Venture Challenge #2: What it takes to build a dream team
Date
Wednesday, 1. November 2023; 17:30 - 19:30
Location
ETH Campus Zentrum, Student Project House, Clausiusstrasse 6/8, 8006 Zürich
Register
Accelerate your startup project with the support of successful founders and industry leaders!
The series of six workshops is based on a mission and challenge approach to enhance the validation and execution of your business case. Our goal is to support the best startup talents in Switzerland in order to build world-class startups the fastest way possible.
Apply if you have an innovative startup project and the ambition to conquer the world. Student, doctoral candidate, postdoc or member of staff at ETH Zurich, or any other Swiss university carrying a solid high-tech startup project are also more than welcome to join.program, please don't hesitate to contact Raffael: raffael.kellner@venturelab.ch.
The Venture Challenge workshops will:
- Inspire your entrepreneurial journey- Shape your entrepreneurial proposal
- Start networking in the Swiss startup ecosystem
Join us to learn:
- How to get cofounders onboard- How to approach the first hirings
- Scaling the team properly
Proud to welcome
Speaker of the Night
About: David is a former student of physics and law at the University of Zurich and holds a degree in Business Administration and Management. In 2010, at a Venture Challenge Course held at ETH Zurich, David met his co-founder Daniel and decided to found ServiceHunter AG (quitt).
Since 2011, the ETH Zurich spin-off has been taking care of the correct registration, insurance and payroll accounting of private individuals' domestic help in Switzerland. 100% digital. The vision: fair employment. quitt is the Swiss market leader for hiring domestic helpers. A payroll of over 360 million has already been settled for around 30’000 private employers. Since its founding, quitt has made it to the list of Switzerland's "Top 100 Startups" and received second place at the "Swiss Economic Award", among others. Since 2023, quitt is also available in Germany and with quitt Business also for Swiss startups.
In 2020, David founded Julia Capital AG which develops purely quantitative trading strategies for digital asset markets. He also invested in over 10 Startups.
David will talk about his over 10 years of startup experience and share details about his journey to co-founding, financing and building up a successful company. He will also help answer some of your questions during the Q&A session:
Topics covered at the workshop:
- Is the startup your first real job? Learn to manage and get to know yourself.
- How to find a co-founder, or found alone? What if co-founders do not get along?
- Investors as part of the team, business angels vs. VCs.
- When shall I hire the first trainee?
- Stakeholder management. Why personal life situations matter a lot and have to be taken into account.
- Hiring is an art of its own. Where to trust your gut and where not.
- The difference in management and leadership style of an operational, high-performance, and board team.
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Get ready! Watch and get inspired:About the beginnings of quitt.ch
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