaker Vitor Dinis 3.6
Speaker Diamantino Costa 4.0
Speaker Alex Barrera 4.8
Information given by the organization 4.4
Duration 4.3
Total 4.3

13. Feedback
Comments about the conference:
“In my opinion it was organized very well, not too long, not to short, enough
information given and all the presenters were good and motivated me a lot
to find and follow my passion!! You did a very good job organizers!”
“Ricardo Diniz and Alex Barrera were phenomenal (…)”
“Very good choice of speakers, the best ones were Ricardo Diniz and Alex
Barrera”

14. Feedback
4 - What do you think about the logistics of the event? Score
(1 - Bad | 5 - Good)
The overall venue 4.4
The Arenas 4.4
The conferecence room 4.6
Information given by the organization 4.5
Total 4.5
Comments about the venue:
“Everything was very well organized!”
“The food and the service (breaks) was excellent. As for the rest, i already answered
in the first question. Top Crew actually!”

15. Speakers
Ricardo Diniz
A Portuguese sailor, Ricardo Diniz has travelled
the world as a sailor and young entrepreneur.
Co-Founder and President of the Portugal Ocean
Race, Ricardo is on a mission to create “… the
world’s leading around the world yacht race as
the ultimate way to communicate Portugal’s
incredible maritime and business potential to
the world”
Vitor Dinis
Vitor is a co-founder Pathena Partner and
Pathena’s CFO. He serves as a Non-Executive
Board Member of one of Pathena’s portfolio
companies. In 2002 he joined Deloitte as a
Manager. In 2003 he assumed the position of
CFO at Enabler. In 2006 Enabler was acquired by
Wipro Technologies, Vitor took the role of Senior
Manager of Internal Audit & Risk Management
of Wipro’s European Geography.

16. Speakers
Diamantino Costa
As a member of the Board of Directors at Critical
Ventures, Diamantino Costa brings a wealth of
knowledge and experience in both business and
software development. He is the co-founder and
Executive Vice-President of Critical Software SA
and serves on the Board of its subsidiary in the
UK, Critical Software Technologies Limited.
Alex Barrera
He’s currently CEO and Founder of Press42.com,
a site that wants to bring startups to the right
bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and
curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup
incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at
Gamma Rebels, Startupbootcamp Europe,
Springboard or Ideas Inc (Singapore), partner at
Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid
Ambassador and Startup Digest Madrid curator.

17. Photos and Videos
All the photos are available on flickr.
Some of the recorded videos during the event are already
published. They are available on vimeo.

18. Media Coverage:
http://jpn.icicom.up.pt/2011/11/18/startup_pirates_battle_batalhas_de_empreendedorismo_chegam_ao_por
to.html
http://coworklab.net/startup-pirates-battle-porto/
http://uptec.up.pt/evento/startup-pirates-battle-nomeia-melhor-startup-pirata-da-europa
https://www.ipn.pt/si/event/dataEvent.do;jsessionid=E6962B07B895BE3E26D9328E0C0B68C4?elementId=990
&s=1
http://sigarra.up.pt/up/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?P_NR=12025&P_amo_id=2153
http://blog.how-to-web.net/2011/11/startup-pirates-battle/
http://www.pioniergarage.de/2011/news/startup-pirates-battle-in-porto/
http://feedthereader.com/2011/10/the-glory-is-upon-you-its-battle-time/
http://blog.podio.com/2011/10/10/podio-and-startup-pirates/
http://startupreport.com/content/one-week-left-until-startup-pirates-battle-porto-portugal-nov-19th-
startupreportcom
http://spetodpau.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/spetodpau0-battle-startup-pirates-2/
http://www.seedfinance.de/2011/11/02/startup-pirates-battle-interessante-grunderveranstaltung-mit-
urlaubsfaktor-portugal/
http://startupdigest.com/2011/11/15/madrid-startup-events-19/
http://startupdigest.com/2011/11/21/madrid-startup-events-20/

19. Sponsors & Partners
Sponsors Partners Media Partners

20. Global Sponsors

21. Startup Pirates is an
entrepreneurship Movement
We promote entrepreneurship among young people, by
organizing events and providing networking opportunities.

22. Thank you all!
Do you want to talk?
Please reach us at battle@startuppirates.org
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