Welcome to our Weekly Recap #19. If you’d like to get more updates and cool startup stuff from us follow our Twitter feed @StartupHighway.
In these Weekly Recaps, I outline our teams’ progress, milestones and upcoming plans. So you can track, learn from them or give an advice.
Place I Live is almost done with SEO. Andrius (co-founder) told me currently they're pitching some of StartupHighway Angel Investors and mentors to join their team. Let’s see how it goes.
Dragdis yesterday officially announced about the launch of the new features: "Link Snapshot" and "Share Folder". Also they started - blog.dragdis.com.
Domas (co-founder) said that today they’re taking what they have earned at LOGIN 2013 for being “The Best Product Web of the Year”. So the prize for the whole weekend is:
And here’s what Daugilas (co-founder of withEvent.com) was working on recently :)
Daugilas co-founder of withEvent.com: How Do You Work?
What apps/ software can't you live without?
On my phone I mostly use Gmail (of course), GMaps, WhatsApp, MobileVoip (calling abroad), Droid Wallet, Sleep as Android (to wake up fresh), Twitter, RunKeeper, CheckMyTrip (when travelling).
On my PC every day I use keePass (to store hundreds of passwords securely), of course chrome and FireFox (w/ millions of tabs), Aptana Studio + Git client (to code stuff) in addition to this Photoshop, and many other services.
How your workplace looks like? (Photo above)
I have three workplaces, the office, my home and cafes.
What’s your favorite to-do list manager?
My real paper notebook + “Do It Tomorrow” (app)
What do you listen while you are working?
Lately I listen to Rodriguez, Macklemore and Major Lazer. My classical work music is LTJ Bukem and some artists who play Jazz and Acid Jazz.
What can you do better than others?
I am always looking for the people who can do better than me – that’s the fastest way of learning.
What is it you like most about your colleagues?
I like everything about them! :)
I would kill to (see) _____________
my startup becoming a successful company.
What’s your sleeping routine?
What is the sleeping routine?
What's the best advice you've ever received?
Recent piece of advice I got from Rokas T.: When you are stuck and out of solutions – go talk to people, they probably have a solution for you.
Startup Nitro Academy kicks off 23 May! We invite all of you to sit at a round table once again and have a good time while talking about business and startups life.
Below you see a schedule of visiting guest mentors. The list is being constantly updated as the events continue till July and we're planning to intorduce you a bunch of brilliant mentors/ business professionals. Thus fellow, join us and share on Facebook.
23 May
Frank M. Saviane is Founder & CEO of Fast Forward Advisors, an international consulting firm focused on helping technology startups, SMEs and Blue Chips in the areas of strategy, innovation, intellectual property and internationalization.
Ken Globerman has more than 15 years of combined media advertising and private equity experience – specializing in mature startups to small-to-midsize enterprises operating in high growth sectors such as technology services, media advertising and energy.
Welcome to our Weekly Recap #18. If you’d like to get more updates from us follow our Twitter feed @StartupHighway.
In these blog post, I outline things that our startups are working on and other startup related stuff that pops up during a week.
A shot from yesterday: Martynas (Chief Portfolio Manager), and withEvent.com team - Daugilas and Vytaute. If you don't know Martynas, he's a tough guy who assigns homework for our teams, makes them sweat and kicks their asses till the cash flow gets positive.
Recently Sellfy launched Google analytics integration allowing sellers to track their customers and sales better. And it comes with Google Analytics e-commerce support as well. Currently they are working on product page redesign that will bring users new features (like pay what you want model) and also will be more clean and simple.
dragdis releases two features that they wanted to be on Dragdis from day one, but they were pushed aside because they weren’t top priority back then - this is what dragdis startup says on their FB fan page.
So, features are:
Link Snapshot (Dragdis will automatically take a screenshot of a link you dragged and display it in a thumbnail on Dragdis.com)
Share folder (Users will be able to share any of their folders via a link)
withEvent.com partners with granimedia.ru – media and communications conference in Kaliningrad. One more awesome mobile application is on the way. It seems that withEvent.com is spinning off – during past three months they got four clients and coming more.
Place I Live guys quite unsocial these days… Their schedule is: It'll be done when it's done! :) Anyway, SEO is their top priority right now.
Morning shot: today's the firts interview with 3rd batch applicants
It has been three weeks since we started interviews and we‘re thrilled meeting you all. Our applicant pool of nearly 300 companies came from 20 countries and 4 continents except South America, Antarctica and Australia.
We received applications from countries as diverse as Ghana and Japan. A number of them came from South Korea, India and U.S. Looking into Asia and Central Europe map, startups from Turkey, Croatia, Hungary, Czech Republic and Romania showed an interested in Lithuanian accelerator. Also applicants from UK, Germany, Poland, Belarus, Denmark, Finland, Italy and of course our Baltic neighbors, Latvians and Estonians, applied to StartupHighway.
Happy to see Lithuanian fellows choosing StartupHighway as well.
It’s quite surprising as we’re more focused on Europe than global reach. Anyway it’s good to see such diversity and we’re seriously considering taking teams in outside EU. That could be a start for something new!
So, rock star startups, dream big and see you soon!
Startup Nitro Academy kicks off 23 May! The first guest mentor is coming from Italy - Frank Manuel Saviane. Check the upcoming events: 
