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First Tuesday offers first step for new businesses

A group of networking business people aiming to promote enterprise in Austria have scored their first success after the launch of a new monthly meeting that brings entrepreneurs and investors together.

The meeting - called ‘First Tuesday’ because it is held on the first Tuesday of each month -  sees a group of enterprising business men meet to review and discuss new business ideas with a view for long term financial investment. The theme of the meetings is ‘Ideas meet Money’ and they give an opportunity for business innovators and entrepreneurs to meet possible investors.

Organised by Nigel Stonham, founder of ‘First Tuesday Vienna’ and ‘Vienna Hub’, the monthly meetings take place in a variety of informal venues located in the centre of Austria’s capital city Vienna and the aim is to bring together people possessing  good, ground breaking ideas with would-be investors.

The first meeting has already been held and those who were there have said they have already benefitted.

Vienna based entrepreneur Markus Hochholdinger who is launching a software tool called ‘Allsite’ said of the meeting: "I joined the First Tuesday event because I am always looking for contacts who are interested in this kind of product, either because they want it for themselves - potential customers - or because they want to help us to spread the product on the market. Customers, resellers, VCs and business angels are the kind of contacts we are interested in.

"In this respect, the event was helpful. I made the first contact to a VC (Pontis), I met a marketing professional with international experience (Ramin Ramezani) and met some other very interesting people like Deborah Walker with whom I would like to stay in contact."

The meeting on the 5th of November which was held in Café Prückel, was well attended with 39 participants all benefiting from the knowledge, experience and insight of the guest speakers at the event, which inlcuded:

Moderation by:
Nigel Stonham, City Leader, First Tuesday Vienna, www.firsttuesday.com/vienna
Mark Tuttle, CEO and Co-Founder Surlin US,
"The great value of First Tuesday is bringing people of enterprise together on a face to face basis with structure and a modern context."
https://www.xing.com/profile/Mark_Tuttle

Guest Speakers:
Mag. Werner M. Kraus, MMBA Entrenet
"Transforming a business idea into a financially viable and economically healthy new venture."
www.entrenet.at

Christian H. Leeb, Holistic Business Development
"We are working as a team of experts interested in biz ideas with worldwide growth potential empowering ‘startups’  to start-up quickly."
http://holbizdev.blogspot.com

Jürgen Marchart, Managing Director of AVCO
"AVCO, a knowledgeable partner and independent information point for ...
... journalists, entrepreneurs, potential investors, private and public institutions as well as international bodies who are interested in Austria’s Private Equity Industry."
www.avco.at

Helmut Paugger, Dipl.-Ing. - Innovation Consultancy GmbH eSchwechat.at
"eSchwechat.at is the Municipality of Schwechat's Information Society Initiative (2005 to 2009) for building up a communal Information Society with the main-aims of integrating Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a means of supporting every area of life.
www.eSchwechat.at

DI Michael Rauhofer, MAS. INiTS -The Incubator
"INiTS goal is to maximise the quality and success probability of business start-ups and to achieve a permanent increase in the number of academic spin-offs in Austria."
www.inits.at

Bernhard Schmid, Vienna IT Enterprises
"In the last few years, the Vienna Business Agency has initiated a large number of incentive measures designed to strengthen Vienna’s position as an IT industry location."
www.vite.at

The speakers were very well received and gave the group insight in their specific areas. Following the individual presentations guests were able to speak directly to each speaker during a revolving workshop. In separate discussions with each speaker they all strongly supported Nigel Stonham’s thoughts that "more should be done in Vienna, and Austria as a whole, to present good business concepts to those looking for potentially worthwhile, profitable and long term investments."

Stonham is an energetic individual specialising in corporate networking - putting people with creative business concepts in front of senior management, executives or entrepreneurs who are in search of fresh, creative innovation or have the need for specialised services in business management, i.e. marketing, sales, motivational training, business psychology etc. etc. Nigel is the man!

He said:  "Being the founder of First Tuesday Vienna it is my aim to encourage and develop this concept in Vienna, and indeed throughout Austria, in order to help entrepreneurs find money for their ideas, and to connect them to others who can help them succeed. I am one of a number of people interested in helping to stimulate innovation and creativity, as well as entrepreneurship, in Austria, and I plan to do that locally through First Tuesday Vienna, and internationally through the First Tuesday global network."

First Tuesday Vienna is part of a global network of like minded people organising business and networking meetings in other major cities of the world:  Vienna, London, Zurich, Luxembourg and Johannesburg.

For further information on First Tuesday or Vienna Hub contact Nigel Stonham www.firsttuesday.com/vienna
www.viennahub.com

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