PreviousNext "As an entrepreneur you have to make decisions - hundreds of decisions, big and small, every day. So at the end of the day, you have to take responsibility for that.“ For 15 years, Damian Izdebski made a name for himself as a successful entrepreneur but in the end lost everything in 2014 when…
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Chatri Sityodtong has a rags-to-riches life story: His family went through bankruptcy and at one point he lived on one meal per day. But that didn’t keep him from becoming a self-made multimillionaire entrepreneur. After working as investment analyst and management consultant he launched his first startup NextDoor Networks, a provider of e-commerce infrastructure, in…
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We are in the middle of the 3rd industrial revolution. The digitalization. Corporates are faced with new business models and concepts. They are looking for ways to manage the innovation process to secure their future business. Startups are popping up with excellent new ideas - struggeling with their go to market approach due to limited…
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Topic: Sustainable Business BuildingThe Founder & Investor Talks organized by the Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) at TU Wien enable the audience to learn first-hand from experienced founders, investors, and innovators. They share their international experiences, dos and don’ts and lessons learned during inspiring talks and answer questions in interactive Q&A-sessions. -------------------------------------------More about Stefan NagelStefan is…
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Find out how Bianca Gfrei started out on her mission to shake up the healthcare sector by founding kiweno. She resisted criticism from outdated and established institutions, she managed to scale a business from zero to "Startup of the Year" in only a few months. Gfrei will also share her insights on how to hire…
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“Building a ship on open sea – setting your sails towards launching a startup as a technical founder”ㅤThis talk will focus on the steps necessary, and lessons learned along the way of going from an idea to market-ready company:1. Legally founding a company and getting investment2. Building a team3. Developing a product that works 4.…
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Only Silicon Valley makes great platforms? Not at all. How successful platforms “made in Europe” work. >>REGISTER HEREㅤ The talk will focus on how successful platforms made in Europe work. In 1999, five McKinsey managers decided to shake up the confusing procurement market for business customers in Germany. Their aim was to launch a digital…
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My Becoming Journey: A Cloud Researcher, A Tech Entrepreneur, A Working Mom, and A Strategic Executive.ㅤIn this talk, you will hear the challenging but yet rewarding journey of a female entrepreneur of two successful companies in the area of enterprise software. One service company launched in Iran when she was 27 years old and the…
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Next-generation entrepreneur - quo vadis?ㅤMore information coming soon!About the speaker Armin Sageder, born in1969, graduated from the Technical University in Vienna with a PhD from the Stern School of Business (NY University) and was Senior Vice President Business Development at VA TECH until 2000. Following this, he founded, together with others, paysafecard.com Wertkarten AG, until…
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Superscaling - How to drive international expansion while localizing product, service & messaging In this talk, Chief Growth Officer of GoStudent, Laura Warnier, will introduce listeners to the structures and processes needed to hypergrow a startup and drive international expansion. She will take you on a journey of how to build standardized structures for…
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Coming soon >> Register here About this event Coming soon About the speaker Coming soon About the Founder & Investor Talks series The Founder & Investor Talks, organized by the Innovation Incubation Center (i²c) at TU Wien, enable the audience to learn firsthand from experienced founders, investors and innovators, and get inspired by their success (and failure)…
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Finding the right product-market fit in a fast-paced environment: byrd's path to becoming Europe's leading e-commerce fulfillment network >> Register here About this event When byrd launched its e-commerce logistics service in 2016, outsourcing the fulfillment of online orders was something relatively new to e-commerce retailers. Since then, the European e-commerce market has seen double…
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