On July 26, the second Kazan meeting of startups StartupPoint was held on the iCamp motor ship in Kazan.

The event took place in two stages - meeting and acquaintance, and, in fact, StartupPoint itself.

Morning
First of all, Vitaly, the main organizer, made an introductory speech.

Following him, his companion spoke about government initiatives in the field of support for young entrepreneurs and innovative projects.

Zvorykinsky project -
just drank the budgets of a new state initiative.

Then everyone participated in a fashionable ritual - getting to know each other in the format of speed dating.

Evening
Projects
In the evening, during the main part of StartupPoint, the ship set off for a three-hour walk along the Volga. A total of 6 projects were submitted.
The first thing Vitaly told about the format of the event.

The jury, which gathered from those present during the meeting.
The first project is a business process modeling system designed for a small business.
The second project is my project, an advertising broker.
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The third project is act.com. Video hosting with contextual advertising. For example, the photo shows how one of the project’s founders advertises (contextually) a bottle of whiskey.
The fourth project is a system for visual modeling of legal situations. One of two interested potential investors projects.
The fifth project is a system for analyzing the source code of applications (mainly web applications) for finding errors and vulnerabilities. The second interested investors project.
The sixth project is Internet radio for women. Earning planned for advertising. The woman who presented the project could not entrust the switching of the slides to a stranger and did it herself.

Reports
After discussing the projects, everyone moved to the stern of the ship for fresh air. While the people gathered, the owner of the Belarusian portal tut.by talked about his experience of launching Internet radio. The story was very interesting and, most importantly, more useful than all the speeches that followed.

The representative of Kazan ITshnikov made an opening speech.

After him, a representative of Kazan IT-Park told about a new mega-technology park, which will be opened in Kazan in the autumn.

Then a representative of the Tatarstan Venture Investment Fund made a speech.

The representative of Kazan IT-entrepreneurs told the last about his life: “We make websites, write programs”.

the end
On the boat reigned informal atmosphere.

About half an hour after the end of the event, the ship returned to the Kazan river port.

PS
Pleased with a bag of promotional materials. It turned out the cleanest soap «Gmail», condoms from mail.ru, notebook from WebMoney and bag from Google.Maps.
