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    Discover the 10 (+26) startups from Seedstars World Competiton

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    Sébastien Flury

    6 degrees (Singapore) is a connected, self-updatingphonebook that helps you search your friends’ networks, get introductions to new people, shops & businesses. Busportal (Lima, Peru) is a online tool helping customers to find, compare and buy bus tickets in Latin America in a efficient way. Krowdpop (Seoul, South Korea) is the world’s first concert crowd…

  • Share this post and win a FREE ticket to Lift Conference 2015!

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    Sébastien Flury

    The Lift Conference in Switzerland. 2015 is already the 10th edition of this international conference, where 1’000 people from around the globe gather in Geneva to experiment innovations, learn about new business models and get inspiration. The 3-day conference is a lot about connecting with people, learning new things and being creative (you’ll leave the…

  • Web Summit 2014 – Wrap Up

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    Sébastien Flury

    who cares? Shouldn’t be a startup global citizenship from day 1 »?), like WiCard, Unono, Bookbedder, Prodibi, Fitaborate, iRewind, Swispon Corp, PrYv,  mobino, Konduko, Shoreli, etc. And probably a lot more that I’ve missed (if you were there and I haven’t mentioned you – please add your startup in the comments)! I’m curious to listen to…

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

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    Sébastien Flury

    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.…

  • Discover the Swiss startup national team 2014!

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    Sébastien Flury

    venturelab and Swissnex are announcing their selection of 20 entrepreneurs who will represent Switzerland in Boston and New York in June. The selection was based both on the quality of the project and its business potential and on the personality of the entrepreneur. The “Swiss startup national team 2014” will have a first appearance on…

  • Stand up for one of the smartest startup guy in Switzerland: Beat Schillig!

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    Sébastien Flury

    On March 9th, an article was published on Zürich-based Sonntagszeitung, surprisingly attacking the founder and CEO of famous Institut für Jungunternehmen (you can find the whole story here – in German). IFJ is a company that Beat founded 13 years ago and which won the public tender in 2004 to launch the federal entrepreneur education program venturelab (were…

  • Why to start up?

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    Sébastien Flury

    Maximilian for this comment!). For a networker as I am… what a shame ;-)! Or maybe it’s because I’ve internalized it so deeply that I didn’t noticed it was not necessary natural for every one ;-)? So basically, regarding networking… you need to invest in your network right now. Help others. Bring value. Don’t think…

  • Hot or not: top 10 European's startup capitals. And Switzerland?

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    Sébastien Flury

    its selection of the 10 hottest startup capitals in Europe. London, Berlin, Paris and Stockholm are on the map, of course. Tel Aviv, Amsterdam and Barcelona are also there. More surprising (no, it’s not really a surprise for me) are Moscow, Helsinki and Istanbul in the top 10. Yes, Moscow is a startup capital, with a large…

  • How can I help?

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    Sébastien Flury

    Both sides of the Table. BTW, you should definitely follow him if you’re an entrepreneur! Mark had a great post last week named Why you should give before you get. And Brad Feld, entrepreneur, angel and VC that you’ve certainly have heard about, even made “give before you get” his life motto. It sounds to be…

  • Hardworking sunny holidays

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    Sébastien Flury

    If you’ve not planned anything and were planning to continue hardworking, you may consider SunnyStartup, a 15 days bootcamp in Marrakech (!) to boost your project. Or have new ideas. Or simply to learn lot of things. Surrounded by IT, design, communication and marketing professionals, among other one by the famous Bill Carney (entrepreneur, marketing guru and…