start-up
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A new opportunity to pitch your startup in Lausanne!
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ICT Investors Day. Already run successfully 8 times in Zürich (I’ve blogged about the June event last year), the pitching opportunity is different from all other ones: It is exclusively dedicated to ICT (in a large sense – electronics is OK), which means you have a qualified audience (people who understand the area). Participation is…
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It's time to plan your trip… to Berlin!
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NEXT BERLIN 2013… which is special for me, as it was the first conference I attended as a blogger, last year! Next is one of the leading European tech conferences, and probably the biggest in Germany. The conference’s main theme is, as you’ve already guessed with it’s name, “what’s next?”. Many technology and business trends…
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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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HOW TO Make The Perfect Pitch (Part III/III)
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first and second post, give them a look! This week, we’ll discuss more about soft skills (or Emotional Intelligence Quotient). But maybe some of you have never heard of what soft skills are, According to Wikipedia, they are behavioral competencies, which are also known as interpersonal skills, or people skills, which include proficiencies such as…
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Discover the 10 startups awarded by De Vigier Foundation
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2012 is the 25th anniversary of the creation of De Vigier Foundation, which aims to foster entrepreneurship in Switzerland. Bill De Vigier was a successful swiss entrepreneur, who was the man who revolutionized the building industry worldwide. The foundation created by Mr. De Vigier has one unique goal: foster entrepreneurship and bring a bit of…
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HOW TO Make The Perfect Pitch (Part I/III)
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Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier (who I’d like to thank for his energy at helping Swiss startups and what he taught me) in mind, I thought that some tips on how to pitch your startup could be helpful. I’ve also recently observed that the need for pitch coaching/training is really present, for first time entrepreneurs as well as…
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8 web startup unveiling the Blue Lion Incubator in Zürich
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Monday was time for the 6th ICT Investor Day, organized by Business Angel Switzerland‘s president Jan Fülscher. The concept is rather interesting: 8 startup pitch their idea in 90 seconds (with or without slides), and investor’s crew then select the 4 ones they’d like to see in 7 minutes presentation. Host of the event was…
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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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Startup competition @NEXT12: discover the 12 finalists
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As every good tech conference, NEXT Berlin hosted a startup competition. The 12 finalists (selected among 800) presented Tuesday afternoon to a mixed jury panel componed of investors like Charlie O’Donnell, Patrick Meisberger or TechCrunch Europe editor Mike Butcher. Flakka is a startup developing a P2P (peer-2-peer) technology to synchronize functionalities across devices (rather than…