The Unreasonable Institute

When Dnamo was in New York at the Feast Conference, they have met another incubator: The Unreasonable Institute. Dnamo was very thrilled to meet this incubator and is looking forward to share thoughts. The Unreasonable Institute is an institute that is very interested in young social entrepreneurs with bold ideas from around the world. They would like to unite the 25 most brilliant entrepreneurs from around the world to attend an intensive 10 week summer institute.

The idea of this institute is to incubate, support and finance the chosen young social entrepreneurs to give their ideas wings. At the summer institute, the young entrepreneurs undergo rigorous and practical training including personal & entrepreneurial skill development. They will also get guidance from mentors. Each Unreasonable Fellow will graduate the Institute with a viable business plan that is purposeful, sustainable, scalable and replicable. The 1st annual summer institute will be held in the summer of 2010 in the city of Boulder, Colorado.

The Feast Conference

The Dnamo team was in New York last week to attend at The Feast Conference. The Feast Conference gathers the world greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating a world-shaking change. The conference presents the most innovative solutions, insights, and best practices as a catalyst toward action.

The main goal of this conference is to first change individuals, industries and ultimately the world. An open exchange of ideas across industries and society is necessary to produce lasting, sustainable, meaningful change. "The Feast" brings together the world's leading creative entrepreneurs, revolutionaries, radicals, doers and thinkers to inspire more action, share best practices, and create valuable connections that will change the world.

Dnamo pictures online!

During the start-up, the Dnamo team tried to capture some important moments on camera. For example the Dnamo team working hard on decorating the temporarily office of Dnamo . They arranged the furniture, chairs, tables, whiteboards, flip overs, beamers, plants, the espressomachine, lights and more.

When the Dnamo team has finished te decoration, the first workshop was given to the entrepreneurs. The pictures of this Kick off are also online. You can find these pictures and other pictures of Enviu events on the Enviu Flickr page.

Opening presentation

Dnamo Incubator

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The Pressure Cooker has started!

One week after the selection, the Pressure Cooker kick off took place. Since that day the the entrepreneurs have been overwhelmed with trainings and workshops. During the 100 days of the Pressure Cooker, the entrepreneurs will receive 10 workshops that are all 'introductory': a first glimpse of the subject that will be given in the future. the entrepreneurs will get to know more about Business System & Organization, Team Management, Legal/IP, Fiscal, Realization & Risks, Pitching, Finance, Subsidies, Sales and Investments.

Oriol Pascual developed a crash course for the entrepreneurs. During this session the entrepreneurs will be introduced in the field of sustainability and entrepreneurship.

The entrepreneurs will also be provided with a lot of coaching. They have meetings with a sustainability coach an ISMA coach. The coaching is to help them to elaborate on their sustainable business concept and develop a strategic plan to successfully promote products to a targeted and identified market.

a picnic with Dnamo

Inspiring, high-level conference, world-class speakers, cutting-edge technology, innovative small and large group networking, unique, cool and friendly, these are the key elements for PICNIC 09. PICNIC is a unique three day festival and an inspiring conference complimented by a set of networking events and hands-on technology experiences for top creatives and innovation professionals in business, technology, new media, entertainment, science and the arts and of course Dnamo could not miss this event.

The festival will take place in Amsterdam from September 23 till September 25. The goal of the festival is to educate and connect people, industries, sectors and disciplines and stimulate creativity, innovation, inspirantion and business. PICNIC is desighned to evoke an emotional reaction through visual and auditory stimuli and surprises.

For more information about PICNIC and tickets for this event go to the website.

Dnamo @ Emerce eDay

This Thursday the 17th we will attend the Emerce eDay event at the Van Nelle Fabriek. There we will join the Incubator Exchange, where 100 representatives of promising incubators, the top of the innovative business and investment world will meet.

Emerce eDay is the yearly Dutch convention for online business and marketing dicision makers. 1500 decision makers in the field of interactive marketing, media an e-business will attend. They are responsible for driving innovation in large Dutch top 500 companies, or smaller fast growing online ventures. New strategies, cases, concepts and technology on e-business, will be delivered by national and international key note speakers.

This year Emerce eDay is celebrating its 5th anniversary. Especially for this celebration, Emerce eDay will also form the backdrop for a special edition of the Incubator Exchange. This event has already had two succesful Dutch editions before and therefor this edition, the Incubator Exchange will go international.

For more information go to the website.