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Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here. MORE
Example - Switzerland has 129 different bilateral trade accords with the EU, but must accept free movement of people and still pays fees to the EU. MORE
The results were revealed today by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre , which participated in the international biennial research project initiated by the Swiss Research Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Switzerland’s University of St. MORE
I’m paraphrasing a bit, but it goes something like this: He was driving through the countryside of Switzerland, and for miles all he saw on the side of the road, was rows of trees. “Be Bold or Italic, never Regular”?—?anonymous. anonymous. MORE
In countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland, being on time shows you are serious, committed and that the relationship with your buyer is important. By Martin Limbeck, “ NO is Short for Next Opportunity: How Top Sales Professionals Think “. MORE
Every year, world leaders from both the public and private sector, meet at Davos Switzerland to discuss the biggest issues facing our society at the World Economic Forum. MORE
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. MORE
Creativity and Self-Expression Innovation Politics & Government Trends, Futurism, and Research Alcatel-Lucent Booz and Company Chile China Confederation of Indian Industry Creativity Demark economics Finland Global Innovation Index Greece Gregg Fraley INSEAD Lithuania Moldova Sweden Switzerland UK United Nations USA World Intellectual Property Organization MORE
In spite constantly catching global attention as far as quality of life, safety and being a forerunner in the pharmaceutical field for many years is concerned, Switzerland’s role as an entrepreneur hub has mostly been overlooked. MORE
Last week, several jurisdictions moved to classify cryptoassets, with a bill passing the Wyoming House of Representatives defining utility tokens (which would not be subject to securities regulations) and Switzerland also delineating three categories of tokens: securities (tokens that function as investments); utilities (access to services on a platform that already exists); and payments (which would be subject to anti-money laundering laws). MORE
Julien Denaes (Switzerland). Applications are open for the second group of Colorado Global Entrepreneurs in Residence. If you are interested in applying send a resume and a cover letter, including a statement of interest, to GEIR-apply@colorado.edu. The Global Entrepreneurs in Residence (GEIR) Program brings international entrepreneurial talent to the CU-Boulder campus and community. MORE
February 4th will see some of the best upcoming startups from around the world congregate in Geneva, Switzerland to determine the winner for the Seedstars World Final competition. MORE
While these movements spooked investors, I spent a few days in Zug, Switzerland, the heart of “Crypto Valley” to meet with blockchain entrepreneurs and local investors. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, famously chose Zug as Ethereum Foundation’s HQ based on Switzerland’s favorable regulatory environment at the time. Cryptocurrencies lost over $250B of value last week as more regulators around the world issued guidance. MORE
Collective entrepreneurship is epitomized in female entrepreneur Lisa Chuma, who created the Women’s Expo shortly after immigrating to Switzerland. A displaced Kansan, she currently resides in Switzerland with her husband and daughter. MORE
Another cloud service panelists found impressive was Switzerland-based Koemei , which transcribes online video and audio. Entrepreneurs demonstrating their latest ideas at the EMO Spring 2012 conference showed that inspiration travels in many directions. MORE
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. Over the last two months the U.S. MORE
“ DealMarket has been designed by private equity professionals for private equity professionals,&# says DealMarket co-founder and CEO Celine Fillistorf, who hails from Zurich, Switzerland. MORE
Fourteen years later, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with over 10,000 people around the world in locations such as New York, Sydney, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Tobago, Delhi, Switzerland and France. MORE
Some say we should arm our teachers like they do in Israel or Switzerland. father mother parenting connecticut shootings gun regulation Israel mental health mental illness Switzerland Whitehouse.govI try not to get too political on my blog, but sometimes an event happens like the killing of 20 six and seven year old kids by a mentally unstable individual, who had access to a semi-automatic gun, that compels me to write something. MORE
My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. MORE
When foreigners think of Switzerland, romantic images of beautiful snow peaked mountains, chocolate, watches, and cowbells come to mind. But startups and technology? Not so much. MORE
Background on Toblerone: Toblerone was started in Bern, Switzerland by Jean Tobler. The Matterhorn is a great symbol of Switzerland, and is said to possibly be the inspiration for the shape of the candy bar. “I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog. MORE
