Switzerland
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De Vigier Award ceremony, with Nick Hayek!
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De Vigier foundation organizes its award ceremony in Solothurn. This foundation was created by the famous William A. de Vigier to support young entrepreneurs on their way to success. This edition was the last year as president of Moritz Suter (you know, the business man who founded Crossair). To celebrate the end of his engagement…
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The Swiss Ice Hockey national team – a role model
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It’s an authentic exploit for Switzerland and will remain in mind of everyone during years… or not. Because what we have been able to observe is a deep mentality change. Some years ago, everyone would have been more than happy with a quarter final. This year, everyone is disappointed not having won the gold medal!…
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Don’t know any female entrepreneurs from Switzerland ? Now you do.
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It’s a coincidence this week that the 2 posts published on startupolic are on women in tech… as you’ve probably seen my post on Wednesday about Lady Pitch Night happening in Paris in April. Most of us, startup founders, has already seen that tech entrepreneurship is rather populated with men. We could debate the reasons, but…
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Does Switzerland exist on the European tech startup scene? (Part III)
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After one week interruption (sorry for that), I have the pleasure to publish the third post of the serie (you can read Part I and Part II). Dimitris Kalogeropoulos, an engaged Greek blogger that I’ve met last year at Next Berlin, is sharing his thoughts today about Swiss startups. I have to be honest here;…
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Does Switzerland exist on the European tech startup scene? (Part II)
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Part I). You’ll find in this second post the impression of Fred Zimny, a Dutch blogger specialized in services design and management. The Next Berlin 2013 event was the trigger for an Internet encounter with Sébastien. He wonders if Switzerland really exists on the European tech start-up scene. He is investigating how Switzerland is seen from an outside, neutral perspective.…
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Does Switzerland exist on the European tech startup scene? (Part I)
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Global Innovation ranking index puts Switzerland at the first place worldwide, but how relevant is this index? You have to know that it is based on the number of patents regarding to the country population. Maybe it’s a good indicator of patentable innovation like in pharma, mechanics, etc. But what’s about the ICT sector? By…
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It's time to lift up your startup!
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Once a year, more than 1’000 people from every corner of Switzerland and abroad gather in Geneva for 3 days at Lift Conference. In contrary to purely startup events like Next Berlin, Dublin Web Summit or LeWeb, Lift is also focusing its efforts on discovering new trends and helping you to transform them into opportunities.…
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Ireland – a European startup eldorado?
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As you already know, I had the chance to attend Dublin Web Summit mid-October and I’m going to share what I’ve learnt and experienced there. First, DWS is probably the best tech startup event in Europe (OK, I haven’t been to all of them – I’ve also heard lot of good comments on Pioneer Festival).…
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Swiss investors start to think mobile!
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In tech industry, it’s traditional to observe massive disruptive change. Before the rise of internet, the tech cycle time was often lasting decades. Change cycle times are happening more and more often. The last one was the web 2.0, also called the social web. You also hear web 3.0 for some years. It’s not a…