start-up
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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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Unique (swiss) opportunity to pitch VC's
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A wonderful opportunity for swiss tech startups will take place on Wednesday 23rd May 2012 in Lausanne: the Swiss Venture Forum (SVF) The event will allow the most promising Life Sciences, Clean Technology and Information Communication Technology entrepreneurs from Switzerland to meet and pitch active international investors and corporations. 30-40 early stage companies from Switzerland…
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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”…
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7 (+1) startups presenting at The Hub Zurich
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On Monday, I attended the 5th ICT Investor Day in coworking space The Hub Zürich, organized by Swiss ICT. First, an institutional investor can present its company and this time, it was c-crowd, a crowdfunding platform started in 2011 in Zürich. Concept is to leverage internet to get a plenty of private investors, who can…
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Venture Night @Lift Conference: 8 startup pitching!
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AlpICT Venture Night took place Thursday evening at Lift Conference in Geneva. Successful entrepreneur Christian Wanner, founder and CEO of online supermarket LeShop, pitched quickly about the journey of his venture. He started in the web early days, in 1997, at 27. He and his team experienced the entrepreneurial rollercoaster so extremely that he was…
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10 promising mobile startups from Switzerland
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Discover 10 swiss mobile start-up that have taken part to the competition during first Swiss Mobile Basecamp in January! DidThis, formerly known as Quantter, is a startup mixing the world of micro-blogging, self-tracking and business intelligence. They’ve built an application ” to spread actions”. You can start a trend and… change the world. DidThis guess…