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The Mobile Developer's Guide
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During my stay at NEXT Berlin 2012 and just before my departure, I’m fallen over a little guide called “Mobile Developer’s guide to the Galaxy”, edited by the German company enough software. First edition of the guide was released during Mobile World Congress 2009, after noticing that developers and decision makers felt lost in the…
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Venture Leaders' spirit!
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Some weeks ago, I attended the yearly event organized by Jordi Montserrat and his team at venturelab at Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne, the Venture Leaders ceremony. The “Venture Leaders” is a 10-days business program in Boston, where 20 founders of world-class startups from Switzerland meet potential US partners, investors, and compete with local…
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HOW TO Make The Perfect Pitch (Part III/III)
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first and second post, give them a look! This week, we’ll discuss more about soft skills (or Emotional Intelligence Quotient). But maybe some of you have never heard of what soft skills are, According to Wikipedia, they are behavioral competencies, which are also known as interpersonal skills, or people skills, which include proficiencies such as…
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17 inspiring quotes that drive my action
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As a fanatic about startup and innovation, I read a lot. And I think I’m not the only one keeping some quotes out of books or articles that inspire you or help you build yourself. Here below are some quotes I’ve selected over time and that I find particularly good and that represent a lot…
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ICT Spring 2012@Luxembourg – Special guest post!
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For the first time of startupolic short existence, I’ve decided to invite Miguel Molina, CEO of MySollars (on which I’ve blogged here some time ago), to share his experience attending ICT Spring 2012 in Luxembourg (I was unfortunately not able to attend). If you were going to ask me about the profile of people that…
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Discover the 10 startups awarded by De Vigier Foundation
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2012 is the 25th anniversary of the creation of De Vigier Foundation, which aims to foster entrepreneurship in Switzerland. Bill De Vigier was a successful swiss entrepreneur, who was the man who revolutionized the building industry worldwide. The foundation created by Mr. De Vigier has one unique goal: foster entrepreneurship and bring a bit of…
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8 web startup unveiling the Blue Lion Incubator in Zürich
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Monday was time for the 6th ICT Investor Day, organized by Business Angel Switzerland‘s president Jan Fülscher. The concept is rather interesting: 8 startup pitch their idea in 90 seconds (with or without slides), and investor’s crew then select the 4 ones they’d like to see in 7 minutes presentation. Host of the event was…
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Discover 17 venture leaders, who build cutting-edge startups!
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Tuesday afternoon has seen the first public appearance of the “Swiss Startup nationa team”, selected by the Switzerland-wide entrepreneurship education program venturelab. These 20 founders will travel to Boston early June and have the chance to present to US VC’s, meet US startups and many more other cool stuff. Here they are: STAFF FINDER is…
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Wake up, warm up… JURA startup!
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This weekend was the first edition of Startup Weekend Jura, taking place in a crazy location: a wellness center! Around 50 people were participating to this event and not less than 23 ideas were presented on Friday night to the crew (just 60 seconds to tell what’s your idea, why you think there’s a great…