We know what you have all been waiting for, so here it is! Our participants spent 54 hours trying to perfect their ideas. Our mentors gave their best to help them. Our amazing judges worked really hard to reach their final verdict. Third place goes to.... MULTITAINER!

After a rigorous 54-hour business marathon, it is time for our participants to find out the results. We already know who took the bronze. Now we can announce that the silver goes to ... WannaDrive!

Are you ready to find out who the ultimate winner is? We are all really excited to announce that after a passionate discussion our expert jury of judges decided that the first place goes to ... WATCHO! CONGRATULATIONS!

Huge "Thank you" to Eleven Ventures Eleven Ventures for their constant support! This year they are giving the leader of the winning team of the StartUP Weekend 2018 the opportunity to become a Padawan of the founder of one of the Eleven's portfolio companies.

StartUP Conference 2019 is here 💡 with the unifying theme: SUSTAINABILITY. Engaging lectures and inspiring workshops will lead you down the path to success and will show you that all it takes to make your boldest ideas come true is to StartUP. Build. Sustain.

Unifying speeches under this year’s theme will make each one of you come out energised up to an electrifying magnitude! ⚡ Manifold business & social spheres guided by unique offbeat career paths will collide on stage to challenge your perception of how to SUSTAIN your ABILITY!

We have sustained our ability to surprise you, and for our next trick we have prepared... a TV appearance. Find out more about the StartUP Conference on Friday, 16:10, TV Evropa, with our lovely president Natalia Rogova and Marketing member Asya Velichkova event.gg/11825/

📣 Clifford "Cliff" Hurst, Ph.D 📣 Speech: 3 Keys to Sustaining Your Entrepreneurial Journey 📣 Workshop: The Five Hats of a Startup Team Cliff's mission is to help people to know themselves, choose themselves, grow themselves, and then give themselves to something greater! 💡

📣 Ventsislav Topuzov 📣 Topic: Nurturing Entrepreneurial Spirit in a Large Company You will learn what the management paradigm is for large corporations in the era of disruptions, the best practices in stimulating distributed product and process innovation! 💡

One week left! 📣 Kiril Petkov 📣 Building the sustainable relationship between innovations and tradition through biotechnologies Kiril is a co-founder of the Center for Economic Strategy and Competitiveness, and the owner of the biotechnology company ProViotic! 🌏

👱‍♀🧔: Svetoslava Koynova & Tihomir Ivanov 🔧🛒: Sustainability in long-term businesses. Svetoslava and Tihomir are co-founders of the language school "Part Time Language & Culture Center" and English Meetup Club - the first and longest running English speaking club in Sofia!

Less than a week until we get to share with you the product of our months' worth of hard work and dedication! 🚀 📣 Blagovesta Pugyova 📣 Topic: Social Entrepreneurship in practice Blagovesta Pugyova is the founder of the NGO "Give a Book", CEO of Childish, and an ED of Time H.

📣 Niki Iliev 📣 Sustainability in the Film Industry Niki will share with you how he found his own way to fund his movies after a lot of institutions turned him down. He turned his passion into a business by following a strategy which was not developed in Bulgaria before that.

👤 Byfield Donald 🔧 Topic: Having the cake and getting a piece too This is a workshop about finding the right equation of the three P’s ( People, Planet & Profits) and creating the balance between them and an insight of Donald’s practical application to the food business! 🧠

📣Omar Al Busaidy 📣Attitude of an Entrepreneur Omar’s journey into business will spike your mind on how to approach whatever you want to do and how to manage to sustain it. He's a Fulbright nominee, a best-selling author, an entrepreneur and the host of Future Talk on Pulse 95

👤 Petya Parvanova 🔧 How to (super)power sustainability? Do you want to sustain your ability to transform? Have you found your purpose, and do you know how to execute it? Are you willing to develop your intellectual humility? You can expect all this, and much more from Petya 🎯

The schedule is up! Please check your emails to register for our workshops. Note that there will be a workshop in the morning and in the afternoon. 🔧 Don’t forget that the spots are limited so you should hurry up and secure one for the workshop you would most like to attend! ⚙️

Thank you so much karolinakostadinova for inviting me to speak StartUP@Blagoevgrad in #Bulgaria _ My experience was awesome from start to finish and the love and support that I got from all… instagram.com/p/Bv7Wqh0hYR4/…

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The entire organizing team would like to thank every single one of you for sharing this day with us! ⚡️ Without all of you, there wouldn’t have been a Conference and we are so, so happy all of you showed up! 🎉 Thank you so much — and we’ll see you again next year! ❤️