Switzerland

  • Last days to register for CHF 100'000.-!

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    Sébastien Flury

    Yearly since 1987, the W.A. De Vigier foundation awards 5 innovative startup companies with CHF 100’000.00 (à fonds perdus). Which is really not bad for a startup! You can…

  • Discover the 10 startups awarded by De Vigier Foundation

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    Sébastien Flury

    2012 is the 25th anniversary of the creation of De Vigier Foundation, which aims to foster entrepreneurship in Switzerland. Bill De Vigier was a successful swiss entrepreneur, who was…

  • Discover 17 venture leaders, who build cutting-edge startups!

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    Sébastien Flury

    Tuesday afternoon has seen the first public appearance of the “Swiss Startup nationa team”, selected by the Switzerland-wide entrepreneurship education program venturelab. These 20 founders will travel to Boston…

  • Is Switzerland starting up? (long version)

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    Sébastien Flury

    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…

  • Unique (swiss) opportunity to pitch VC's

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    Sébastien Flury

    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…

  • How a little Switzerland-based startup is beating Flipboard

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    Sébastien Flury

    Did you remember the startup sobees, which orginally built a better social desktop aggregator than trend follower Seesmic or Tweetdeck? sobees was also the first company in the world…

  • Lausanne's startup scene is heating up!

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    Sébastien Flury

    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…

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    DeinDeal.ch Launches an e-Commerce Incubator

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    Sébastien Flury

    Adrian Locher, one of the 3 co-founders of the Swiss daily deal platform DeinDeal.ch, presented his company and announced a new incubation program during Swiss Startup Camp 2012 Saturday…

  • Swiss Mobile Basecamp #1

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    Sébastien Flury

    First mobile base camp took place on Wednesday at Swisscom office. Around 100 people, from which a good 80% were working in startups, attended the event. Morten Grauballe explained…

  • My First Steps on Swiss Startup Scene

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    Sébastien Flury

    Biel/Bienne, I moved to Lausanne to study business at HEC and finalized my Master abroad, in German city Karlsruhe. There, I discovered my entrepreneurial mind in an interesting –…