Brian Gjerstrup
Co-founding StartupSteps.dk - Come join the fight for Entrepreneurship!
| Headline: | Startup Member |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://startupsteps.dk/ |
| Industries: | Education, Internet |
| Skills: | Business, Danish, English, Entrepreneurship, Languages, Leadership, Marketing, Norwegian, Sales |
| Next step: | Finding the 4th Co-founder. |
| Location: | Copenhagen |
| Groups: | BrianOgJonas, Intel EU 1, Social Innovation Relay, START Danmark, STARTit, Studentervæksthus Århus, StudieVirk , Venture Cup Denmark, Venture Cup Startup Competition |
| Visas: | All. |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Learning about entrepreneurship, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Recruiting |
| Tags: | (...), bde, business development engineer, company programme, ja-ye alumni europe, ja-ye europe, junior achievement young enterprise, yead, young enterprise denmark |
| Schools: | University of Aarhus |
FEATURED STARTUP
StartupSteps
StartupSteps
Entrepreneurs telling their personal story and being near role models.
- Startup type: University Spin-out
- Status: Active
- Stage: Beta
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About me, in short:
Passionate - enthusiastic - outgoing - ambitious - curious - inventive - visionary - networker - (...)
Have done:
JA-YE Alumni Europe(Chaired), Venture Cup Denmark(Representative), StartupWeekend 2011 in Aarhus and CPH(Participant), IT-Bizz(Assistant), Global stilladser(Worker), JA-YE Denmark(Assistant), YEAD(Committee Member and Chaired), (...)
Are doing:
Co-founding StartupSteps and finishing my degree as Business Development Engineer at Aarhus University Institute of Business and Technology in Herning (AU-IBT).
Are interested in:
The ecosystem for Entrepreneurs, Strategic Business Development, Entrepreneurship(age 16-25), Networking, Leadership, Personal development(EI)
"Entrepreneurs are made not born!" (...)
Specialties
Building and leading volunteer-based NGOs, Spotting opportunities, Mentoring young entrepreneurs, Strategic concept development, Generating ideas, Networking, (...)
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | JA-YE Alumni Europe |
| Position: | General European Coordinator |
| Time period: | October 2009 - Present |
| Description: | Lead the development of the ‘2009-11 strategy’ with starting-point from the SWOT analysis in the Master Thesis of Katharina Krenn; former GEC.
Implemented the online-based collaboration tool Basecamp in ECC and later on national level. |
| Employer: | Herning Ingeniørhøjskole - Aarhus Universitet |
| Position: | Marketing Assistent |
| Time period: | August 2009 - November 2009 |
| Employer: | IT Bizz |
| Position: | Sales assistant |
| Time period: | March 2009 - April 2009 |
| Description: | Impartial consultancy on ERP systems and Business Intelligence.
IT Bizz also delivers Business Intelligence solutions to companies with the need for easy and fast access to relevant key figure analysis as basis for both operational and strategic decision-making process. |
| Employer: | Delicious Design I/S |
| Position: | Product Developer and Designer |
| Time period: | June 2005 - August 2006 |
| Employer: | Cut'N'Carve |
| Position: | Manager |
| Time period: | August 2004 - June 2005 |
| Description: | It started as a JA-YE project, but soon turned to be a much more serious company. In Denmark we ended no 4. that year in Young Enterprise Company Programme. Unfortunately we had to put the company at standby thus we started op a new and more ambitious company by the name Delicious Design. This Company took the 1. Place in the National finals the year after and was nominated “Best Corporate Identity” at the JA-YE European Finals 2006.
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EDUCATION
| University: | University of Aarhus |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2011 |
| Degree: | Business Development Engineer, BSc |
INFORMATION
| Sports: | Fitness |
| Hobbies: | /Interests: The creation of an Entrepreneur, The Danish ecosystem for Entrepreneurship, Networking, Leadership, (...)
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| Memberships: | Committee member at JA-YE Alumni group Denmark (YEAD)
Committee member at BDE Future at AU IBT |
| Awards: | - One the team winning "Best Pitch" at StartupWeekend Aarhus, Feb.
2011. - Member of the 300 Elected European Future Leaders - European Business Summit 2010. http://www.thinkyoung.eu/website/ - Winner of the Grundfos Challenge Innovation prize 2010. - Winner of "Best Corporate Identity” with Delicious Design I/S at the JA-YE European Finals 2006. The Jury emphasized our fine sense for design and quality, - Best JA-YE Company in Denmark 2006 (Delicious Design) - JA-YE Entrepreneur of the year at Funen 2005/06. (Cut'N'Carve) - 4. place at JA-YE Denmark Championship 2005. (Cut'N'Carve) |
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Rade Glomazic
Currently a Doctoral candidate in Political science at the European Center for Peace and Development of the UN University of Peace. Have over ten years of professional experience working in socio-economic development activities and int. cooperation
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Nils Kähler
Danish, 26, majoring in design at Aarhus UNI, founder @ cast.li.
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Simon Søndergaard
Project Manager of the Develop Prize