innovation
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The Waking Up of FinTech in Switzerland
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advantage is definitely over. And that they are now forced to innovate, if they want to continue to compete with financial hotspots like New York, London or Singapore. To demonstrate the economic importance of the Swiss financial center in the country, here are 3 key numbers (source: SwissBanking): 105’000+ jobs 6’136 billions in assets under…
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Biel/Bienne is back on the Swiss startup map!
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Swiss Tech Association, which has the goal to foster entrepreneurship and networking across Switzerland. The first initiative of the association was to launch an event serie named Swiss Tech Talk. After successfully testing the concept in Fribourg, the association is extending across (Western by now) Switzerland, with Biel/Bienne, Neuchâtel, Geneva and Sion. Each of this city…
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SALES: the challenges of selling your product as a startup
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It has been quite a long time without any post from me… I hope you haven’t missed me too much! I’ve been extremely busy these last weeks with travelling (music summit in Ibiza, the Venture Leader trip) and so on… But I’m back again to blogging! I’ve been thinking a lot about sales in the last…
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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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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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The internet of energy
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an electrical grid that uses information and communications technology to gather and act on information, such as information about the behaviors of suppliers and consumers, in an automated fashion to improve the efficiency, reliability, economics, and sustainability of the production and distribution of electricity. Innovation in cleantech has been discussed so much these last years, but without…
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It's time to lift up your startup!
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Once a year, more than 1’000 people from every corner of Switzerland and abroad gather in Geneva for 3 days at Lift Conference. In contrary to purely startup events like Next Berlin, Dublin Web Summit or LeWeb, Lift is also focusing its efforts on discovering new trends and helping you to transform them into opportunities.…