{"id":34112,"date":"2015-11-07T10:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e52.nl\/?p=34112"},"modified":"2015-11-07T10:44:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T09:41:16","slug":"start-up-life-8-waiting-for-the-rescue-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/start-up-life-8-waiting-for-the-rescue-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Start-up Life # 8: Waiting for the rescue organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slovenian start-up Gotoky<\/a> began Startupbootcamp HighTechXL<\/a> in the first week of September. The Eindhoven-based programme gives start-ups three months to work intensively on getting their company off the ground. For Gotoky, it’s a chance to further develop a smart walkie talkie \u2013 before the competition does. CEO\u00a0Denis Lon\u010dar will be talking to\u00a0e52 every week about his experience with Katja\u00a0Lipi\u010dnik,\u00a0Chief Marketing Officer, over the next three months.<\/i><\/p>\n

This week: Waiting for the\u00a0rescue organizations<\/i><\/p>\n

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Read all the previous instalments here.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Mountain Rescue Association of Slovenia is\u00a0an important potential client for Gotoky. There have been talks for a while now about how the smart walkie talkie could be a Godsend in disasters and emergencies. But the meeting to actually start testing together just hadn’t got off the ground. The rescue organization has\u00a0been completely preoccupied with the stream of refugees passing through Slovenia to get to Austria, Germany and beyond.<\/p>\n

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But now it’s happening. Denis has found a gap in their busy schedule and is flying back to his homeland for a few days this week to speak to the rescue\u00a0services and, most importantly, to see how the Gotoky could be used in the field. Denis is enthusiastic: \u201cThis is a big project. The Mountain Rescue Organization of Slovenia\u00a0is part of the EU team, which will also make applying for funds easier.\u201d The Slovenian collaboration would be a great test case for the use of the Gotoky by other national rescue\u00a0services, but that’s still along way off. Let’s see how this week goes first.<\/p>\n

There have also been a number of other breakthroughs: Gotoky can finally patent its technology. \u201cAn expensive but very important step.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Read about the importance of patents for start-ups here<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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The BV has also been set up in the Netherlands, even though Denis is expected to return to Slovenia after Demo day. [expand title=””]The closing event of the Startupbootcamp programme on 26 November.<\/em>[\/expand] \u201cWe have another company there and it would be hard to run it properly from the Netherlands.\u201d Registering your start-up in the Netherlands is a prerequisite for taking part in Startupbootcamp, but that’s not a problem for Denis: \u201cWe now do a lot of our meetings \u2013 including those with the Dutch \u2013 via Skype. That’s much more common here than in Slovenia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read all the previous instalments here.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Part 9 next week<\/p>\n

Photo (c) Kimon Kodossis<\/i><\/p>\n

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