Startup Scene
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16 tourism startups to discover at World Tourism Forum 17
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World Tourism Forum. The Forum aims in gathering global leaders of the travel, tourism and hospitality industries to learn about the new development and brainstorm on how to adapt to the changes happening. And to meet startups ! This year, World Tourism Forum is organizing a Startup Innovation Camp (coaching day with presentation to the…
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Why Your Daughter Probably Won't Be a Startup Founder in Switzerland
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This is a guest post by Lea von Bidder, co-founder and President of Ava Science, a Swiss startup based in Switzerland and California. Lea published this post originally on her Linkedin profile on Thursday 8th of March, the Women Day, and I thought this kind of excellent content should be spread as widely as possible… Do not hesitate to comment…
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5 Years of Blogging
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Why I started blogging In one of my previous life, I used to be a startup coach and business developer for a technology park, lost in Northwestern Switzerland (in canton of Jura). My mission was to discover promising startups and try to attract them there, with a local economic development mission: bring and create high…
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My Startup Events Selection for October
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This year has been completely crazy so far. And even more since August, as we’ve organized 2 Demo Days @Fintech FUSION and are preparing us intensively for the new batch of startups, entering the acceleration program on Wednesday (more information to come on FUSION blog). As I’m used to say, I’m in a « Grand Bleu » mode (that…
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5 Startup Events to Attend in September
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Crypto’16, September 13th, Zürich On a half-day event, you will be able to meet with key players of the fintech and finance industry to learn about « How cryptofinance changes the world » There will be talks about the cryptocurrency «Bitcoin» and about its underlying technology, the Blockchain. 2015 was the hype year for the term…
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Discover the « Startup Nation »
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sad vote of February 9th, 2014, is not yet implemented. And I hope that it will never be really implemented, as, as stupid as it sounds, it was simply a way to express gloominess (as it sounds to be the case for Brexit, but which has ways more damaging impact). But that could be the…
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Does Switzerland Now Have Its Startup Event?
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Web Summit (now moving to Lisbon), Paris had one with LeWeb (now kind of « replaced » by the The Rude Baguette events or the new Viva Technology event), Vienna has Pioneers, Münich has DLD Conference, Amsterdam has The Next Web, Barcelona has many startup events around the Mobile World Congress, Berlin and London have PLENTY (NOAH,…
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SICTIC Investor Day Lausanne is back (without me!)
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SICTIC Investor Day Lausanne will happen in Lausanne on April 25th, at EPFL. 8 selected technology-driven startups (the web, mobile, software, hardware) will have the opportunity to do an elevator pitch (one slide, 90 seconds) to an interesting audience comprised of business angels, professional investors and startup enthusiasts. The public will then select 4 startups based…