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Swiss Startup Day: Pictures and quotes of the Swiss Startup Day 2015 are online

On the website of the Swiss Startup Day CTI Invest has published quotes about the successful event last week. In addition, you will find a link to almost 400 pictures of the event. You can see one of the pictures above.

 Oliver Flückiger: Lean Day 2015 - Die wichtigsten Learnings

On the day before the Swiss Startup Day the first Swiss „Lean Day“ took place also organised by CTI Invest. Oliver Flückiger reports about the event with the famous author Ash Maurya and shares the most important learnings.

Mouna Mahouachi: Fintech Startup Weekend Zurich – And the winner is….

The Fintech Startup Weekend Zurich had more than 70 participants, 18 fintech ideas pitched and eventually 12 fintech startups. In her blog post Mouna Mahouachi reports about the event and presents the winning teams and their ideas.

FintechNews: Fintech In Switzerland - Success As A Niche Player

In a brilliant article Fintech investor Marc P. Bernegger writes about the Swiss Fintech industry. In hies view it is not to be expected that Switzerland will be among the leading Fintech nations anytime soon. Switzerland will be positioned in the midfield across all fintech disciplines. However, in a few fintech niches, such as the Crypto-niche, companies in the Greater Zurich Area might contribute to a strong growth. Similar to other successful Swiss industries, Swiss fintech will be successful as a niche player.

Venturelab: venture leaders China - Red carpet for Swiss innovation in Beijing

On the 22nd of October 2015, the venture leaders China were invited to a fantastic reception and dinner by the Embassy of Switzerland in Beijing. They were warmly welcomed by Alain Gaschen, Deputy Head of Mission and Head of the Political Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in China, and had the opportunity to pitch in front of an audience of more than 100 selected guests comprising investors, partners and entrepreneurs.

Swissnex China: venture leaders 2015

This year’s edition of venture leaders stood once again in the spotlight of 10 innovative Swiss entrepreneurs. After having attended several workshops with various business experts, entrepreneurs and investors during an intensive three-days program in Beijing, we look forward to seeing the venture leaders implementing their newly gained experience with their Chinese partners.