Startup
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10 days left before START Summit!
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End of next week on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th, the student association START from University of St. Gallen is organizing a 2-days startup conference. More than 400 students, founders and investors from 18 countries will gather to listen to big names of the tech scene like Klaus Hommels or Morten Lund. Workshops, speed-pitching and…
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Let's save the Erasmus exchange program!
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here). One of the first negative effect of this decision taken by a tiny majority of Swiss citizen is the freezing by European Union of the Erasmus student exchange program. It’s a really bad news for Swiss students. I was an Erasmus student in 2004-2005, and I can only give evidence of the benefit of…
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Switzerland needs a startup visa. NOW!
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Switzerland is not part of the European Union (Switzerland rejected it in 1992). As well as the country is politically independent, Swiss economy is massively oriented on exportation and therefore, has strong links with countries of Europe. Swiss government has done a pretty good job in negotiating win-win agreements with EU and in 2002, Switzerland…
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Entrepreneurs… Beware!
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Coteries. As everything in life, what is paying is to be proactive. You are contacting investors to present them your investment opportunity. Sometimes, you have people contacting you (after a press coverage or so – yes, it happens even in Switzerland!). But I’ve also experienced some really, really strange things 2 weeks ago. I got…
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Startup events you cannot miss early February
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Venture Night, gathering 8 Swiss startups). But this year, there are 2 new, startup-oriented, events happening alongside Lift Conference. You cannot afford to miss these 2 new events if you’re interested by startups. Here they are! SEEDSTARS WORLD On 4th of February, it will be the grand final of this worldwide startup competition, which took…
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What is a Business Angel and where to find them (Part II)
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Business Angels Suisse How: 3 dinner meetings per month, on Wednesday (2nd of the month in Zürich, 3rd in Lausanne / 2nd Thursday in Lake Constance). 3-4 startups per meeting are invited to pitch their startup. Industries: all industries Portfolio: 78 startups financed so far (and around 30 where angels invested outside of the club)…
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What is a Business Angel and where to find them (Part I)
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Why taking money from your family and friends is a bad idea) and I’ll present here another segment of investors active in the startup world: business angel (or also called angel investor or simply angel). But what is a business angel? The term is often over used or over dreamt. An angel is a wealthy individual investing…
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A great news for Swiss startup scene!
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SublimeVideo, has been bought by video platform giant DailyMotion. The amount of the transaction has not yet been disclosed and seems to be both an acquisition of technology and talents. You can find more about the announcement here. The core team behind Lausanne-based startup Jilion started to work together long ago, in 2007. The initial project…