Entrepreneurs and Investors give their best tips for start-ups

Le Temps: Pedro Bados «Personne n’est prêt à devenir entrepreneur»

Pedro Bados a cofondé Nexthink pour commercialiser les technologies découvertes durant son passage à l’EPFL. Il a presque éliminé toute hiérarchie de son entreprise.

Manuel Reinhard: How It Paid To Not Give Ourselves Away As A Startup

"As a founder you will face many situations when you will be tempted to give your services away for free. My experience says: don’t. If you built a product which adds value to what your customers do, this value deserves to be be compensated. Let me share three stories with you. In all of them we were asked to give away our services completely or partially for free. We never did and it proved to be the right thing."

Pirate’s Hub Blog: Tipps von der Expertin

Penny Schiffer von Swisscom Ventures gibt Einblicke in den Alltag eines Investors und erklärt, worauf Startups achten müssen.

i-net Blog: «If you’re after eight-figure investments, it’s always going to be very tight in Europe»

With its award-winning Erlenapp, the company known as qipp made both a national and an international name for itself. But with its Allthings platform, success came to the Internet of Things startup in a different market from the one initially in mind. In this interview Stefan Zanetti, founder and CEO of qipp, explains what hurdles the Basel startup had to overcome and ventures a glimpse into the future for qipp.

Stephan von Perger (Wellington Partners): 29 early stage fundraising pitfalls

This is a list of some of the most common mistakes I have come across in my role as a tech VC at Wellington Partners.

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