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Unique (swiss) opportunity to pitch VC's
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A wonderful opportunity for swiss tech startups will take place on Wednesday 23rd May 2012 in Lausanne: the Swiss Venture Forum (SVF) The event will allow the most promising Life Sciences, Clean Technology and Information Communication Technology entrepreneurs from Switzerland to meet and pitch active international investors and corporations. 30-40 early stage companies from Switzerland…
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The Founder Institute is finally coming to Switzerland – WELCOME!
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As another proof that Switzerland is a strong (ICT) entrepreneurial scene, The Founder Institute is opening its program in May 2012. 3 years after launch, this global accelerator for founders by founders is opening its 32nd location in Bern (Europe has 7 other locations like THE tech hot spot Berlin). During 15 weeks, wannabe entrepreneurs…
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Meet a serial investor & entrepreneur from Zürich
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Martin Saidler, serial entrepreneur and investor, is back to Switzerland for around 2 years and is one of the rare investor in the region who will only invest in internet startups (or at least, who is publicly claiming it). Mr. Saidler was successful in Berlin and then in Eastern Europe, where he had up to…
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Lausanne's startup scene is heating up!
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Startup Weekend Lausanne took place for a second time this week-end at the inspiring Rolex Learning Center at EPFL. 120 creative guys worked together during 54 hours to pitch their project to the jury (which I was a part of) on Sunday evening. 55 projects were pitched on Friday night and the 18 “best ones”…
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7 (+1) startups presenting at The Hub Zurich
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On Monday, I attended the 5th ICT Investor Day in coworking space The Hub Zürich, organized by Swiss ICT. First, an institutional investor can present its company and this time, it was c-crowd, a crowdfunding platform started in 2011 in Zürich. Concept is to leverage internet to get a plenty of private investors, who can…
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Venture Night @Lift Conference: 8 startup pitching!
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AlpICT Venture Night took place Thursday evening at Lift Conference in Geneva. Successful entrepreneur Christian Wanner, founder and CEO of online supermarket LeShop, pitched quickly about the journey of his venture. He started in the web early days, in 1997, at 27. He and his team experienced the entrepreneurial rollercoaster so extremely that he was…
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HOW TO become an Editor-in-Chief
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News industry is experiencing a deep change and a lot of startups and more established companies try to revolutionize how people consume news. Some services want to learn your habits and push you automatically provided news (automated curation). Some others just bring you the possibility to add your own sources like twitter and facebook. And…
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10 promising mobile startups from Switzerland
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Discover 10 swiss mobile start-up that have taken part to the competition during first Swiss Mobile Basecamp in January! DidThis, formerly known as Quantter, is a startup mixing the world of micro-blogging, self-tracking and business intelligence. They’ve built an application ” to spread actions”. You can start a trend and… change the world. DidThis guess…
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App store economics: key learnings from Swiss Mobile Basecamp
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Nobody talks about app stores fragmentation and, according to Andreas Constantinou, that’s a real pain for mobile application developers. In fact, if you develop applications on multiple mobile OS (iOS, Android, Symbian, Windows, RIM), how do you manage them all efficiently (each one has different reglementation, etc.)? He quoted Steven Elop, CEO of Nokia, who…