Some time ago I had the great privilege to attend a seminar in Warsaw, Poland, on Swiss start-ups support ecosystem led by Jacques Hefti – Head of Start-up Campus at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAw). Support for start-ups in Switzerland is quite remarkable. Reports of Innovation Union Scoreboard confirm its overall leading innovation performance in […]
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EIT Health is healthcare focused initiative of European Institute of Technology with a budget of EUR 2 bln. EIT Health aims to accelerate entrepreneurship and innovation in the area of healthy living and active ageing in Europe by incubating 340 new business ideas, creating of 165 start-ups, and launching 160 new services and products in 2016-2018.
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Have you founded a company, and don’t know how much it could actually be worth? Or are you maybe a Business Angel considering investment into newly founded business, who needs to estimate its value? Start-ups valuation methods I’d like to share with you can be supportive in both of the situations. I will focus on
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English word singularity means the quality of being one of a kind, and this what entrepreneurs will find in Singularity University in Silicon Valley, US. Singularity University is not a typical higher education school. Its mission is to educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies that address humanity’s greatest challenges. You can find
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You want to invent the next big thing, but you don’t know exactly what? In this post you’ll find how to tap to over 100 million of already recorded, novel, non-obvious, and useful ideas described in English of course. As J.M. Kaplan and A.C. Warren aptly noticed in “Patterns of Entrepreneurship Management” probably the most underutilized
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Start-Up Europe is a platform aggregating several organizations, supported by European Commission,that contribute to European start-up ecosystem. Start-Up Europe is a part of European Union (EU) Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan. That is why its mission is to connect players of local start-up ecosystems in EU countries, including connecting start-ups, entrepreneurs, and researchers with start-up accelerators,
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Recently I have been delving into Starbucks Coffee Company transformation in 2008-2014, which they undertook in response to their slowing down performance in years preceding it. Starbucks is American coffeehouse chain set up in 1971 with more than 23 thousand points of sales globally as for 2015, and over 36 million fans on Facebook. Business
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There is number of new models improving forms of support available for early-stage companies, including start-ups in particular. Except start-up accelerators or Venture Capital firms we’d been already writing about at the blog, some other phenomena have been elaborated by NESTA. NESTA, which brand promise is “Making Innovation Flourish” has been founded by National Lottery
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Every start-up, or entrepreneur offering goods or services in the marketplace ask themselves a question about how much they should charge for what they deliver. Although there are many classic approaches for measuring customer value, and the willingness of customer to pay it (e.g. contingent valuation, or conjoint analysis), I would like to focus on
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In today’s discourse relating to trends impacting future of automotive industry we can distinguish several streams creating plenty of new business opportunities, for start-ups and small and medium enterprises in particular. Some of such trends is development of electric vehicles, and shift toward near zero emission engines. Electric vehicles are disruptive innovation, and as such
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