Startup Stay is all about helping entrepreneurs to meet face to face worldwide. We are currently supporting many cool projects (facilitating connections and accommodation with local Startup Stay members) such as Startup World (Led by Hermione Way from The Next Web) and TechBritain.
Recently, we’ve also partnered with Shoestring Media, one of Australia’s largest startup/entrepreneur focused websites, to work on “Leeap”, our most ambitious project so far:
Just three days after our soft launch on June 12th, Uldis Leiterts, an entrepreneur from Riga and co-founder of Infogr.am (make your own infographics), found a local entrepreneur to stay with in London using Startup Stay.
A couple of days after sending a few “Request-to-Stay” messages, Uldis (left) got a positive reply from Guy Armitage: a Swiss entrepreneur based in London, founder of Zealous Co (Promotes artists & allows them to collaborate online).
Uldis’ startup was on of the winners of the TechAllStars competition and received a ticket to attend LeWeb in London with all expenses covered.
Even though Uldis could have easily stayed at a 5-Star hotel, he looked, instead, for a way to maximise his networking during those days in London and meet other entrepreneurs.
Guy hosted Uldis for three nights and both had a fantastic experience!
This week, we’d like you to meet another entrepreneur, and early Startup Stay member: Wiktor Schmidt, a Polish developer based in Dublin, Ireland and co-founder of NetGuru.
He reached out to us on Twitter back in February since he was about to head over to the US to attend SXSW and also visit San Francisco.
Startup Stay is launching in May 2012, so we had to do a bit of manual work to accommodate Wiktor.
We sent out a few emails to several entrepreneurs in San Fran and, not only found a host for him, but also other folks in startups willing to hook up for a drink and some quality networking. (more…)
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