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What to Expect at Kingston BETA in 2012
Jan 31st
Fellow Techies,
First, let me take this opportunity to wish you a fulfilling and wealth building 2012, even as we’re already over 30 days into it.
We’re happy to have ended 2011 on a high, with a successful series of bimonthly events with increased attendances, better startup ideas and a super successful tech entrepreneurship conference Caribbean BETA in November. So we’re excited about 2012 and the opportunities to further development of the culture of tech entrepreneurship and the success stories in Jamaica and across the Caribbean.
To that end we will have 5 bimonthly events starting on Thursday February 23rd, 2012 and we will end the year with our annual tech entrepreneurship conference – Caribbean BETA during Global Entrepreneurship Week in November.
This year, at every Kingston BETA event we will have a guest speaker ( local, regional, international), a BETA Pitch Competition which is about discovering the Caribbean’s most promising Tech Startups plus our usual power hours of networking over drinks and nibbles.
Additionally, our sister brand SiliconCaribe.com will be live tweeting every event to the world in addition to getting on
the fly interviews with you, as we move to put a face to the growing community and showcase who’s doing what.
We also welcome our new high energy team of volunteers lead by Kingston BETA event co-producer Dianne Harris who will help produce the events and keep the community connected. Further, starting with our first event, we will be asking you who will be attending Kingston BETA to pay US$5.00 (JA$500) per person per event at the door.
We know you consider Kingston BETA and the community you are part of, to be of great value…we’ve been happily collecting
and sharing the tweets, Facebook comments, emails and personal calls. It is a recognition that Kingston BETA is the platform for startups, entrepreneurs, developers, designers and tech professionals – to learn, be inspired and network.
We are building something significant and we ask that you continue to attend, come to pitch your big ideas, network with some of the smartest minds in the industry and share with others what you experience as together, we grow the Caribbean Tech Startup Scene.
See you at the next Kingston BETA!
Yours sincerely,
Ingrid Riley
Ceo Connectimass, Founder of Kingston BETA
Dianne Harris
Co-producer, Kingston BETA
Kingston BETA – To learn. Be Inspired. To Network
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The Next Kingston BETA is February 23rd, 2012
Jan 25th
Caribbean Startups
Kingston Beta, our bimonthly Event staged in Jamaica, connected to the Caribbean and Diaspora – is a platform for startups, entrepreneurs, developers, designers and tech professionals – to learn, be inspired and network.
It’s become the hub for the movers and shakers in the Jamaican and Caribbean Tech Community. Over 40 events have been held, that 2500 people attended and have seen over 70 Jamaican and Caribbean technology startups pitch their new businesses ideas. We’ve kicked off a tech entrepreneurship movement in Jamaica and growing across the Caribbean.
In 2012, we will have 5 bi-monthly events and end the year with Caribbean BETA- The annual Tech Entrepreneurship Conference. Our year long theme is “Startup Local, Think Global” . Each Kingston BETA event will have a guest speaker (local,regional and global), a BETA Pitch Contest and networking with the smartest minds in the industry.
The next one is Thursday February 23rd, 2012 at our home The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.
Kingston BETA is part of a network of initiatives that includes SiliconCaribe.com, Caribbean BETA, the annual tech conference coming in November, StartupWeekendJamaica, and are all working on the same mission – to drive tech entrepreneurship in the Caribbean. We believe tech entrepreneurship can and will become a major driver of startup businesses, job creation and innovation.
5 Killer Questions for Every Entrepreneur Starting a Business
Jan 9th
by Steve Livingston on March 29, 2010
1. What problem or need will your product or service fulfill and how is this better than what’s currently on offer?
2. How big is the potential market? What’s the potential “open goal”?
3. Do you have the right team? Is it well balanced with a decent mix of experience and raw enthusiasm?
4. How will you dominate your market? e.g. by having proprietary protected know-how that creates a barrier to entry for competitors or can you (quietly) build dominance in a small niche market then blast off from there?
5. Can you deliver it now and if not, how and when?
