Vasiu Madalina
Managing Partner @Grai
Upster
Learn. Network. Grow
COMING SOON. STREAMING LIVE FROM CLUJ-NAPOCA • 17 – 18 NOV • ONLINE
Learn. Network. Grow.
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LEARN
Learn from founders, investors, experts and get actionable insights.
NETWORK
Use the opportunity to chat with startup founders, investors, business and technical experts. Form future partnerships, collaborations and more.
GROW
Get actionable insights and advice from the community, apply them and effectively grow your business.
What is Upster?
Upster Conference is an initiative of Cluj Startups, NGO established in 2012, with the mission to support and facilitate the growth of the startup ecosystem.
Upster is the next step in our efforts to support and help the startup community grow. We provide the means to share knowledge from inside and outside the community and enable startups to get the applicable items that they need in order to grow their product and their business as a whole.
Upster is the means by which startups can connect with the startup community: founders, investors, accelerators, incubators and more.
Conference topics
Product
Validation
Investment
Marketing & Sales
Validation
What’s the most important part of a startup? Idea, money or validation? Some say it’s the idea, but what can you do with an idea that nobody wants to see implemented? Others say it’s the money, but the history shows us that even a failed startup can raise millions (*cough* Quibi). But few mention about importance of validation. Eager to know why?
Product
Do products create the services or the services create the products? Some say that without a product you can’t have a service. Others argue that the service is the one that creates the product. Never thought of that, ha? Do not worry, we’ll have experts that will illuminate us once and for all.
Investment
Investors do not invest in your startups product or service. They invest in you and your team. Yes, they would like to see some traction numbers but that’s not always the case. The easiest part for a startup is to raise money. “Shut up and take my money” is a true statement when the team is right. But be aware that not all money is good. Do you know the difference between “smart money” and “dumb money”?
Marketing and Sales
Why do people love to work in marketing and sales? Because every business needs this kind of services. The best part? These skills can be learned almost for free! Marketing & Sales can either make you the wealthiest man in the world or the poorest man in the world. Choose wisely from who you learn
What people say
“Upster is an excellent opportunity to learn how to start and manage your startup and not to be in those 92% of startups that fail in the first 3 years of existence. (https://www.getautopsy.com/research/top-startup-failure-reasons)"
Dragoș Nicolaescu
Speaker @Upster2020, Angel Investor
"Upster team together with the mentors community knows how to engage people and inspire them to start building things the world really needs. Great work! Keep it up, Upster!”
Vlad Gliga
Speaker @Upster2020, Co-founder & CEO Rubik Hub
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Speakers 2021
Check-out the speakers that will write the Upster Story in 2021.
David Achim
Director @Make IT in Oradea
Francesco Cerruti
Director General Vc Hub Italia
Stefan Koritar
CEO & Partner @ Grai Ventures
Mircea Vadan
Managing Partner Activize.tech
Bogdan Oros
Director of Operations AdButler
Mester Catalin
CEO Voxa
Mihai Guran
VP TechAngels
Vasilica Bob
Head of Product and Design
Alexandru Agatinei
How to Web
Julia Fenart
France Digitale
Vlad Sarca
Serial entrepreneur and investor
Alin Pausan
Founder of Actable100
Vlad Gliga
Co-founder & CEO Rubik Hub
Why join?
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Learn from founders, investors, experts and get actionable insights. Use the opportunity to chat with startup founders, investors, business and technical experts. Form future partnerships, collaborations and more. Get actionable insights and advice from the community, apply them and effectively grow your business.
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