AgryCult

Two weeks ago I went to Paris to participate to the Seedcamp event, arguably the most authoritative and networked micro seed fund programme to jumpstart the entrepreneurial community in Europe.
Agrycult was the first Italian team (together with the awesome teams of VisualSport and Mobnotes, also present in Paris) to be selected for the Seedcamp EVER (since 2007, Seedcamp reviews hundreds if not thousands of applications each year).
Of course we were proud of it, but what about the event? Was it worth attending it?
To explain my impression about it without annoying you too much, I’ll ask you to try, for a moment, to put yourself in my shoes.
Imagine you are an etrepreneur, doing for the first time a project no one ever tried before.

You need clues, right?

And a lot of feedback from people more experienced than you.
Now, imagine you have the opportunity to meet one of the most influential entrepreneurs/VC/consultants in the field you are entering with your startup, and spend half an hour with him, explaining your idea, asking him all the questions you like about tricky aspects of your project, or problems you’re not sure how to solve.

Now imagine you can have 6/7 entrepreneurs/VCs/consultants at once, all of them focussing on your startup and using all their expertise to help you. Lastly, imagine you can have 4 sessions like that, all taking place in the same day, meeting a total of about 30 experts to extensively discuss your startup with.
That is the Seedcamp, and so much more.
What did me and Agrycult take from it?

Well, we found out that our approach to certain aspects of our business idea was wrong, or needed some work first, that we didn’t anticipate.

We also understood better which are our strenghts and got hints about how to leverage them. We understood the importance and the delicacy of measuring objective and achievements, that we underestimated. Ultimately, we made our development roadmap clearer and better, which will lead us to achieve our goals more efficiently, effectively and with less effort and time.
Besides, we are building a network of very intelligent and expert people we met in Paris, who like our project, are willing to help, and probably will become determining in the success of Agrycult.
Do I need to say more?

p.s. the idea of the picture of the Eiffel tower was taken from the nice post of our startup mates from Hear a Blog, met in Paris.

p.p.s. Ah, I forgot the volcano: if it wasn’t for the ash cloud ,I’d never have had the opportunity to know some extraordinary people. I’ve never seen a safer and friendlier catastrophe!

Awesome & destined.