Fundraising
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Accelerate your startup with… Disney!
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Some weeks ago, I attended an interesting information event in London. The famous film studio company Disney partnered with the also famous accelerator TechStars to launch a dedicated Disneyaccelerator program . Goal of the initiative is to gather 10 startups during 15 weeks and let them access to the whole creative expertise and resources (you…
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What is a Business Angel and where to find them (Part II)
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Business Angels Suisse How: 3 dinner meetings per month, on Wednesday (2nd of the month in Zürich, 3rd in Lausanne / 2nd Thursday in Lake Constance). 3-4 startups per meeting are invited to pitch their startup. Industries: all industries Portfolio: 78 startups financed so far (and around 30 where angels invested outside of the club)…
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What is a Business Angel and where to find them (Part I)
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Why taking money from your family and friends is a bad idea) and I’ll present here another segment of investors active in the startup world: business angel (or also called angel investor or simply angel). But what is a business angel? The term is often over used or over dreamt. An angel is a wealthy individual investing…
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Why taking money from your family or your friends is a bad idea
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Founders Family Friends Fools Foundations Family Offices The fools are wealthy individuals who are ready to invest in your project quite irrationally – or are they the real superstars of a startup ecosystem, because they have guts to fund a team of other fools (entrepreneurs are hungry and foolish, as Steve Jobs greatly said years…
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NOAH Conference – THE internet conference in Europe?
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Next Berlin to Web Summit, from LeWeb to Pioneers Festival, you could spend almost all of your time at conferences. How do select the ones to attend as an entrepreneur? It’s hard, really hard. And I’d argue that if you’re an entrepreneur who want to make real business, you’d better go to conferences related to…
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Meet 8 promising startups from Switzerland!
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only an often necessary milestone to grow faster and which may lead to success). But the point is that there are a lot of entrepreneurs out there building interesting tech startups. On November 4th, 8 of them will have an opportunity to present their concept! I’m organizing the 2nd ICT Investors Day in Western Switzerland, at Chambre Vaudoise…
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Startup competitions, don't waste entrepreneur's time!
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chances of getting selected; return on investment (does this money bring you any step forward?) press coverage you could get if you’re nominated or awarded. But please, startup competitions: don’t waste entrepreneur’s time! Fortunately, there are clever guys out there who have already recognized this problem. Have you ever heard about f6s? It’s a web…
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21 ICT startups to meet on June, 18th
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Scientific Park. There are also big names of the industry to find there (Samsung, Nokia, Logitech, to name a few). On June, 18th, Lausanne will welcome for the second time a one day-event gathering selected tech startups from the Alpine region (from southern France to South Germany) and investors from around the world. The Alpine…
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10 awards to fund your early stage idea
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Coaching organization Genilem and Yverdon-based high-school Heig-VD partnered to launch a business plan competition: prize money (in cash): CHF 20’000.00 additional support: 3 years of mentoring provided by Genilem participants: applications are restricted to students or employees from high-schools of canton of Vaud and Geneva (HEIG-VD, HES La Source, ECAL, HESAV, EESP, HEMU, EHL, HETSR, EIC) deadline: 24th of May…
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Discover 8 web & mobile startups on 13th of May!
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ICT Investors Day in Romandie will take place. Kindly hosted by Debiopharm Group, the event will start at 17:00 (door opening at 16:30). Event is open to anyone interested by startups… but especially if you are investing in startups! You can register until 11th of May, so hurry up to secure your seat now! 8 web…