Though the startup was founded in Switzerland, the clothes were featured on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Innovation is often not coming up with a totally novel idea, but rather, taking an existing solution to a problem and using it to solve a similar problem in a different industry. MORE
This has already been proven to work, having already been executed in Switzerland. MORE
As he prepares for his annual visit to the WEF event in Davos, Switzerland, I caught up with Malcolm Frank, EVP, Strategy and Marketing of Cognizant on what he expects to hear. I hesitate to even provide a preview of MORE
My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. As I've had to answer this question so many times at this point, I thought I'd just save myself the time in the future and make a blogpost out of it. If you are going to apply to work for us at Liquid Labs, you have to speak German. MORE
SECA – the represnetative body for Switzerland private equity has LP and VC documentation templates, including models: [link] mplates.aspx. “The picture has nothing to do with this article” – but did it get your attention? MORE
The International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in its 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Israel in the 17th place among the world’s 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness. AcceloWeb Invest in Israel Israel Israel GDP Israel Unemployment SC Square Auto construction sectors Draft film investment promotion center lausanne switzerland Ltd UNEMPLOYMENT unemployment figure world competitiveness yearbook IMD MORE
He joined the company in 2014, after over more than a decade at SAP, including Managing Director of SAP Switzerland and Chief Operating Officer of the region DACH (Germany, Switzerland. Stephan Sieber took over as CEO of Unit4 in April. MORE
Quantesys (Switzerland) An un-calibrated algorithm allowing investors to turn behavioral anomalies into profitable investments. I hope you’ll join us on November 15 th at 5:30pm for the final Worldwide Investor Network event of the year. MORE
Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity. MORE
The Texas program will be this group’s first outpost in the US beyond their roots in Boston (this organization also operates in Mexico, Israel, Switzerland and the U.K.). MORE
If you’ve never experienced being the ‘Switzerland’ in a given conversation and think you might like it, there’s one more reason to make the Delta Model one of your go-to’s as a business person. by Andrea J. MORE
He has also been guest speaker at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School and at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. Antoine is originally from Zurich (Switzerland), and, with his family, has spent the past 18 years in Princeton, New Jersey. Also Available On. MORE
Germany’s NPR station interviewed me that same week, and dozens of articles flooded Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, the UK, and Canada within a week. MORE
At the age of 50, Samira Buchi left her small town Switzerland home to pursue her American dream. I was born in Switzerland but raised by a Mediterranean family. You would be wrong to think that nothing new can come from a person at 50 years. MORE
Any communities wondering how they can take advantage of blockchain in a big way could look to Zug, Switzerland, for advice. by Andi Simon, author of “ On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights “. Maybe you know all there is to know about blockchain technology. MORE
Switzerland: Analytical. If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative. MORE
You can travel abroad to countries like Brazil, Switzerland, and Australia; you can hope for admission to a selective and prestigious business school in the U.S.; Imagine you are an entrepreneur, and your business is tanking hard. MORE
Marc is Vice President for Innovation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also heads the Chair of Entrepreneurship & Technology Commercialization. MORE
My bet is that a startup will win this battle, one that is not burdened by legacy customers, one that can be Switzerland sitting on top of all of the other platforms, and one that will build real intelligence (using machine learning) with the data they are extracting from all other systems. I’ve written before about the competitive nature of SaaS and the amount of entrants in every category. MORE
We heard first-hand just how close it was that Facebook had considered locating its headquarters in Switzerland and how the Irish rallied and now host more than 400 jobs locally and growing. I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. MORE
Johannesburg, Microsoft Campus, 3012 William Nicol Dr. South Korea: Seoul live stream Seoul time delay Spain Barcelona, InfoJobs HQ, Numància, 46 6ª planta Barcelona, UXdna, InfoJobs, 3scale Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Madrid, 166 Calle de Velázquez Madrid, Lean Startup Circle Pamplona Santa Cruz de Tenerife Sweden: Gothenburg Uppsala Switzerland: Geneva Turkey: Istanbul, Özye?in MORE
While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking. This is a draft post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. While the words are his, I agree 100% with everything he is saying here. MORE
Switzerland Related Topics YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 15, 2018
In spite constantly catching global attention as far as quality of life, safety and being a forerunner in the pharmaceutical field for many years is concerned, Switzerland’s role as an entrepreneur hub has mostly been overlooked.
