Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
I thought about the common wisdom that only 20-year olds doing Internet startups could be agile. Since the first part of the lecture was about Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas, Osterwalder flew in from Switzerland to teach slides 20-76. Some incubators would have labeled this group too old to be entrepreneurs.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
DFINITY and its Internet Computer (IC) blockchain have the infrastructure and tools to lower the barriers of entry for the general public. Introducing DFINITY and the Internet Computer Blockchain. Founded in 2016, DFINITY has become the major contributor to the Internet Computer blockchain project. Reverse gas model.
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YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Most of society’s big innovations – from the internet and email to DNA sequencing and solar energy – were created within organizations (and not by entrepreneurs) in which leadership did not particularly ask for or encourage innovation. Consider a bridge built in Laufenburg, a town that straddles Germany and Switzerland. Conclusion.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. One partnership was clearly very divided and a vocal minority of GPs thought consumer internet companies were a massive waste of time and money. Thanks from switzerland, Nice story! Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). link] leehower.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 10, 2010
During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK. I ran a team of 14 people (12 Japanese, 1 German and 1 Turk … both of whom were fluent in Japanese) who produced an Internet strategy for the board of Sony. It was not a touristy experience.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 15, 2010
I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings. One in particular was in Switzerland and working for the telco there on a “death march&# project for which several of my friends were already complaining.
Growthink Blog
AUGUST 29, 2010
In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Since the great “financial crisis” of 2008-2009, the firm’s clientele – really without us even trying – has becoming increasingly global. So from 95%+ U.S.
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