Introducing: Proof of Concept Participants 2022

Proof of Concept 2022 - our participants

This year's Entrepreneurship Summit - October 22-23, 2022 - will once again feature our annual Proof of Concept competition.

On Saturday, the 10 founders will present their product or service on the main stage in the Audimax after the lunch break. Afterwards, they have until Sunday afternoon to test their product/service directly on the market, generate first sales and get valuable feedback from the Entrepreneurship Summit participants. You will find their booths on the upper floor of the Henry Ford Building.

To get started, you can get to know our Proof of Concept participants 2022 a little bit here.

Giving & taking good feedback - with feedback pins

Giving and receiving feedback is not that easy - often we lack a safe framework, the necessary time, a neutral basis for discussion or the courage to be honest. But good feedback is essential for understanding how our actions affect others.

Based on 30 different values, the feedback pins help you create small moments of reflection that shed light on your actions in specific situations. Guidance helps you and your counterpart enter the situation and learn to give and accept good feedback.

The pins are magnetic and perfect for pinning to your clothing for easy visibility. Once you do this, it is an active invitation for your colleagues, friends or partners to give you feedback using the instructions. Central to each of these is a particular value that guides the reflection. Values that we have chosen for you are, for example: Freedom, Courage, Satisfaction, Passion, Power, Self-determination, and many more.

Skinmeleon

Skinmeleon skin care brand does not contain, as conventional cosmetics, up to 75% ineffective water, but instead effective bamboo hydrolate, which completely replaces the water.

The result? Two essential facial serums from Skinmeleon form completely new, effective, time-efficient and sustainable skin care routines with only one product per use.  

Thanks to the highly concentrated bamboo hydrolate, the Skinmeleon formula is anti-inflammatory, skin sebum-regulating and anti-aging right from the start.

In addition, the essential face serum for tomorrow's skincare routine smoothes the skin, moisturizes, makes the skin radiant and protects it from harmful environmental influences.

The essential face serum for the night skin care routine calms the skin after the exhausting events of the day, regenerates it and provides intensive moisture.

Both serums can be used for the face and the sensitive eye area and are adapted to winter and summer skin stress. They are vegan, paraben-free, dermatologically tested and suitable for all skin types (even the sensitive and acne-prone!).

Skinmeleon skin care products are healthy for the skin healthy, the wallet and the environment.

Website: Skinmeleon

 

beosh – the handbag that hands back

punkt

Imagine that you can control your behavior in a desired direction through your clothing. So that you become, for example, a bit braver, friendlier or even more generous.

"Internal signaling" is the keyword in behavioral psychology.

In studies, trigger words such as "generous" were printed on the inside of T-shirts so that only those wearing them could read the writing. The behavioral difference from those who wore the writing on the outside or none at all was subsequently measurable.

We now want to enhance clothing, starting with T-shirts, with positive "internal signaling" messages. We do this, however, not by simply printing on the inside of the garment, but by embroidering finger-readable Braille, that is, embroidered Braille on the visible and tactile outside.

We enclose a translation table with the garment: Braille - Latin letters.

Our project is aimed at all those who are interested in personal growth through positive psychology, who are sensitive to the challenges of non-sighted people or would like to raise awareness about this, or who love fashion with new, fresh touches to stand out.

The t-shirts make a fitting personalized gift to friends or are ideal as an onboarding gift for new employees.

Website: punkt

 

Was will ICH eigentlich? - A guide to choosing a career

You don't feel fulfilled in your job? You don't know which career path to take and what you actually want?

Instead of reading a lot of career guides, you should rather go on a career journey with me. So that you can better answer the question: "What do I actually want?", I have put together a varied exercise program for you in my book. The questions it contains will help you to reflect on your behavior, your abilities, interests and dreams, so that in the end you will have a clearer picture of who you are and what you want. And with two additional workshops, you will have the opportunity to get to know yourself even better together with me - by examining your perception of others or by considering specific job opportunities that suit you.

I want to encourage you that it is always time for change if you are dissatisfied with the status quo. Are you ready to find out what you want? Then let's start your career journey together - I look forward to meeting you! Your Lena

mysmarTIME - Learn Languages and drink Tea

 

FEATR

FEATR is a minimalistic software solution for a complex problem: legal security in the creative industry. After answering a few questions, the contract offer can be sent to any number of people and replaces the order confirmation, GTC, briefing and automates invoicing.

