Busy times for Getyoo, soon to be released !
The last couple of months have been very busy for Getyoo. Soon, we’ll be releasing our platform to the public and our team is working day and night to get everything ready for the release date that will be announced shortly. We’re hot as “une baraque à frites” as we say in Belgium! (a kind of small trailer car selling Belgian Fries that look like this)
In addition to the hard work in our offices, we’ve also been present on many events. After WIF Belgium on the 5th of March, the belgian webjam competition of the Webdesign International Festival in Limoges, we went to Barcelona to attend the Mobile Premier Awards as we had been nominated for an Award in Innovation. We had won the MobileMonday Belgian chapter for most innovative startup with 73 % of the votes. Last week we spent the whole week at CeBIT 2010 in Germany, were we had a stand (you can read an article about it below).
Finally, yesterday we were at the Plugg Conference 2010 to participate to the Plugg Start Up Rally. Getyoo had been selected as one of the 20 finalist elected out of a total of 116 companies.
Each of the 20 participants to the competition had to make a 2 minutes elevator pitch in order to be selected as one of the 3 finalists who would each have a 10 minutes pitch to convince the jury and the audience. Here’s a link to watch Geoffroy Simon’s, Getyoo COO and Co-founder, elevator pitch. (start at 5min10 if you want to get directly to Geoffroy’s pitch). We didn’t make it to the final but were very close. It was a real pleasure for us to be there. We’ve met many interesting people and discovered a lot of very creative and innovative start ups.
The winner of the Plugg 2010 edition is Fits.me, a virtual fitting room for online clothing retailers. They use robotic mannequins to mimic the shape and size of the customer and show the customer photos of the mannequin wearing different sizes of clothing.
The other 2 finalists were Distimo, an app store analytics tool for mobile developers and Inbox 2, a message management desktop client for Windows. Raz War got the Audience Award for their very unusual and creative way of approaching the razor market. They sell their razors through a website as a SaaS solution - Shaving as a Service ;)
As you can see, we’ve been doing quite a lot recently and it’s just starting. We still have many events to come such as The Salon Entreprendre Ondernemen in Brussels on the 31st of March and 1st of April. You can already read an article in Bizz Magazine (French) concerning Getyoo’s presence at Salon Entreprendre. Another event will be the EBS - European Business Summit on the 30ths of June and 1st of July. More info to come on those two events.
We will also soon announce the public release, so stay tuned!
Back from CeBIT 2010 - Germany makes it big!
We’re back from CeBIT in Hanover, Germany where Getyoo had a booth in the Software in Brussels stand. This was made possible thanks to the Brussels Enterprise Agency and Brussels Export. CeBIT is the digital sector’s most important trade fair. 4,157 companies from 68 countries exhibited in 500000 m2 of exhibition space at CeBIT 2010 and attracted more than 300.000 visitors. For 5 days from the 2nd until the 6th of March, ICT professionals presented their products and services. It was the perfect place to discuss, collaborate, exchange and conclude partnerships with other companies or research centres.
This year’s theme “Connected Worlds” focused on business IT, green IT, health, security, banking and finance, … Companies too recognize the importance of web 2.0 technologies: customers, suppliers and employees interact with each other in communities. Technical and organizational boundaries have to be overcome in order to reach this interconnectedness.
The stand Software in Brussels was located in hall 6, it comprised in 13 companies active in the Software sector. To get to hall 6 every morning, we had to go through Halls 2, 3, 4 and 5 so the scooters that we had brought helped us a lot!
Our stand attracted a lot of visitors all curious about our new and innovative concept. We made a lot of interesting contacts at our stand and also thanks to the Future Match brokerage event. Future Match is a service that enables companies, universities and research institutes in the ICT sector to establish new cross-border contacts for future collaboration, e.g. for product development, research & development, joint ventures, manufacturing, marketing and/or licensing agreements. People apply to the online service and have access to a database with description of participating companies in order to arrange meetings in advance for the CeBIT.
On Wednesday we had a visit from Mr. Benoît Cerexhe, Brussels’ minister of Economy, Employment and Scientific Research. We had a very pleasant time meeting him and a great lunch in the tower restaurant with a spectacular, panoramic view. Check out this nice picture of Marie and Geoffroy from Getyoo with the minister.
Apart from that, we’ve also discovered the German food with its king size plates and beers. They give you giant sausages that are the size of a normal plate, so obviously they need to double the size of the plates they provide in restaurants ! Also, we had a great octoberfest-like experience at the CeBIT Munich Hall. A huge place with live music and very long tables, on which people drink giant beers served by Bavarian women who can carry ten of those huge glasses at a time. It was good fun!
To conclude, CeBIT was an amazing experience, definitely worth it. In Germany, they do everything in big, we had never seen such a big exhibition space and such huge plates of food. That was something to be seen! Next year, we’ll come back for sure!
Getyoo Booth at #CeBIT 2010 in the Software in Brussels Stand.
T-mobile awesome fountain at CeBIT 2010 Webciety in Hall 6 where our Getyoo booth in Software in Brussels Stand was also located. Amazing isn’t it?
