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First Friday
The Curated Network for Entrepreneurs
Find the right
investors
partners
clients
providers
you can trust,
through local contacts in a global network
Meet personally professionals from diverse disciplines and cultures every First Friday of the month
Three pillars of am@rte
Establishing high-quality business contacts through personal encounters.
Scaling local networks to a globally interconnected ecosystem thanks to our digital platform.
Enhancing growth of members' businesses through feedback and referrals.
Pitch your business and learn how to grow it.
Meet-up!
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Get feedback and learn from professionals
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Get inspired and motivated
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Build your personal branding and acquire expert status
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Establish high-quality business contacts
Professionalize your network with our platform
Team-up!
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Create your digital business card and get recommeded
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Find partners, clients, providers or co-founders
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Curate your contacts and never lose a business oportunity
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Stay in touch with people you meet at events
Get things done with am@rte
Start-up!
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Create a website for your business within am@rte platform
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Receive professional feedback on a regular basis
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Find projects you would like to engage with
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Make your business thrive
Create your digital business card
Find easily right & trustworthy business partners
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Create a landing page for your project
Sign-up
We are opening doors to discover new talents and people willing to participate in any way they choose as a collective entity.
Register for a meet-up to apply for a membership and get early access to am@rte digital platform.
About
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Creativity without frontiers
amarte means in Spanish “to love you” and stands for Alemania México Arte as it started as a residence exchange program for artists in May 2011.
Today am@rte is a collaborative network for entrepreneurs, who meet every first Fridays of the month in local groups within a global network.
The Making of am@rte
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1
2011
am@rte is founded in Ajijic, Mexico with the idea of selling Mexican art in Germany
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2
2012
The monthly meetings of Wissen-Kontakte-Chancen grows more and more popular and becomes the central meeting point of am@rte members
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3
2013
Wissen-Kontakte-Chancen launches Businessplan Workshop Series as a case study. Alejandro starts to import San Miguel shoes to Germany
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4
2014
Alejandro becomes a finalist of the Gründer Garage with San Miguel Shoesan Miguel Shoes
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5
2015
Daniel Palma, an artist and member of am@rte, is invited by Prof. Faltin, FU Berlin, to create a kinetic sculpture for the Entrepreneurship Summit
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6
2016
Knowledge-Network-Chances changes the name to First Friday and becomes a regular meetup series focused on entrepreneurship. Additional more hands-on meetup series DosDays starts to take place
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7
2017
Alejandro presents am@rte at the Mexican embassy
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8
2018
First Friday reaches over 1000 members
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9
2019
A new First Friday chapter in Ajijic, Mexico joins the am@rte network
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10
2019
a new am@rte chapter opens in Luxembourg
Testimonials
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Klaus Krause, K3PM
Cooperation versus Competition
Our vision is entrepreneurship that overcomes competition and is driven by cooperation and co-creativity
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Alejandro Wagner, CEO of am@rte
Diversity Drives Innovation
We believe, that by connecting ideas with people from diverse disciplines, industries and cultures, who share the same “why”, we can bridge the gap
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Joanna Czarnecka, Zixio
Real Connections
As our company was just an idea, we got a chance to present it at the First Friday. The feedback and the support we got from the network contributed a lot to building a successful technology company that we are now