The negotiation process should be freed from ballast and thus enables an effective, transparent and comprehensibly managed process. By guiding the process along the essential points of the contract, a fair agreement can be reached in a very short time without any prior legal knowledge.  Through modern, minimalistic interface design, the process should feel as "non-legalistic" and short as possible. The swipe mechanism enables an almost playful exchange with the counterpart. Parallel to the negotiation, a written contract is generated. The simple negotiation process, is contrasted with the pure text in the necessary complexity. The content required by law and market standards is included. It can be viewed and adapted as a full text at any time, but should not be the focus of the user.  The information contained in the contract is clearly presented in a dashboard and made accessible for project management, budgeting, accounting and more.

This is how legal certainty leads to more creativity.

Website: FEATR

 

Oskaroo - The digital waiter kangaroo

The restaurant industry is currently experiencing hard times. Many service staff who had to take a break during Corona are not returning to their jobs. As a result, restaurants have shorter opening hours or have to close completely.

In addition, the existing service staff is completely overworked at peak times and can no longer focus on excellent service.

Oskaroo - the digital helper in the restaurant, is a web application for restaurateurs, which quickly and easily digitizes the menu, supports the service staff with repetitive tasks, offers many inspiring comfort functions for the guests and thereby combats in particular the staff shortage caused by Corona as well as increases the turnover of the restaurant.

The digital menu, created by Oskaroo, can be easily accessed via QR code using the restaurant's own smartphone. Guests can also filter the dishes according to their preferences, translate them into their local language, collect their order on a watch list and finally transmit it collectively to the service staff. In addition, payment can be made directly electronically and, if necessary, service staff can be called at the click of a button.

Oskaroo helps restaurateurs to enter the digital world in a simple and cost-effective way. We are an interdisciplinary team of software developers, psychologists, business economists and entrepreneurs and we want to make restaurants fit for the future without losing the unique experience of a good restaurant visit.

Website: Oskaroo - Das digitale Kellner-Känguru

 

Beautiful Cooking – Coaching on the basics of cooking

Cooking for yourself is healthy, saves packaging waste and is such a really nice, sensual activity.

You do not know quite how to cook? In my cooking coaching you will learn the basics of cooking and I will support you in finding your way with it.

You will learn how food 'works', how to optimize its preparation and experiment with this knowledge in the kitchen. Stories about the origins and ingredients of staple foods, spiced with a pinch of art and literature will round out the kitchen meeting. In the end, you will be able to prepare and develop different dishes for yourself - just because you know how.

As a first offer I organize:

Online kitchen meetings 'How the potato ticks'.

In small groups, we'll devote all our time to this earthy and diverse tuber. You will learn what varieties and cooking types are, how to store and prepare them. The latter will be tried out by everyone in their own kitchen during the kitchen meeting.

You can find the dates on my website www. Beautiful-cooking.de under 'Current Kitchen Meetings'.

About Bärbel Wohlenberg

I have been a passionate cook for many years - in the everyday kitchen. I love chopping and sizzling as much as I love delicious food. I would like to pass on my knowledge about cooking for yourself - just like my curiosity and my joy in doing so.

Add to that my large portion of life experience that I have gathered over the years. As a bookseller, archaeologist and coach, I have organized, developed process optimizations and accompanied change processes in various industries - from bookselling and publishing to IT and banking. My central theme was an improvement of communication between service providers and their customers as well as between superiors and employees.

I look forward to seeing you at one of my kitchen meetings.

Website: Beautiful Cooking

 

The Green Grip – a sustainable tennis grip tape

My name is Viktor Hasreiter and I am the future CEO of The Green Grip.

The Green Grip is a sustainable tennis grip tape.

The sustainable tennis grip tape suits me because I myself have been playing tennis enthusiastically since childhood and am also a licensed tennis coach. It comes to the market in a packaging-saving, resource-saving, environmentally conscious way. The material for the grip tape is sourced regionally in Germany. Functionally top, because it promises extreme durability and faster usability in practice.

The Green Grip is only available in bulk packs, which saves on logistics and packaging.

The unique selling propositions mentioned above set The Green Grip apart from the competition and enable it to offer customers a fair price and also to treat and pay all those involved, from production to the product's arrival at the end consumer, fairly.

Website: The Green Grip