Thank You

Here we are : the end of this amazing week!

We would like to thank the whole organization of this first Global Student Challenge and especially Lindsey Eversole and Jim Flowers. We really hope and believe that this event will grow and be one of the best global entrepreuneurship competition. This week wouldn't has been possible without our schools TELECOM SudParis and TELECOM Ecole de Management, the Challenge Projet d'Entreprendre partners and the incubator administration : Sebastien Cauwet, Augustin Radu and Sandrine De Groot.

Special thank to our host company Modea - where people have been very helpful for our project - and to our very nice host families Anne, Jane, Sharon, Richard and Vinny.

Finally, thank YOU readers that have followed us on this blog and see you soon on Artbeating.com ;)

The Artbeating team.

Friday, September 3rd : last day in Virginia Tech

On friday, we spent the morning shadowing Modea again. This time, we met David, the CEO who gave us a lot of helpful advices about entrepreneurship.

In the afternoon, we went to the New River Valley Mall with VT students. Then we went to Floyd where people play and listen bluegrass music every friday night. Finally we spent the rest of the night at the manor of The German Club, a fraternity where the most gentle and kind people of VT are gathered :P.

Then, we had to come back to our host family to pack our stuff...

See you in France or in Blacksburg next summer (maybe ;-) )!

The Artbeating team.

Wednesday & Thursday, September 1st & 2nd : The Global Student Business Challenge

These last days were so busy that we couldn't manage to write an article before today!

In fact, on wednesday, we went to the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center early in the morning. This hotel is very luxurious and impressive! In one of its conference room, Jim Flowers talked about entrepreneurship and his concept of "Moxie" : an entrepreneur never give up! After this long but interesting speech, we went to the NCTC Fall Gala (the local biggest gala about new technology) and practiced pitching for the challenge before going to bed.

On thursday morning, after a short night, we made our presentation in front of the challenge jury, the other participants and some other people. Just after the buffet lunch, the projects Ecosy (the Irish team), T2T (the English team) and Easycheck (the Israeli team) were awarded. Even though we didn't win, we had very good feedback by many people.

After this friendly competition, we went together to the Wikiteria Café in order to celebrate the end of the challenge.

See you soon,

The Artbeating team.