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2 What Kind of Startup Conference Starts at 12am?!

Don’t be fooled. We’re not your mentor’s startup conference. RockPaperStartups will not only be awesome - it will be fun as the best rock concert you’ve been to! The program starts a bit later each day so you can sleep in, have breakfast, enjoy the sun and maybe even have an early swim. It also goes on later after which we have not just our own late night afterparties but also awesome concerts provided by our friends at the Republika creative festival, makers of the Share by Night program and the EXIT festival!

3 You Haven’t Seen These Crazy Eastern European Rockstar Startups!

Everyone knows about Rovio and Soundcloud, but how many of you know about the biggest startups in Croatia, Serbia or Bulgaria? Or the maker of the world’s largest football web game, Nordeus, from Serbia? What about the 2 Croatian startups that Dave McClure invested in, Farmeron and WhoAPI? Damn, you need to come to RockPaperStartups and discover the crazy, bootstrapped world of startups east of Berlin!

4 Awesome Food for Your Bootstrapped Belly!

Do you want another damn sandwich or piece of finger food? No you don’t. True startupers have the appetite of a shark and we plan to have you enjoy the best Mediteranian and continental food Croatia and the region can offer!

Beer included

5 Pitch Your Demo Band Startup at Mini Seedcamp Rijeka

In partnership with Seedcamp, Europe’s top startup accelerator according to Techcrunch, we’re organizing Mini Seedcamp Rijeka, the best shot for new startups to pitch in top of the best mentors of the region and Seedcamp’s global mentor network. Also, to network and get some well deserved feedback! The best ones are selected as Seedcamp finalists!

Seedcamp RockPaperStartups

Discover the Selected Seedcamp Startups

6 Get a Pint at Pub Summit Rijeka

In partnership with Europe’s best startup conference, the Dublin Web Summit, we’re organizing the Rijeka Pub Summit! A chance to have a pint with your fellow startupers and more importanly, a chance to submit an application and become a finalist who will pitch in front of over 5,000 attendees at the Web Summit in October!

Dublin Web Summit RockPaperStartups

7 We’re so close you have to come to Rijeka!

Nobody wants to take hours traveling to some forsaken place and then have just 1-2 boats a week to get back to civilization. Rijeka is one of the most connected cities of Southeastern Europe, by car, train, boat or plane - you can even swim to Rijeka, although we don’t recommend it!

• 2 hour drive from Zagreb and Ljubljana
• 5 hours drive from Belgrade and Vienna
• 7 hours drive from Sarajevo
• 1 hour flight from London or Berlin

8 Hackathon

Startups and hacking just goes well together, so be a hacking part of the RockPaperStartups hackathon with some great partners and even more interesting challenges. Develope your idea and hack your project to perfection - as much as you can in 24 hours. Do you have what it takes for this gig? We’ll see, rockstar!

Unfortunately, we had to cancel the hackathon. Oh well, next year! :)

9 So What’s The Plan?

The plan is simple, as your eyes can see:

• July 18th and 19th RockPaperStartups Full Festival Days
• July 20th Chillout Day

More awesome details soon...