{"id":646536,"date":"2024-12-11T15:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/where-do-startups-come-from-ideas-and-entrepreneurs-of-course\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:50:15","slug":"where-do-startups-come-from-ideas-and-entrepreneurs-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/where-do-startups-come-from-ideas-and-entrepreneurs-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"#Where do startups come from? Ideas and entrepreneurs, of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d77621587f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d77621587f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/where-do-startups-come-from-ideas-and-entrepreneurs-of-course\/#Next_generation_of_innovation\" >Next generation of innovation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/where-do-startups-come-from-ideas-and-entrepreneurs-of-course\/#Building_something_bigger_than_oneself\" >Building something bigger than oneself<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/where-do-startups-come-from-ideas-and-entrepreneurs-of-course\/#Dutch_finalist_looking_for_the_%E2%80%98positive_side_of_tech\" >Dutch finalist looking for the \u2018positive side of tech\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-main-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At TNW, we are all about supporting and elevating startups and entrepreneurs who are doing epic stuff with tech. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Red Bull reached out to talk about their innovation competition, my first thought was what on Earth do we have in common with an energy drink company that has people jumping off cliffs and surfing really large waves? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from fuelling \u2014 in different ways \u2014 founders and developers across the world, of course. (Although, I guess, building a company could be considered an extreme sport.)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Next_generation_of_innovation\"><\/span>Next generation of innovation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turns out, when it comes to supporting young minds that could change the world with their ideas \u2014 quite a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Red Bull Basement is the beverage giant\u2019s recurring innovation competition that, in the company\u2019s words, \u201cempowers the next generation of innovators to develop and launch outstanding ideas and disrupt today\u2019s status quo.\u201d The 2024 edition took place across 39 countries, and received over 110,000 submissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inarticle-wrapper latest channel-cta hs-embed-tnw\">\n<div id=\"hs-embed-tnw\" class=\"channel-cta-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"channel-cta-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tnw.events\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tnw.events\/hardfork-2018\/uploads\/visuals\/tnw-newsletter.png\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"channel-cta-input\">\n<p class=\"channel-cta-title\">The \ud83d\udc9c of EU tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"channel-cta-tagline\">The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol&#8217; founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It&#8217;s free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The local winners were all flown out to Tokyo for a global final across three days over the past week. They got to take part in workshops on business modelling, utilising AI as a founder, creating a successful pitch, forming strategic partnerships, brand development, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> relations, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411532 js-lazy\" alt=\"Picture of Sophia Lick pitching her MindLeague startup idea on the Red Bull Basement stage in Tokyo\" width=\"1640\" height=\"936\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2024\/12\/Germany-pitch.png\"\/><figcaption>Sophia Lick from Germany built an <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a> to help athletes with their mental training. Credit: Suguru Saito \/ Red Bull Content Pool<\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411532\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2024\/12\/Germany-pitch.png\" alt=\"Picture of Sophia Lick pitching her MindLeague startup idea on the Red Bull Basement stage in Tokyo\" width=\"1640\" height=\"936\" srcset=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The top 10 got to pitch their ideas to the panel of global judges \u2014 and an auditorium of a few hundred people \u2014 on the 45th floor, in front of a backdrop of Tokyo lit up at night. The prize for the global winner was an all-expenses-paid three-week <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to San Francisco to be mentored by Silicon Valley-based Plug and Play VC.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Building_something_bigger_than_oneself\"><\/span>Building something bigger than oneself<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of the appeal for us as a media organisation was of course access to the judges, including Head of Microsoft for Startups Hans Yang, Plug and Play early-stage investor Letizia Royo-Villanova, and digital economy business mentor Jun Yuh, to pick their brains on how they identify winning startups and exceptional founders (and I did, all of which will follow in another article). