Startup
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Win CHF 10'000.- for your Fintech Startup
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this and this post). Of course, because Switzerland (in a whole) is one of the biggest financial hubs in the world. And things are moving, and it’s great to see this happening! A few ago, a new fintech association is born, namely Swiss FinteCH. This new organization came out of the Fintech Meetups Zürich and…
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Win a startup trip to Tel Aviv
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Startup Manifesto to transform Switzerland into a real Startup Nation, initated by the association Le Réseau. It is still a long way to go to have a mature startup ecosystem in Switzerland (talking about web and mobile companies, not life sciences). The advantage is that Swiss startups know from day 1 that they need to…
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Time for a break, no?
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Everyone wants to get things done before the holiday season (so they can free their mind and find a clean desk back from vacations); People tend to be tired, if not exhausted. Therefore, less patient and potentially more aggressive. So June is not that a good month for business. July and August? Even worse, or…
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Apply to Fintech Fusion: #1 Swiss fintech acceleration program!
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Banks Mountains Watches Chocolate Less known for the quality of its startups, even if Switzerland is one of the most innovative country according to the Global Innovation Index (it’s probably not the right metric, but that’s another debate). And even less for fintech. Right now. Fintech is getting very hype everywhere and we feel it…
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Experiencing MoneyConf
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Back to MoneyConf : more than 1,200 people came from 50 different countries. Mostly fromIreland and UK, but also from allo over Europe, as it can be seen on the following picture. The conference also gathered something as 120 speakers and 40 startups, among which 22 went on stage to pitch the jury (comprised of Rob…
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If my kids become entrepreneurs… by Laurent Haug
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Laurent Haug hold a presentation at an entrepreneurship school on what he learned during his 20 years as an entrepreneur. Laurent is a Swiss entrepreneur, who notably sold his startup (CoComment) to Swisscom in 2006 and started the famous Lift Conference (#1 innovation conference in Switzerland) 10 years ago. His motto is to « help people…
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12 startup learnings and advice
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city village). To my big surprise, there were only German-speaking attendees (Biel/Bienne is the only true bilingual city in Switzerland (65-70% German-speaking, 30-35% French speaking) and only one woman present. The latter point doesn’t surprise me that much, however. Tech startups are mostly (and unfortunately) a « man-thing ». It’s the reality, even though I had the…
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Meet 8 promising Swiss startups on May 11th
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SICTIC Investor Day is taking place in Lausanne (15 of such events already happened in Zürich). The jury, comprised of Pierre Bordry (Capital Proximité), Alexandre Peyraud (aleCent), Pierre-Jean Wipff (Innovaud) and Sal Matteis (entrepreneur and investor), had a hard time selecting the best 8 startups that will have the opportunity to pitch. 22 high qualitative…