The Next Web
JANUARY 28, 2018
When foreigners think of Switzerland, romantic images of beautiful snow peaked mountains, chocolate, watches, and cowbells come to mind. But startups and technology? Not so much.
deal architect
JUNE 22, 2016
He joined the company in 2014, after over more than a decade at SAP, including Managing Director of SAP Switzerland and Chief Operating Officer of the region DACH (Germany, Switzerland. Stephan Sieber took over as CEO of Unit4 in April.
deal architect
JANUARY 9, 2017
As he prepares for his annual visit to the WEF event in Davos, Switzerland, I caught up with Malcolm Frank, EVP, Strategy and Marketing of Cognizant on what he expects to hear. I hesitate to even provide a preview of
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JULY 2, 2011
Creativity and Self-Expression Innovation Politics & Government Trends, Futurism, and Research Alcatel-Lucent Booz and Company Chile China Confederation of Indian Industry Creativity Demark economics Finland Global Innovation Index Greece Gregg Fraley INSEAD Lithuania Moldova Sweden Switzerland UK United Nations USA World Intellectual Property Organization
VC Cafe
JUNE 1, 2011
The International Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, in its 2011 World Competitiveness Yearbook ranked Israel in the 17th place among the world’s 59 leading economies in terms of competitiveness. AcceloWeb Invest in Israel Israel Israel GDP Israel Unemployment SC Square Auto construction sectors Draft film investment promotion center lausanne switzerland Ltd UNEMPLOYMENT unemployment figure world competitiveness yearbook IMD
entrepreMusings
DECEMBER 16, 2012
Some say we should arm our teachers like they do in Israel or Switzerland. father mother parenting connecticut shootings gun regulation Israel mental health mental illness Switzerland Whitehouse.govI try not to get too political on my blog, but sometimes an event happens like the killing of 20 six and seven year old kids by a mentally unstable individual, who had access to a semi-automatic gun, that compels me to write something.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 24, 2018
Any communities wondering how they can take advantage of blockchain in a big way could look to Zug, Switzerland, for advice. by Andi Simon, author of “ On the Brink: A Fresh Lens to Take Your Business to New Heights “. Maybe you know all there is to know about blockchain technology.
Hearpreneur
JANUARY 25, 2018
At the age of 50, Samira Buchi left her small town Switzerland home to pursue her American dream. I was born in Switzerland but raised by a Mediterranean family. You would be wrong to think that nothing new can come from a person at 50 years.
Mike Michalowicz
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
He has also been guest speaker at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School and at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. Antoine is originally from Zurich (Switzerland), and, with his family, has spent the past 18 years in Princeton, New Jersey. Also Available On.
Babbling VC
OCTOBER 13, 2017
My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Quantesys (Switzerland) An un-calibrated algorithm allowing investors to turn behavioral anomalies into profitable investments. I hope you’ll join us on November 15 th at 5:30pm for the final Worldwide Investor Network event of the year.
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 4, 2018
While these movements spooked investors, I spent a few days in Zug, Switzerland, the heart of “Crypto Valley” to meet with blockchain entrepreneurs and local investors. Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, famously chose Zug as Ethereum Foundation’s HQ based on Switzerland’s favorable regulatory environment at the time. Cryptocurrencies lost over $250B of value last week as more regulators around the world issued guidance.
crowdSPRING Blog
AUGUST 5, 2010
Background on Toblerone: Toblerone was started in Bern, Switzerland by Jean Tobler. The Matterhorn is a great symbol of Switzerland, and is said to possibly be the inspiration for the shape of the candy bar. “I’m In Logo Love” is a new series on the crowdSPRING blog.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 26, 2014
February 4th will see some of the best upcoming startups from around the world congregate in Geneva, Switzerland to determine the winner for the Seedstars World Final competition.
The Startup Magazine
JULY 20, 2017
Though the startup was founded in Switzerland, the clothes were featured on both Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Innovation is often not coming up with a totally novel idea, but rather, taking an existing solution to a problem and using it to solve a similar problem in a different industry.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 4, 2011
“ DealMarket has been designed by private equity professionals for private equity professionals,&# says DealMarket co-founder and CEO Celine Fillistorf, who hails from Zurich, Switzerland.
YoungUpstarts
MARCH 2, 2015
In countries such as Germany, Austria and Switzerland, being on time shows you are serious, committed and that the relationship with your buyer is important. By Martin Limbeck, “ NO is Short for Next Opportunity: How Top Sales Professionals Think “.
Babbling VC
OCTOBER 13, 2017
My experience with over 20 years in Germany now is that no matter how well someone speaks English, when it comes to the hard things, they prefer German when in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. As I've had to answer this question so many times at this point, I thought I'd just save myself the time in the future and make a blogpost out of it. If you are going to apply to work for us at Liquid Labs, you have to speak German.
