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    Financing Your Startup: Use the Power of the Crowd

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    Financing your startup: use the power of the crowd » in Biel/Bienne. It will take place at the local technology park INNOCAMPUS (it’s 5min walk from train station!). We will have two speakers presenting 2 aspects of the crowd-funding: Julien Pache: Managing Director of the participative investment platform investiere.ch; Marie-Sophie Pocha: responsible of crowd-funding and special…

  • Western Switzerland startup scene is lively – discover 8 ICT startups

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    ICT Investors Day in Western Switzerland (happening on May 12th in Lausanne), we will have 8 startups (duly selected by a jury committee comprising Deep Parekh, Patrick Barbey, Philipp Steinberger, Pierre Bordry and Alexandre Peyraud) competing with an elevator pitch of 90 seconds to win a seat in the final, that is, presenting their concept longer.…

  • What is a Business Angel and where to find them (Part II)

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    Business Angels Suisse How: 3 dinner meetings per month, on Wednesday (2nd of the month in Zürich, 3rd in Lausanne / 2nd Thursday in Lake Constance). 3-4 startups per meeting are invited to pitch their startup. Industries: all industries Portfolio: 78 startups financed so far (and around 30 where angels invested outside of the club)…

  • What is a Business Angel and where to find them (Part I)

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    Why taking money from your family and friends is a bad idea) and I’ll present here another segment of investors active in the startup world: business angel (or also called angel investor or simply angel). But what is a business angel? The term is often over used or over dreamt. An angel is a wealthy individual investing…

  • 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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    21 ICT startups to meet on June, 18th

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    Scientific Park. There are also big names of the industry to find there (Samsung, Nokia, Logitech, to name a few). On June, 18th, Lausanne will welcome for the second time a one day-event gathering selected tech startups from the Alpine region (from southern France to South Germany) and investors from around the world. The Alpine…

  • Discover 8 web & mobile startups on 13th of May!

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    ICT Investors Day in Romandie will take place. Kindly hosted by Debiopharm Group, the event will start at 17:00 (door opening at 16:30). Event is open to anyone interested by startups… but especially if you are investing in startups! You can register until 11th of May, so hurry up to secure your seat now! 8 web…

  • A new opportunity to pitch your startup in Lausanne!

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    ICT Investors Day. Already run successfully 8 times in Zürich (I’ve blogged about the June event last year), the pitching opportunity is different from all other ones: It is exclusively dedicated to ICT (in a large sense – electronics is OK), which means you have a qualified audience (people who understand the area). Participation is…

  • 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…

  • 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…