Startup
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Fostering Swiss startup scene: for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs!
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Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation) and regional level (launched by technology parks, cities or cantons). The major problem (if any), is that all of these programs are often managed and powered by non-entrepreneurs. Of course, you don’t need to be entrepreneur to be smart. But once you have a bit of startup experience, you…
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Why taking money from your family or your friends is a bad idea
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Founders Family Friends Fools Foundations Family Offices The fools are wealthy individuals who are ready to invest in your project quite irrationally – or are they the real superstars of a startup ecosystem, because they have guts to fund a team of other fools (entrepreneurs are hungry and foolish, as Steve Jobs greatly said years…
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My meeting with one of the smartest startup actor in the world: Mark Suster
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End of October, I had the chance to participate to the Dublin Web Summit. The event has grown up to reach around 10’000 attendees, and yes, it was extremely crowded and it was tough to get a seat at least to see the talks of the prominent speakers. And being online was just impossible for…
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Welcome to the "Grand Bazaar" of startups
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For the second year, I’m attending Dublin Web Summit these days (I’ve written about it last year: Ireland – a European Startup Eldorado?). The event, which already was the biggest in Europe with around 4’000 attendees for 2 days, has now more than doubled in size with more than 10’000 people among the smartest minds…
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Meet 8 promising startups from Switzerland!
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only an often necessary milestone to grow faster and which may lead to success). But the point is that there are a lot of entrepreneurs out there building interesting tech startups. On November 4th, 8 of them will have an opportunity to present their concept! I’m organizing the 2nd ICT Investors Day in Western Switzerland, at Chambre Vaudoise…
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Why to start up?
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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…
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Hot or not: top 10 European's startup capitals. And Switzerland?
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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…
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What are you doing end of October?
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As Summer is quietly over, the season of startup conferences is starting again. Of course, as an entrepreneur, you cannot go to every conference and you have to select carefully where you would like to invest your time. Because as well as you can do (extremely) interesting contacts for the future of your business, most of…
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Seize the opportunity to meet transmedia rockstars!
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End of September (27-28-29), Lausanne will welcome a unique event gathering the digital, cultural and creative industry from Switzerland… and beyond. X Media Lab organizes an event on Transmedia, which is, according to superstar Jeff Gomez (transmedia producer for Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Halo, Men in Black III, Hotwheels, Transformers) “the vanguard process of…
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Showcase your startup – demonstrate #Swisspower!
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Blend Web Mix. More than 900 entrepreneurs, designers, investors and marketers will gather to listen 80 speakers. Successful and famous (well, most Swiss founders probably don’t know their name I guess) entrepreneurs like Renaud Visage (cofounder & CTO of Eventbrite), Thibaud Elzière (serial entrepreneur, notably Fotolia), Olivier Mathiot (cofounder of Price Minister) and many more will share their…