Author: Alicia Enenkel

SUMMERPARTY 2019 – WILD WILD WERK1 – FROM FACE PAINTING TO FLAMETHROWERS

SUMMERPARTY 2019 – WILD WILD WERK1 – FROM FACE PAINTING TO FLAMETHROWERS

Two big celebrations have now firmly established themselves in the WERK1 calendar: The Christmas party at the end of the year is always a chance to pause for a moment, to review the year and to celebrate what we have achieved together. On the other hand, the summer party is rather the gathering of the entire community: We get to know each other better, friends, family, alumni, mentors and many others from the WERK1 environment come together and we start the second half of the year. On Thursday, July 11th, the time had come again. Under the motto WILD WILD WERK1, we invited almost 200 visitors from WERK1 to start a big summer party.

START FOR FUTURE STARTUP-FOUNDERS WITH CHILD MAKE-UP – THEN IT BECAME “WILD”.

The youngest start at 16 o’clock. Thanks to the great help of our WERK1-Startup Artmasters, the children and later the adults were dressed up for the rest of the evening. Short time later, in the early evening all cowboys and -girls could prove themselves at Bull Riding – the winner got a ride for two in the Ferris wheel High Sky here at the factory quarter with more than one minute later in the evening. At exactly 6 p.m. Sheriff & Managing Director Florian Mann entered the bar: After a few words of welcome the catering was opened and all guests were prepared for the rest of the evening with burgers, hot dogs or baked potatoes. At 9 p.m. the DJ rang in the loud part of the evening in the WERK1 Café and kept the mood going until the end.

A STAGE FOR REVELLERS

Business development in a different way: Vanessa on the road as a fire devil

Startup’ler can not only work late into the night, also with the celebration some do not go one minute too early home. So it became a long night together with the WERK1 team and many guests from the community and together we start now into the second half of the year, in which surely still many further success stories wait for us all.

LATER IN THE EVENING IT GOT “HOT”.

In the meantime, there was a touch of Silicon Valley at the event: a flamethrower from “The Boring Company”, founded by Elon Musk, found his way to the guests thanks to our residents from Curiosity.ai and provided spectacular pictures – not a trace of “boring”.

July 25, 2019 Alicia EnenkelAllgemein

Hubert Aiwanger, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs with Startup Teens at WERK1

Hubert Aiwanger, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs with Startup Teens at WERK1

On 9 May 2019, WERK1 hosted the startup teens. More than 100 teenagers followed an exciting talk with startup entrepreneurs from TheSimpleClub and Inveox, our WERK1 managing director Dr. Florian Mann and this year’s guest of honour, farmer and Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs Hubert Aiwanger.

Startup-Coaching for Teens

Our managing director Dr. Florian Mann opened the event: “He is always looking forward to welcoming the startup teens to WERK1 and to supporting young people in making the dream of their own startup come true. When it came to the question of who wanted to start a company in the future, the fingers leapt up – the best prerequisite for a great evening!

Rubin Lind, winner of the Startup Teens Challenge and founder of “Skills4School”, led the evening. In a panel discussion, the entrepreneurs introduced themselves and talked about how to master the path from the idea to the foundation. The most important thing is to stand behind the ideas and always stay on the ball, even when it comes downhill, motivated the experts. If you have the wish to achieve something, nothing stands in the way of implementing the idea. The entrepreneurs also gave the young people the idea to inform themselves on the Internet and to build up a reach and community via the social media and to perceive events such as the Startup-Coaching programs and events of Startup Teens.

“Startup initiatives are our future”

Hubert Aiwanger appealed to the pupils to take more risks and to realise themselves. He spoke of today’s “affluent society” where it is important to keep the founder thinking on going. The Free State of Bavaria stands behind start-ups and young entrepreneurs. The Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs referred to the 7 new digital business incubators, which provide young entrepreneurs with support for their own start-up projects. He assured “We want to tackle” and thus encouraged the young people to realize their ideas.

Afterwards, the young people were allowed to ask questions to the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs and the start-up entrepreneurs themselves. In addition to the general entrepreneurial context, questions about the current school system also arose. The pupils would like to learn more about founding and the employer side at school and not only to be taught the employee side. Mr. Aiwanger confirmed the pupils’ point of view and was open to suggestions as to how these contents could be better communicated in the future.

The future young entrepreneurs had their goal of their own startup clearly in mind and turned to the startup experts on stage. How long does it take to set up a startup? And how do I build a network? These and many other questions were answered in detail until the end of the event.

Afterwards, the students had time over drinks and snacks to talk personally to their entrepreneurial role models as well as to network with each other. We are delighted that WERK1 was once again able to host this great event!

May 14, 2019 Alicia EnenkelAllgemein, Event Stories, Events, WERK1 Stories