Put your startup idea under pressure, Berlin-style.

Berlin Startup Academy founder and German Tech Entrepreneurship Center co-founder Christoph joined his first startup team in 1999. He is the author of Business Punk magazine's startup review section, host of Germany's leading entrepreneurship talk show, and a mentor and speaker at conferences around the globe.

In March 2015, I started the bi-weekly G-Force workshop series in Berlin. Because too often, founders work on ideas that can never make it, no matter how passionate they are. Problems might be a twisted market, wrong perception of user needs, the fact that it has been tried n times before and always failed, and many other caveats that are best identified BEFORE starting to put serious effort into an idea.

So come and

a) show and tell your startup or product idea in order to get tough feedback BEFORE you begin to seriously put work and money into it. The feedback you get might either be a strong suggestion to reconsider or even fold your idea - or highly valuable advice on the next most useful steps to turn it into reality. There's no need for you to prepare a slide deck or follow any "elevator pitch" rule; just tell us what you're working on.

b) hear as a guest what other founders are working on, learn how to discover critical challenges and questions about ideas yourself, and maybe even join the team of an idea you particularly like.

Afterwards, we'll go out for drinks - I've never been to Belgrade, and I'm looking very much forward!