Startup Scene
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Find Co-Founders and Kick-Start Your Startup Project
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lean startup, value proposition canvas and business model canvas are anything but new – at least for people working in startup environments, many people who have an idea do not know how to start. I’m facing this problem quite often with my own digital agency, when people come to me with a wonderful project idea,…
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Bringing Back Trust in Tech
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Center for Digital Trust end of 2018. Part of this program is the Tech4Trust startup acceleration program, lasting 4 months and leaded by EPFL Innovation Park. Tech4Trust announced this 7th of October 2019 14 startups they selected for this acceleration program. Here they are! Access Informer: Access Informer is a simple yet powerful solution for…
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This Was SeedStars Summit 19. And its 77 Startups!
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Early April, the SeedStars Summit took place at Swiss Tech Convention Center in Lausanne. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend it in person. Luckily, a tech and startup enthusiast of my network, Elliot Morisod, was able to jump in and report it here… So thank you Elliot for sharing your experience participating to SeedStars…
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The 50 Swiss Startups in Which to Invest in 2019
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Bilan in Lausanne. For the 7th consecutive year, Bilan selected 50 Swiss startups in which to invest. More than 145 startups applied (all applying for the first time) and a team of experienced entrepreneurs and investors was mandated to review the applications and selects its favorites. Fabrice Delaye, the well-known tech journalist of Bilan, who is…
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Discover the Startups of La Forge, at EPFL Innovation Park
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EPFL Innovation Park is organising for the 9th time the Demo Day of La Forge on June 21st, from 14:00. The startup entrepreneurs of this co-working place located right at the heart of EPFL Innovation Park will be pitching their startup and demonstrating their product at their booth. La Forge Demo Day is a unique…
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Win a Free Ticket to Fintech 2018 & Swiss Fintech Awards Night
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Fintech 2018. Many C-level people from the biggest Swiss financial institutions will be there, and this is a great opportunity to network! Startupolic is partnering with the Fintech 2018 conference to offer ONE free ticket to the whole conference! And for all the ones who will not win, we have a special 50% discount (but…
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Our Interview @ Y Combinator – Guest Post by Ledgy
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This is a Guest post by Yoko Spirig, originally published here. Yoko is one of the 3 co-founders of the Zürich-based startup Ledgy, created during Summer 2017. In this blog post, she describes their experience of being selected for an interview at the Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View, California. And why she thinks it’s…
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Starting up @La Forge – Discover the Startups!
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The EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute for Technology) is one of the best engineering school in the world. In the last 10 years, I’ve been seing the massive change happening on the entrepreneurial/startup ecosystem there. The EPFL Innovation Park (initially known as the Parc Scientifique, rebranded back in 2010 or so) has expanded massively, from 3…
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The 50 Best-Funded Startups in Switzerland in One Map (and What It Means For The Startup Ecosystem)
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as I’ve launched startupolic.com, I remember that almost nobody was blogging on the Swiss startup scene. Or most were abandoning the effort after a few posts. Fortunately, this has changed! Today I’m pleased to publish a guest post by Tatjana de Kerros-Budkov, who is currently the Startup Builder at Ricolab Innovation Lab (Ricola), Mentor, and 2x…