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, what really moved me was the ingenuity, drive, and enthusiasm of the next generation of entrepreneurs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ideas included a bone conduction device to help people with Parkinson\u2019s walk more securely built by Cambridge student Jonathan Fisher, whose father suffers from the disease. \u201cI figured, if something is important enough, you should try, even if the odds are against you, because you never know what will happen,\u201d Fisher told TNW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another device built by Stanford students in the US wants to give the visually impaired their sight back. There were also water-saving AI-supported gadgets from Greece and Egypt, wild-fire warning systems from South Africa, AI tools to help students connect with mentors and scholarship opportunities from Ireland and Spain or democratise access to high-level sports coaching from Belgium. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other innovations included early illness detection from Kosovo, brain fitness tracking from the Czech Republic, and an athlete mental training app from Germany \u2014 just to name a few.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411531 js-lazy\" alt=\"The winner of Red Bull Basement surrounded by the panel of judges and holding his trophy\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1093\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2024\/12\/JH_rbbasement_20241205_9803.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Soi Gamayon beat over 110,000 submitted innovations to become the Red Bull Basement 2024 global winner with AgriConnect. Credit: Jason Hayako \/ Red Bull Content Pool<\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411531\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2024\/12\/JH_rbbasement_20241205_9803.jpg\" alt=\"The winner of Red Bull Basement surrounded by the panel of judges and holding his trophy\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1093\" srcset=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The winner of the global final was Soi Gamayon from the Philippines with his AgriConnect startup. The AI-powered app, inspired by watching his uncle\u2019s struggle farming rice, allows farmers to monitor their crops, build resilience, and increase their yield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy purpose is really to build something bigger than myself,\u201d said Gamayon. \u201cI\u2019m doing this for Filipino farmers. This wasn\u2019t just about competing or winning. It\u2019s about sharing moments and memories with people who are like-minded. I share this with all the other teams who are here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dutch_finalist_looking_for_the_%E2%80%98positive_side_of_tech\"><\/span>Dutch finalist looking for the \u2018positive side of tech\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dutch finalist, fresh out of graduate studies in Strategic Management at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, was Bram van Peursem, with an app called Hubster. He made it all the way to the top 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on his own experience of losing hours of precious time to mindless social media scrolling while managing his own schedule as a student, Van Peursem designed Hubster to help people transform their phone usage from a time sink into motivation to act on the things they hope to achieve in life. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hubster, still under development, will let you enter the interests and ambitions that are currently most important to you. Van Peursem gives the examples of running a marathon, understanding more about tech stocks, and learning German. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you embark on a scrolling session that will surely end half an hour later with the yucky feeling of \u201cbut I was only going to check\u2026\u201d the app will instead prompt you with notifications such as \u201cIt\u2019s currently great weather for a 5k recovery run,\u201d \u201cAMD just announced a chip update, read more about it here\u201d and link to an article, or \u201cNutzen sie ihre zeit so optimal?\u201d with your language learning app of choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411535 js-lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1093\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2024\/12\/JH_rbbasement_20241205_6628-1.jpg\"\/><figcaption>The Netherlands\u2019 Bram van Peursem wants his app to make people use tech for good in their lives. Credit: Jason Hayako \/ Red Bull Content Pool<\/figcaption><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1411535\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2024\/12\/JH_rbbasement_20241205_6628-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1093\" srcset=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is really focused on making tech positive,\u201d van Peursem told TNW. \u201cBecause I think we often forget that our phone is a tool which has all the information in the world, very accessible in your pocket, but nobody uses it like that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The desire to build something has been there from the start. \u201cI have always wanted to be a founder,\u201d van Peursem, both of whose parents are entrepreneurs, says. \u201cI\u2019ve always had these ideas but I never really acted on them. And that was also the thing I was most scared about \u2014 I want to be an entrepreneur, but what if I never act on it? So I\u2019m really grateful to Red Bull and Microsoft for this opportunity [to make the idea concrete].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personally, I always feel honoured to tell the stories of people who have ideas and work hard to bring them to reality, striving to impact the world in positive ways. Us journalists only observe and write about it \u2014 entrepreneurs are the ones actually building stuff. Mostly just fuelled by pure drive and passion, but sometimes \u2014 like when running a startup bootcamp marathon \u2014 by copious amounts of caffeine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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