After founding your company, you will face the challenge of financing your startup. But nowadays the bank isn’t the easiest nor the best way to get some money. So the questions are: Which alternative sources are available? What does it mean for a company to on-board a Business Angel and how does crowdfunding/-investing work? What…
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PreviousNext Start-ups in Cambridge, US and Austria and International Financing There is a number of ingredients required to establish and grow a local entrepreneurial ecosystem. On one side, one of the most important is the proactive role of the public administration in providing an entrepreneurial-friendly territory and legislative tools that can enable this ecosystem; on…
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Peter Lieber talks in detail about life, failures and success as an ICT entrepreneur during the last twenty years. In his presentation Peter Lieber focuses on personal emotions and learnings about entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial actions. He will share these experiences with entrepreneurial beginners to start them reflecting on their goals. Peter Lieber talks about how…
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PreviousNext Start-ups in Cambridge, US and Austria and International Financing This lecture presents an overview of Professor Michael Cusumano’s most recent book, titled Staying Power: Six Enduring Principles for Managing Strategy and Innovation in an Uncertain World (Oxford, 2010). The focus is on “big ideas” that can help firms remain competitive over long periods of…
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Having survived all startup phases from dusk till down and built a strong business network on operational and commercial level Thomas rejoined community as an angelinvestor and advisor and got insights into the different views on similar problems. Working in a couple of adivsory and director boards mean working with different startup cultures and needs…
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In the year 2000 HYVE set off with the vision of a novel innovation process which connects users, customers, vendors and developers via internet and thereby enables the collaborative development of customer-centric and trailblazing innovations. Within 14 years HYVE has established itself as a leading innovation agency, which provides services in Germany and far beyond…
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Florian Gschwandtner, CEO & co-founder of Runtastic - a world leader in mobile health & fitness, reflects on the start-up processes and his experiences in building a successful company from scratch. He describes his lessons learned and those of his fellow co-founders, the do’s and don’ts of founding a start-up and what they would do…
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In this talk, Dr. Johann Hansmann, will give general insights on an angel job profile. Additionally, he will share his personal view on selection criteria for investment as well as how his working day looks like. “There is way more to it than only providing money”... the ingredients on “the more” will be unveiled. Holding…
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Katharina Klausberger, her Co-founder and a small, but extremely motivated team worked on another startup idea when they decided to give the byproduct, Shpock, a try. Today the flea market app counts more than 8 million users. The successful entrepreneur describes the decision making on which project should be followed and which should be abandoned.…
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In this informal talk, Horst Glasauer, long-standing Head of IT, at Eurotours will share his practical insights into the indispensability of technological solutions and the dramatic developments in the travel industry over the last years. The face of travel has changed significantly since the world-changing introduction of the internet and in a relatively short period…
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PreviousNext Drawing on his over thirty years of global experience in running tech companies, venture capital investing, and his role in taking companies through multi stage investments to exit, Ivan Nikkhoo will be discussing what it takes to create a sustainable digital ecosystem. Ivan is actively involved with a number of accelerators, incubators, and ecosystems…
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