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Where to get the skills you need for your startup journey
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Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI – the federal agency of Switzerland) has decided in 2012 to split the national training program into regional programs, supervised by CTI… As well as the academic entrepreneurial programs (venture ideas and venture challenge) are still managed by venturelab, the formerly called Venture Plan program has stopped in 2012. Thanks to the…
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Hack finance at Open Data Camp!
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Opendata.ch, the national chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation, invites every developer, designer and innovator to its hack days on finance, procurement, budgets and material worth taking place on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd of March. The hack days will happen in two locations (each will welcome at least 50 participants): Bern and Sierre. Everyone…
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Recruit fresh hungry talents at Start-up Day!
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Shortage of start-up talents in Switzerland (and everywhere, maybe except in big startup hubs) is widely known. Fortunately, as the startup spirit is growing in Switzerland, high schools have understood this and several initiatives have been launched to help startups recruit among young graduates. In Lausanne, the students association «Forum EPFL» (for my readers outside…
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Grab the opportunity to dive into Berlin's startup scene
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More and more, Berlin is seen as one of the most vibrant european startup scene. And it’s true: things are moving fast there! My fellow blogger Adelina invited me to a new kind of conference – Tech Open Air Berlin Festival – taking place on August 23rd & 24th. TOA is an innovative summer festival…
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Is Switzerland starting up? (long version)
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Here’s the long version of my guest post published on the NEXT Berlin official website last Friday. Switzerland is often ignored from famous tech blogs as TechCrunch or the likes. As a consequence, most people outside Switzerland just ignore what is going on here. Of course, it’s not – yet – like Silicon Valley or…
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My thoughts on LeWeb’11
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Around 6 weeks that LeWeb’11 is over… Again, more than 3’000 participants, worldclass speakers including Eric Schmidt or Karl Lagerfeld. Why is this event so successful ? You can say it’s now too big to be really worthful. But I think it really depends on what you’re looking for. You have to set up some objectives…