Startup Scene
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What are you doing early February? Register to Lift Conference now and save 20%!
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We are 3 months away from the famous biggest innovation conference in Switzerland: Lift Conference. Lift will happen early February 2014 (5-7th) in Geneva. The conference keeps the same format: workshops, Venture Night (startup pitch session), inspiring talks from top speakers (on the future of work, the sharing economy, managing innovation cycles, markets becoming conversations, and so…
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NOAH Conference – THE internet conference in Europe?
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Next Berlin to Web Summit, from LeWeb to Pioneers Festival, you could spend almost all of your time at conferences. How do select the ones to attend as an entrepreneur? It’s hard, really hard. And I’d argue that if you’re an entrepreneur who want to make real business, you’d better go to conferences related to…
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Welcome to the "Grand Bazaar" of startups
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For the second year, I’m attending Dublin Web Summit these days (I’ve written about it last year: Ireland – a European Startup Eldorado?). The event, which already was the biggest in Europe with around 4’000 attendees for 2 days, has now more than doubled in size with more than 10’000 people among the smartest minds…
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Meet 8 promising startups from Switzerland!
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only an often necessary milestone to grow faster and which may lead to success). But the point is that there are a lot of entrepreneurs out there building interesting tech startups. On November 4th, 8 of them will have an opportunity to present their concept! I’m organizing the 2nd ICT Investors Day in Western Switzerland, at Chambre Vaudoise…
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Hot or not: top 10 European's startup capitals. And Switzerland?
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its selection of the 10 hottest startup capitals in Europe. London, Berlin, Paris and Stockholm are on the map, of course. Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Barcelona are also there. More surprising (no, it’s not really a surprise for me) are Moscow, Helsinki and Istanbul in the top 10. Yes, Moscow is a startup capital, with a large…
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What are you doing end of October?
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As Summer is quietly over, the season of startup conferences is starting again. Of course, as an entrepreneur, you cannot go to every conference and you have to select carefully where you would like to invest your time. Because as well as you can do (extremely) interesting contacts for the future of your business, most of…
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Seize the opportunity to meet transmedia rockstars!
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End of September (27-28-29), Lausanne will welcome a unique event gathering the digital, cultural and creative industry from Switzerland… and beyond. X Media Lab organizes an event on Transmedia, which is, according to superstar Jeff Gomez (transmedia producer for Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Halo, Men in Black III, Hotwheels, Transformers) “the vanguard process of…
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Showcase your startup – demonstrate #Swisspower!
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Blend Web Mix. More than 900 entrepreneurs, designers, investors and marketers will gather to listen 80 speakers. Successful and famous (well, most Swiss founders probably don’t know their name I guess) entrepreneurs like Renaud Visage (cofounder & CTO of Eventbrite), Thibaud Elzière (serial entrepreneur, notably Fotolia), Olivier Mathiot (cofounder of Price Minister) and many more will share their…
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Meet 50 startups in Lausanne!
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FORUM EPFL (a recruiting fair organized by a dynamic student organization). Idea is to startups recruit their next employees and show students that startups are a viable career path. On October 10th, a special keynote will take place (with me speaking about “Why to start-up”) and with a successful serial entrepreneur sharing his startup stories…
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De Vigier Award ceremony, with Nick Hayek!
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De Vigier foundation organizes its award ceremony in Solothurn. This foundation was created by the famous William A. de Vigier to support young entrepreneurs on their way to success. This edition was the last year as president of Moritz Suter (you know, the business man who founded Crossair). To celebrate the end of his engagement…