CTI Invest has published the impressive list with the 40 finalists of the Pitching Battle at the Swiss Startup Day. Swisscom explains how to pitch the Silicon Valley style. Go Beyond helps entrepreneurs to find investors with a series of podcasts. Seedstars World reports about the Swiss start-up scene. And investor Adrian Bult was interviewed by i-net.
Our start-up press review focusses again on blogs and podcasts. This time we selected interesting news from support organisations.
CTI Invest: 40 start-ups selected for the pitching battle at Swiss Startup Day
An impressive group of start-ups will compete at the upcoming Swiss Startup Day. Swiss Television will report about the selection process next Monday in SRF Eco.
Penny Schiffer (Swisscom): StartUp Challenge - Are you ready for pitching #SiliconValley style?
In October the winners of the Swisscom Startup Challenge will travel to the US. Penny Schiffer shares the advice she and Beat Schillig gave on pitching in Silicon Valley, on how Swisscom organizes the week in the US to make the most out of it for the five teams and some of the expectations the entrepreneurs have towards the trip.
Go Beyond: Eight podcasts about angel financing
A series of eight podcasts for entrepreneurs that cover all aspects of planning and running financing rounds.
Bérénice Magistretti (Seedstars World): Swiss Startups: Safe Bet or Risky Venture?
The Swiss seem to be progressively moving away from the safer, more traditional jobs like banking and law, and moving towards a riskier form of self-employment instead: entrepreneurship. Even though this phenomenon has been around for decades, especially in highly fertile places like Silicon Valley, London and Berlin, tech entrepreneurship is a relatively new concept in Switzerland.
Adrian Bult (i-net): «As an entrepreneur you have to be a little paranoid»
Adrian Bult, the Basel private investor and member of various boards of directors, is an acknowledged expert with an in-depth knowledge of Switzerland’s ICT sector. Since March 2013, he has been engaged on a voluntary basis as head of the i-net Technology Field ICT. In this interview he explains that makes entrepreneur types and why he is convinced that Switzerland could quite easily produce the next Google.
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