ArcticEvening Tallinn, Estonia – 1.3.2012

We're back to organising ArcticEvenings in 2012! We will start off our events in Tallinn, on the 1st of March. The theme of the event is startup metrics and we have William Wolfram, the founder and CEO of DealDash giving a presentation at the event. We recently interviewed Wolfram on Unfair Advantage about DealDash and their metrics. In the talk he said they're obsessed with metrics and have seen great many ways they can help take the company further.

Program

The event takes place on Thursday, the 1st of March. Doors will open 18.00 and the event will start around 18.30. We will have William Wolfram's presentation starting immediately after a few introductory words, followed by networking and mingling afterwards.

We will have some free drinks available for those who come early, thanks to our sponsors.

William Wolfram
William Wolfram is a consumer internet entrepreneur who believes in prototyping and testing ideas. He is the founder & CEO of DealDash, a profitable e-commerce company with low 8-figures in annual revenue and more than 275,000 shoppers in the US. He started his first company at the age of 13. William is the 2011 winner of the Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Timangi) award in Finland.

Tickets

Please register your ticket using the module below. Tickets are free, but please don't reserve a ticket for "just in case" if you're not sure that you're able to attend. We want to make the event available to as many people as possible and thus it's important all those planning to come, actually do.

Location

ArcticEvening will take place in Technopolis Ülemiste "Zappi House", Lõõtsa 6, Entrance "A" or "D" (see on Google Maps). The house is named by Walter Zapp (1905-2003) – Inventor of the Minox mini-camera. The Zappi house with his glass atrium and spacious bright food-court City Platz is one of Ülemiste City’s most prominent limestone buildings.

Parking

We recommend to use one of two large, big parking lots, which are free. In case you want to park in front of the entrance of Zappi House, there is a parking fee. Select Zone EP35, 1-hour parking fee is 0,64 Euros, the 24-hour pay 5 Euros 10 cents.

Accommodation

Tallinn has a great choice of accommodation available for visitors. If you're coming in on a shoestring budget, we recommend booking a hotel room at Tallinn Express for example. The return boat ride from Helsinki and an accommodation for one night costs under 70 euros. Book yours from TallinkSilja.

Sponsors

Please take a minute to thank our sponsor with your time. They make the events possible and keep it free for participants. If you'd like to sponsor our event, feel free to contact sales@arcticstartup.com.

Technopolis Ülemiste
Technopolis Ülemiste offers modern office space and related services for more than 130 companies. Most of the companies are in the "knowledge based" business. Around 50 companies are working in IT industry. There are also Estonian branches of large international pharmaceutical companies and subsidiaries of many other international companies. Around 2,000 individuals work in the Innovation City on a daily basis.

In October 2010 partnership with Finnish company Technopolis Plc was started. Technopolis Plc is the largest company in Scandinavia in real estate development and business support provisioning for knowledge-intensive industry. Efficient co-operation has been set up with universities, venture capital firms and startups.

Technopolis is offering development services for companies to get started, grow and succeed. The most important task is to bring together innovative growth companies with investors, customers and strategic partners. Technopolis Ülemiste organizes Business Breakfast matchmaking events, annual MoneyTalks® Tallinn event brings Estonian growth seeking startups together with business angels and international venture capital investors and Technopolis Funding Services help your company to get funding more effectively and with better terms.

Startup Wise Guys
Startup Wise Guys is an 3 month accelerator program for early stage companies. There will be blood, there will be tears - tons of mentors pushing out the most of you that you didn't even know was there. The team is most important, as well as each individual giving their max. We provide mentorship, services and up to €15000 seed funding for the chosen applicants. The program is focusing on international mentorship for the companies which should already have a prototype when applying. The focus is on product development, business development and sales. Companies are advised to work closely and get fast feedback from their possible clients to have direct and detailled information on their product, the need and solution they are providing. Startup Wise Guys program will end with 2 Demo Days, the second one in London to give companies more opportunities to network and show themselves.

Garage48 - Media partner
Garage48 is a local marketing partner of ArcticEvening Tallinn. Garage48 organizes weekend hackathons to build ideas into working services or prototypes in just 48 hours. Next Garage48 Tallinn Music event will take place 23-25th of March, sign-up at http://garage48.org/tallinn. Garage48 HUB is a co-working space in central Tallinn for tech community and startups.