Starting Up USA

(Documentary, GER 2017)

The lexRocket accelerator team around Florian Schmitt took the big startup adventure in the U.S. Five young men go on a road trip in a camper across the United States, from San Francisco via Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Oklahoma to New York. They meet with successful start-ups, big corporations and investors. With interesting insights and discoveries the trip ends at the New York Stock Exchange – the dream of every start-up.

19:00 (admission starts from 18:30)

Film screening & talk with:

• Florian Schmitt, Startup Relations Haufe-Lexware
• Robin Teuffel, Producer & Founder, Image Media
• Sebastian Schäfer, TechQuartier

GET STARTED! – a joint project of the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt, TechQuartier, and the Center of CreativeIndustries of the Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH. It's a film series with a selection of films from the American Film Showcase that gives insights into the entrepreneurship and start-up scene. Each event is focusing on topics such as ‘advancing science & technology’, ’empowering women’ and ‘entrepreneurship’ or ‘entrepreneurship culture’. Each film is followed by an open talk with local and international guests.

The American Film Showcase brings award-winning contemporary American documentaries, independent fiction films, and documentary know-how to audiences around the world, offering a view of American society and culture as seen by independent filmmakers. Funded by a grant from the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and produced by the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts (SCA), the Showcase highlights the value of film in fostering understanding and cooperation, dialogue and debate.

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