This Saturday, 1st October Betahaus Berlin held their People in Beta Festival.
During the event we could enjoy unusually warm October weather.
Berlin on a lovely autumn day:

Makerplatz a.k.a. Moritzplatz:

Now let’s start at the betahaus:

Beatriz of cinematografa.com filming during the event:

Awesome foundation pitch during betabreakfast:

Awesome foundation winner Willempje from Figure Running:

Ali from Protonet explaining their social network software and hardware box:

Lorenz from EyeEm explaining their photo sharing service and giving a flash course on the history of photography:

Alex Ljung from SoundCloud sharing about starting your own company:

You can hear his session recorded here – of course uploaded to SoundCloud. The recording is not ideal as I had the level on manual but had to fish out some headphones from my cramped backpack, sorry:
[soundcloud params=”auto_play=false&show_comments=true”]http://soundcloud.com/toha-2/alex-at-people-in-beta-2011[/soundcloud]
After the sessions and work shops some more pitches during betapitch.
Doonited social enterprise pitch:

5 minutes for pitching the idea – then 5 more for Q&A session:

Thorsten from Musicplayr explaining his business:

In the end winning the betapitch:












