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#GEWCy


Game: Recognize the entrepreneur


What exactly is CEL?


Step 1: Entrepreneurial Awareness

Connect. Collaborate. Create.

The belief: Cyprus has talent

The task: Connect talent at the grassroot level, build synergies

The goal: Facilitate a startup creation process.


Meetups


1st Hackathon in Cyprus

80 Participants

15 Projects

4 Winners


The biggest technology & startup happening in Cyprus

5 Days, 3 Events, 2 Networking parties

8 Judges, 7 Awards

14 International Speakers

400+ Participants (Aged 10 - 60)

hack{cyprus} 2013


Pink Edition


a growing network in 5 countries


an open platform


Step 2: Time for action

An entrepreneurial ecosystem begins to manifest in 2 years

Successful Cypriot startups are on the rise (Avocarrot, Streethub, Teach’n’Go, Pollfish, Funifi and so forth.)

Right time to back these efforts with capital and infrastructure

Partnerships CEL - CYBAN


Technical concepts 101 (crash course)

Angel investor - An investor who provides financial backing for small startups or entrepreneurs.

Venture Capitalist - An investor who provides capital to startup ventures that wish to expand without public funding


Bootstrapping - Using personal finance or operating revenues of the new company

Crowd-funding - Small amounts of capital from a large number of individuals to finance a new business venture

Seed-funding - Initial capital used to start a business (e.g.: Bootstrap, AI etc)

Angel-investment - Investment is on average around €50,000 and 2.5x multiple

Venture-Capital - Larger scale of private investment - Round A is on av. €1.5 m

IPOs - Initial Public Offering to raise public funding (listed on the stock exchange)


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