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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Switzerland

The Next Web

By Daniel van Heusden and Andrea Hak For centuries, Switzerland has been known as a serene peaceful paradise with beautiful mountains, lakes, glaciers… and chocolate. Switzerland has been named the most innovative country in the world for eight years in a row by the Global Innovation Index. And this makes sense.

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Peaks and valleys: An honest look at the startup ecosystem in Switzerland

The Next Web

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.

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The Government Starts an Incubator: The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Steve Blank

These weren’t 22-year olds who wanted to build a social shopping web site. The gamble was that we could train Professors doing hard-core science, who had never been near a startup or Silicon Valley, to get out of the building and talk to customers and Pivot as easily as someone at a web startup. The Innovation Corps Startup Team.

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Analyze This: 5 Rules For Awesome Impromptu Web Analysis

Occam's Razor

They expose a person's critical thinking ability (something I highly recommend you test when you hire web analysts: Interviewing Tip: Stress Test Critical Thinking. When someone asks you an open ended question, at least connected to web analysis, here's what's important. Seems straight forward right? Let's go.

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Via Codigo lays down it’s growth plan: Key Alliance with Transformify to Empower the Social and Labour Reintegration of Vulnerable Youth

Transformify

Via Codigo , a nonprofit organisation teaching high skilled web development and soft skills program at juvenile detention centers is pleased to announce it’s goals for 2019. Training highly- skilled web developers. The opportunities generated by this alliance are many, Transformify has a broad spectrum of remote jobs available.

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The Magic of the Irish – Dublin’s Resurgence on the Global Tech Scene

Both Sides of the Table

I wrote this on my flight home from f.ounders & web summit in Dublin, Ireland late last year. My trip was scheduled around the annual Web Summit and the f.ounders conference, both of which have become the hottest must-attend event in Europe and rivaling any great conference in the US. The Origins of Web Summit / f.ounders.

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DFINITY Is Fastest, Most Scalable General Purpose Blockchain, According to Report

The Startup Magazine

The DFINITY Foundation is a Switzerland-based, not-for-profit organization that’s on a mission to develop technology that supports the next generation of the internet. centralized hosting of web servers, databases, and more). Introducing DFINITY and the Internet Computer Blockchain.