​🔒 Exclusive event for START Warsaw members only.

​Build fast. Pick the right problem.

​One hour with Petter Made, Partner at EWOR and co-founder of SumUp, the European fintech unicorn, on how a small student team can go from zero to something real in weeks, and how to make sure it’s the right thing to build.

​What we’ll cover

​AI tooling has changed what a 3-5 person student team can ship. Things that used to need a funded startup now take a few people and a few weeks. But speed only helps if you’re building the right thing, and most teams don’t fail because they build too slowly. They fail because they build the wrong thing.

​Petter will walk through how to do both: find a problem worth solving and ship fast on it. He will talk about:

• ​how to spot a real problem, not just an interesting idea

• ​how to validate it quickly without over-researching

• ​what a small team can realistically ship with today’s AI tools

• ​what the first 30 days should look like, week by week

• ​where speed helps, and where it just creates mess

• ​how to know when to commit and when to move on

• ​what he would do differently in the early days of SumUp

​Who is Petter Made?

​Petter is a fintech founder with 25+ years of experience building platforms, products and teams.

​Co-founder of SumUp, the payments company serving 4M+ small businesses in 36 countries, valued at around €8B

• ​Former CPTO at Drooms, where he helped scale the virtual data room business

• ​Earlier leadership roles at Inatec Payment, Ongame Networks and Chinsay

• ​Full-time Partner at EWOR, where he gives weekly 1:1 mentoring to early-stage founders

​About EWOR
EWOR is a fellowship for outlier founders building transformative tech. It backs the top 0.1% of applicants with up to €500,000 in funding and weekly 1:1 mentorship from unicorn founders (SumUp, Adjust, ProGlove) who work there full-time.

​About START Sprint
START Sprint is START Warsaw’s flagship program for new members. Teams take one idea from zero to a working prototype, validate it with real users, and pitch it to investors at Demo Day. The whole thing runs in 21 days. This workshop is built for that mindset: move faster than feels reasonable, and learn from real users.

​Who can attend

​This session is exclusively for START Warsaw members. You get direct access to a founder who built a European unicorn, and a chance to ask him your own questions. Spots are limited, so register early.

​Not a member yet? Apply to START Warsaw.
This workshop is for members only, but you still have time to join. Applications close on 18 October. Apply here: startwarsaw.org/apply