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Build your Minimum Viable Product in 3 weeks… and get early funding!
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A new interesting early stage startup support program was launched a few weeks ago and will probably attract a lot of wannabe entrepreneurs: the International Create Challenge (OK, the name isn’t so sexy, but keep reading!). This challenge is taking place in September 2012 in Martigny and is started by “Idiap Research Institute” and the…
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Discover 17 venture leaders, who build cutting-edge startups!
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Tuesday afternoon has seen the first public appearance of the “Swiss Startup nationa team”, selected by the Switzerland-wide entrepreneurship education program venturelab. These 20 founders will travel to Boston early June and have the chance to present to US VC’s, meet US startups and many more other cool stuff. Here they are: STAFF FINDER is…
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Wake up, warm up… JURA startup!
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This weekend was the first edition of Startup Weekend Jura, taking place in a crazy location: a wellness center! Around 50 people were participating to this event and not less than 23 ideas were presented on Friday night to the crew (just 60 seconds to tell what’s your idea, why you think there’s a great…
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What we still need to change (in Switzerland)
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Earlier this week, I talked with a journalist inviting me to a radio debate… unfortunately, this was finally postponed due to more important news. But he asked me what I think about the swiss startup ecosystem: Is it going in the right direction? Do I feel something happening? What do we still lack? I gave…
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Why you should register for The Founder Institute… NOW!
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The Founder Institute Bootcamp took place last night in Bern, at Swisscom Innovation offices. Initial thought that Steffen Wagner and Jasper Bouwsma, initiators of FI in Switzerland, had some months ago was: “Switzerland does well… OK, but does it well enough?” Switzerland is on top for innovation and has a lot of support programs for…
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Startup Weekend Jura – amazing opportunity to work on (your) startup project!
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First Startup Weekend Jura will take place on 11th to 13th May in Saignelégier. This event will be the first of this kind to take place outside of a city, at least in Switzerland. The concept of the event is dead simple: from Friday to Sunday night you’ll have the opportunity to work on an…
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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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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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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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Swiss Mobile Basecamp #1
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First mobile base camp took place on Wednesday at Swisscom office. Around 100 people, from which a good 80% were working in startups, attended the event. Morten Grauballe explained the story and challenges faced by his company, Red Bend. An interesting point was when he discussed about standards and recommended not to reinvent the wheel.…