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12.03.2019

Thriving Corporate Venturing in Switzerland

Agile enterprise… Outside-in innovation… Disruption… Business Model Innovation… Corporate Venturing… These buzz words pop up everywhere, in the media, in research articles, during conversations and so on. However, how do you creat …

04.03.2019

Max Meister: «Successful entrepreneurs have higher resilience»

Max Meister is co-founder and CSO of the Swiss Start-up Group AG. We talked to him about the Swiss Startup Market, work-life-balance and his goals for 2019.

04.03.2019

Urs Wietlisbach: «Nobody is born a great entrepreneur»

We spoke to Urs Wietlisbach, co-founder of global private markets investment manager Partners Group and advisory board member of the Swiss Startup Group, about why no one is born a great entrepreneur and why it is alright to lack certain sk …

01.02.2019

Andreas Widmer: «No one will explore the north pole in flip-flops»

Andreas Widmer and his two partners founded Westhive, which after only one year became one of Switzerland‘s largest coworking providers. Westhive AG is a strategic partner of the SWISS STARTUP GROUP. We met Andi to talk about entrepreneur …