innovation
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Startups on fire!
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The first edition of Startup Weekend in Neuchâtel took place from Friday to Sunday at the new HE-Arc campus. Around 80 innovative guys participated to this event, 34 ideas were pitched and finally 11 teams presented their project to the public and a 7-people jury (which I had the honor to be part of). According…
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7 new laws for a world gone digital
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Velocity is a book written by Ajaz Ahmed (Founder of AKQA) and Stefan Olander (Vice President of Digital Sport at Nike), who experienced the rapid changes in digital technology and how they had to evolve in their businesses to adapt. The speed at which we are all having to adapt and change as technology drives our…
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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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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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Save the planet! Now you really can make an impact…
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Carbon offsetting has become mainstream during the last few years. Nobody can argue that human beeing has not made a negative impact on the climate, shown up by all changes and natural catastrophes happening on an almost daily basis. Citizen around the globe are joining force to fight this climate change, as politics mostly fail…
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New seed financing opportunity in Switzerland
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This Tuesday, I’ve attended for the first time the “Investor Lunch”, from CTI Invest, in Zürich. The event is restricted to CTI Invest members, which I have the chance to be through the company I’m working for (Creapole), and aims to gather the investors regularly in order to grow the community and enhance collaborations. A…
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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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Meet a serial investor & entrepreneur from Zürich
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Martin Saidler, serial entrepreneur and investor, is back to Switzerland for around 2 years and is one of the rare investor in the region who will only invest in internet startups (or at least, who is publicly claiming it). Mr. Saidler was successful in Berlin and then in Eastern Europe, where he had up to…
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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”…