Shout’Em has been chosen one of three winners of Mini Seedcamp Ljubljana, along with Viidea and Yasmo Live. Seedcamp Ljubljana included 20 of the best early stage startups from the region (Slovenia, Crotia, Serbia, Romania,…). Representing Shout’Em at the event were Saša, our lead developer and COO; Viktor, our CEO who presented Shout’Em and myself.

Seedcamp Ljubljana was Superb

As Viktor has already pointed out, Mini Seedcamp Ljubljana has been the best startup event we’ve participated so far. Everyone was really friendly and willing to help, including the investors. The recession has hit the investment scene pretty hard, and the focus on business-2-business solutions has increased dramatically. Thankfully, with projects such as the Microsoft WinDays and Horsetweet networks, Shout’Em can offer a b2b business proposition.

It’s news, right?

Mike Butcher of Techcrunch - Photo by Marinshe

Alongside the startup presentations that included our friends from LongURL, Mike Butcher of Techcrunch gave a talk on how startups should approach journalists and bloggers. When to get a PR firm, what’s news and why you should keep in mind that media people are, in the end, people as well. One of the best pieces of advice was that you should keep pitching the media with that you’re doing, because it’s people like Mike who decide what’s newsworthy, not us.

Seedcamp Ljubljana was awesome and Ljubljana was absolutely beautiful. We’d like to thank the Seedcamp team, with Resma Sohoni as the lead, for a great experience. This event wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for our good friends at Zemanta (Andraž, Aleš, Gašper, Jure… You know we love you guys!), so we thank them as well. To our users, both at Seedcamp and everywhere around the world, thanks for the support!