Too less traction, no marketing budget, slow growth… the biggest challenges for every entrepreneur. Now, all together we can change that. And here is how we are going to do that. AS AN ENTREPRENEUR As founder of an innovative business you cannot get enough traction. Even for well connected people it remains to be a […]
1) Society3 & World Innovations Forum Merging Leveraging existing ecosystem and technology platform The World Innovations Forum is merging with Society3 and brings a global innovation and entrepreneurship event to Society3’s engagement in this space. The existing Society3 Eco-System of approximately 6,000 entrepreneurs and investors will become the immediate base also for the Forum. The […]
When you start your business, you don’t need anything other than your brain and working through the following 5 steps. If there is anything unclear to you, use Google. Finding your own way is part of this exercise. You will do that for the next 10+ years – finding your own way. If you are […]
In March 2017, four startup teams graduated from the first accelerator program provided by Society3 in Switzerland. Each of the four teams worked in a Silicon Valley style program focusing on becoming the best in their category and eventually conquer global markets. Some of the teams already secured funding, others wait to gain more traction […]
Once in a while I meet entrepreneurs with amazing ideas but they don’t know how they could compete with even the largest enterprises. I started my first company from scratch with $20,000 and needed to compete with 3 other businesses, each $200 Million to $1 Billion in revenue – 10 years later we were market […]
There is a concept called MVP – Minimum Viable Product. Even though the name kind of says it all, the concept “MINIMUM” – “VIABLE” – “PRODUCT” indicates that there are as few features as possible, it must kind of work and it is a product – most entrepreneurs interpret MVP as the early iteration of […]
I’ve worked with over 100 startups in the past years and ran 5 businesses myself. My experience – in this order: No. 1) Weak execution Most failing startups could just not execute in a timely manner and/or showed a huge lack of judgment. They worked too hard on product features, too little with the market. […]
You have only 24 hours a day minus 10 to sleep, eat and recharge makes it 14 hours. I assume you are tackling a large market and want to conquer the world. I also assume you want to have about 30% market share of whatever billion dollar market with roughly 20 Million potential customers. This […]
The single best resource you as a founder can – and really really should – look for, is a co-founder. 1) Solopreneurs have the least success rates of all founders 2) A stellar business focused generalist will always be at best a mediocre product creator 3) The most talented developer is probably the least likely CEO […]
Forget it, passion is for pussycats. You need to be obsessed. You heard all that many times. But what does it actually mean? What constitutes such a great founders team? Team means team. A founders team is not one founder with a few people joining him or her somehow but multiple founders with more […]