Roofcamp

The Ocean Cleanup

"19-year-old Boyan Slat, founder and president of The Ocean Cleanup, claims to “have invented a method to clean up almost half of the great Pacific’s garbage patch in just 10 years, using currents to [his] advantage.”

Foundation 31 // Evan Williams

Foundation 25 // Tony Hsieh

Accelerator Watch: Mozzilla's WebFWD

These are not advisors. These are not people who are your mentors. They are just friends. Friends, who are pretty much like you. They too have started companies. Friends who are smarter than you. Friends who have failed before. Friends who have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. And friends who have been successful, but have not let success change them.

Come to Roofcamp on Thursday, September 27, 2012 to warm up for Startup Weekend Manila. We'll be at CO.LAB Pasig in the Kapitolyo area.

We'll have two speakers for the night starting off with Jay Fajardo introducing Social Innovation Camp.

After a break, we'll follow Jay with SFO startup veteran and UX guru Nam Le talks about the importance of UX in any web startup venture.

You cant miss this one so register at roofcamp16.eventbrite.com

See the whole amazing story unfold at http://cainesarcade.com

Rockstart provides seed investment, 6-months of office space, 99 mentors, coaching by entrepreneurs in residence and a 3-week road-trip to Silicon Valley. In the US, startups will meet serial entrepreneurs, pitch to investors and VCs, and co-work at Google campus for several days.

Here's a great article I came across while visiting the website of dutch startup accelerator Rockstart.com. The original article is from The Guardian.

It's a story of a young boy, Mohammed Bashir Sheik, escaped from Somalia and is now one of the residents of a refugee camp in Kenya.

Sheik's strengthens the belief that setting up a startup is driven more by desire and passion than ability and circumstances. Those that complain about the environment not being 'startup friendly' might learn a thing or two from Sheik's inspiring story.