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How to modernize Swiss Army (even without new planes !) – Part I/II
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If you’re living in Switzerland, you’ve probably heard or read that citizens will have to say yes or no to 32 new planes, named « Gripen ». These flights will cost around CHF 3.2bn and around CHF 200M per year during 30 years (for maintenance, etc.). These engines will be built by a Swedish company, but there…
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"Look Up" – A spoken word film for an online generation.
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Gary Turk, a London-based writer and director (it’s buzzing around the web, with more than 20 millions views in less than 2 weeks). Gary Turk made a great job explaining with some irony who we currently live. Hyper connected guys. We live in a social world. But are social networks that social (in the true sense)?…
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Let's conquer China!
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USA seems obvious for Swiss tech entrepreneurs as a key market for their international expansion. But more and more, China is also a place to go, if not THE place to go! This country has experienced such a massive economic development (ask any luxury Swiss watchmaker how important is this country for their brand!) and…
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Let's save the Erasmus exchange program!
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here). One of the first negative effect of this decision taken by a tiny majority of Swiss citizen is the freezing by European Union of the Erasmus student exchange program. It’s a really bad news for Swiss students. I was an Erasmus student in 2004-2005, and I can only give evidence of the benefit of…
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A great news for Swiss startup scene!
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SublimeVideo, has been bought by video platform giant DailyMotion. The amount of the transaction has not yet been disclosed and seems to be both an acquisition of technology and talents. You can find more about the announcement here. The core team behind Lausanne-based startup Jilion started to work together long ago, in 2007. The initial project…
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Launch time
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I couldn’t dream of a better timing to launch: recent news in the music industry are just validating our concept. And we are ahead of what they say. Crazy, no? If you’d like to be one of the first to discover what we are doing, why not registering to our newsletter? I’ll take a break…
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Hardworking sunny holidays
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If you’ve not planned anything and were planning to continue hardworking, you may consider SunnyStartup, a 15 days bootcamp in Marrakech (!) to boost your project. Or have new ideas. Or simply to learn lot of things. Surrounded by IT, design, communication and marketing professionals, among other one by the famous Bill Carney (entrepreneur, marketing guru and…
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The Swiss Ice Hockey national team – a role model
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It’s an authentic exploit for Switzerland and will remain in mind of everyone during years… or not. Because what we have been able to observe is a deep mentality change. Some years ago, everyone would have been more than happy with a quarter final. This year, everyone is disappointed not having won the gold medal!…