This summer Red Sky is organizing Global Startup Challenge 2010, a startup event starting July 1st and ending August 31st. Apply before June 16th! Project teams can include up to 3 people. Selected teams will be invited to Szczecin.

We’re inviting people from Poland and Europe to take part in a unique project!
It doesn’t matter if you live in Szczecin, Warsaw or Berlin!
It doesn’t matter if you only have an idea or a working internet project!
We welcome everyone ready to expend 2 vacation months for hard work.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a student, you just turned 18 or you’re long past thirty.
The reward may be unique – success in the global Internet!

Red Sky focuses on Internet related projects aimed at the global market and they will have specialists helping participants throughout the two months.

The most interesting projects will receive up to 200,000 euros in seed capital through the Buisness Angels’ Network AMBER, and the Starter Capital Fund Pomeranus Seed.

There are Startup Weekends being organized in Stockholm, Lund, Oslo and Copenhagen in April.

Startup Weekend is a 54 hour startup event that provides networking, resources and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Get connected with local developers, innovators and entrepreneurs. Build Community. Start Companies. No Talk. All Action.

Stockholm, April 16 - 18, 2010
http://stockholm.startupweekend.org

Lund, April 9 - 11, 2010
http://lund.startupweekend.org

Oslo, April 9 - 11, 2010
http://oslo.startupweekend.org

Copenhagen, April 9 - 11, 2010
http://copenhagen.startupweekend.org

As a previous participant and organizer of similar events (Startup Sweden) I can tell you it’s a lot of fun, I promise!

Startup Sweden Göteborg 2008

I came back yesterday night from my trip to Göteborg where I enjoyed Startup Sweden #2 and Entreprenörsdagen.

Thank you, Ola, Daniel, Jonas and Pepé who made Startup Sweden Göteborg happen!

The winner of Startup Sweden was the team PMkin, a service that helps you track all the communication on a group project or task through your favorite communication tool (email, live messenger, etc.)

The team, consisting of 7 people, will continue working on the project in their spare time.

It’s good to have friends. And I seem to have a lot of them. Mattias Swenson of Bloggkoll.com and Swedish Startups helped me publish an info splash about Startup Sweden Göteborg 2008. Joop Dorresteijn of OpenCoffee Jönköping and JoopDorresteijn.com gave me permission to post about the event on OpenCoffee.se

Joop is also a Contributing Editor over at The Next Web. A talented one.

Thanks to Ola Rynge (Project manager for Göteborg 2008), Startup Sweden has also been featured in Drivhuset’s newsletter that has been sent out to over 3000 subscribers.

It’s time to apply for participation in Startup Sweden Göteborg 2008. The event will be held October 17-20.

It will be a slightly modified version of the event with 4 competing teams. The winning team will be presented at the event Entreprenörsdagen 2008 in Göteborg.

Apply now!