VC Cafe
JULY 26, 2017
I’m paraphrasing a bit, but it goes something like this: He was driving through the countryside of Switzerland, and for miles all he saw on the side of the road, was rows of trees. “Be Bold or Italic, never Regular”?—?anonymous. anonymous.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
We heard first-hand just how close it was that Facebook had considered locating its headquarters in Switzerland and how the Irish rallied and now host more than 400 jobs locally and growing. I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year.
Cracking the Code
MAY 20, 2016
Example - Switzerland has 129 different bilateral trade accords with the EU, but must accept free movement of people and still pays fees to the EU.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 4, 2012
Switzerland: Analytical. If there’s one word most people describe themselves with professionally, it’s creative.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 1, 2015
Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 22, 2014
Every year, world leaders from both the public and private sector, meet at Davos Switzerland to discuss the biggest issues facing our society at the World Economic Forum.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
You can travel abroad to countries like Brazil, Switzerland, and Australia; you can hope for admission to a selective and prestigious business school in the U.S.; Imagine you are an entrepreneur, and your business is tanking hard.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
Germany’s NPR station interviewed me that same week, and dozens of articles flooded Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, the UK, and Canada within a week.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 17, 2015
If you’ve never experienced being the ‘Switzerland’ in a given conversation and think you might like it, there’s one more reason to make the Delta Model one of your go-to’s as a business person. by Andrea J.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 20, 2011
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. Over the last two months the U.S.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 21, 2012
The results were revealed today by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre , which participated in the international biennial research project initiated by the Swiss Research Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at Switzerland’s University of St.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2012
Johannesburg, Microsoft Campus, 3012 William Nicol Dr. South Korea: Seoul live stream Seoul time delay Spain Barcelona, InfoJobs HQ, Numància, 46 6ª planta Barcelona, UXdna, InfoJobs, 3scale Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Madrid, 166 Calle de Velázquez Madrid, Lean Startup Circle Pamplona Santa Cruz de Tenerife Sweden: Gothenburg Uppsala Switzerland: Geneva Turkey: Istanbul, Özye?in
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Last week, several jurisdictions moved to classify cryptoassets, with a bill passing the Wyoming House of Representatives defining utility tokens (which would not be subject to securities regulations) and Switzerland also delineating three categories of tokens: securities (tokens that function as investments); utilities (access to services on a platform that already exists); and payments (which would be subject to anti-money laundering laws).
The Startup Magazine
JUNE 8, 2017
This has already been proven to work, having already been executed in Switzerland.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 15, 2012
While I was in Iceland a few weeks ago, there was a set of discussions driven by Brad Burnham of Union Square Ventures about trying to make Iceland and “Internet Neutrality Zone” similar to Switzerland and banking. This is a draft post by Dave Jilk, a long time friend, business partner, and CEO of Standing Cloud. While the words are his, I agree 100% with everything he is saying here.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 8, 2018
Fourteen years later, I’ve been fortunate enough to work with over 10,000 people around the world in locations such as New York, Sydney, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Tobago, Delhi, Switzerland and France.
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 17, 2017
The Texas program will be this group’s first outpost in the US beyond their roots in Boston (this organization also operates in Mexico, Israel, Switzerland and the U.K.).
BeyondVC
APRIL 23, 2017
My bet is that a startup will win this battle, one that is not burdened by legacy customers, one that can be Switzerland sitting on top of all of the other platforms, and one that will build real intelligence (using machine learning) with the data they are extracting from all other systems. I’ve written before about the competitive nature of SaaS and the amount of entrants in every category.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 19, 2012
Another cloud service panelists found impressive was Switzerland-based Koemei , which transcribes online video and audio. Entrepreneurs demonstrating their latest ideas at the EMO Spring 2012 conference showed that inspiration travels in many directions.
VC Cafe
JUNE 18, 2012
SECA – the represnetative body for Switzerland private equity has LP and VC documentation templates, including models: [link] mplates.aspx. “The picture has nothing to do with this article” – but did it get your attention?
Duct Tape Marketing
MARCH 26, 2015
Collective entrepreneurship is epitomized in female entrepreneur Lisa Chuma, who created the Women’s Expo shortly after immigrating to Switzerland. A displaced Kansan, she currently resides in Switzerland with her husband and daughter.
Steve Blank
MARCH 15, 2011
Vogt Holding), PhD Mechanical Engineering (FAU, Germany), MS Engineering (ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 15, 2010
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.
Where to Play
OCTOBER 26, 2017
Marc is Vice President for Innovation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also heads the Chair of Entrepreneurship & Technology Commercialization.
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