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Whether you’re launching a new business or refining ideas at a later stage, the key to success lies in testing, iterating, and moving forward quickly and effectively. These steps are essential to transforming your vision into a thriving business. I recall studying with someone who once had the idea of creating credit cards for children....
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As an entrepreneur, you’re the engine driving your startup. There’s no boss nudging you out of bed or pushing you to get things done. If you don’t act, no one else will. Often, you’ll be the first to arrive at the office and the last to leave. Recognition is rare—no one’s likely to say, “Great...
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It’s a nice or maybe a bit of a creepy thing depending on who you choose. But who are these angels and how do you become one? 💫 What is Angel Investing?💡 Angel investing refers to private individuals, often called angel investors, who use their own wealth to provide early-stage funding to startups. These investors are essential...
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The pain, struggle and even failure of not succeeding in business is often kept in the shadows and certainly not visible enough online. It’s more likely that we share stories of glory, forgetting that there’s a lot of tears, sweat and struggle behind it.While building Sandborn, I encountered problems that I would never have imagined...
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Often when a crisis hits, on a personal or global level, we are paralyzed, stop doing things, watch, hope, and mostly do nothing – however, these crises are an opportunity to change, to do better, to do something different while others sit and watch – for me this state has happened a few times, like...
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Dive into the future of sustainability at the Climate Tech Female Founders & Investors Dinner, co-hosted with FELFEL!🚀🗓️ March 12, 2024 – 5pm to 9pm📍 FELFEL, Räffelstrasse 24, 8045 Zurich Join us for an evening of insights from an experienced sustainability-focused founder and investor, revealing the keys to successful angel investing in this impactful area.🌿 Yet, it’s not...
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Female entrepreneurs are systematically conquering the world’s entrepreneurship scene and have recently developed into the fastest growing founder group in the world (Birkner, Ettl, Welter, & Ebbers, 2018). With innovative solutions, they do not only follow their male counterparts but increasingly venture into new areas of entrepreneurship. These female-led startups provide highly promising but oftentimes...
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Modern theories increasingly investigate the question why people make irrational investment decisions and conclude that investment decisions are strongly influenced by psychological factors such as unconscious bias. Now, what kind of biases do we talk about when thinking about the startup scene? This question can best be answered when considering the male dominance in such...
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Once again, Switzerland has been ranked as being among the most supportive environments for entrepreneurship and innovation in the world. Yet, if we bring gender into the equation, everything changes.  Ranking high? Ranking low! Repeatedly, Switzerland is recognized for its institutional context that makes the starting and developing of new ventures relatively easy (GEM 2019/2020)....
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