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Global Entrepreneurship Week Maastricht 2013

Panel discussing what's next for the European Plan

Panel discussing what’s next for the European Plan

I was delighted and honored to be invited recently to Global Entrepreneurship Week Maastricht to attend a panel discussion with Thorsten Jelinek from the World Economic Forum, Saskia Vossenberg a Consultant and Entrepreneur in Gender Studies and
Jo Martens from Startups.be about what’s next for Europe, and especially the role of government and education in supporting the creation of more successful startups and founders.

I argued, as is my pet peeve, for a more scientific (the hard science kind) and experiential approach to economy, government and education where we dare to test more and also radically different things and let the data – not politics – drive the decisions on what to implement and what is working.

To cheers from the audience – and a bit of grief from the World Economic Forum representative when I pointed out that economics is a social science, not a hard science, and that it has possibly done us more harm than good so far.

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Education, entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned at Northern Institute of Technology Management, NIT Hamburg

Recently I had the honor to be invited to share my startup lessons learned and introduce students to The Lean Startup methodologies at the Northern Institute of Technology Management (NIT) in Hamburg.

The Northern Institute of Technology Management is an international business school, located in Hamburg, Germany. It was founded in 1998 as a public-private partnership of the Hamburg University of Technology and sponsoring companies.

Someone wrote a summary of their take of the lecture – so I don’t have to. Also see my previous lecture at the University of Cologne on the subject for more details.

Do you want to book me? Shoot me an email at booking@vidarandersen.com and let’s talk.

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Poster boy

Here are the slides I used:

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Education, entrepreneurship

Startup Day at University of Cologne

Fresh off the boat from Silicon Valley and back in Cologne town, I was recently invited to give visitors and students an introduction to The Lean Startup at the Startup Day at the University of Cologne arranged by the HGNC.

Panel debate on venture capital and startup ecosystems

Panel debate on venture capital and startup ecosystems

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And of course there was no better occasion to debut the new CGN <3<3<3 Startups t-shirt.

Here are the slides I used:

If you want to book me too, shoot me an email and let’s talk.

A video report from the event (German):

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corporate entrepreneurship, Customer Development, Education, entrepreneurship, innovation, startup

Introducing +Andersen & Associates

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People have been asking me what I’ve been up to in the last year and short answer is: I’ve been busy.

On the one hand busy supporting and nurturing the locals startup scene of Cologne grow and and teaching university students how to make their own mistakes instead of repeating my own mistakes when building a startup.

On the other hand, as a consequence of my experience with founding startups, working with corporations and teaching how to apply the scientific method to building startups at universities,   I’ve been receiving a lot of questions from my old corporate contacts. They’ve been asking me what they can learn from startups and which methodologies and processes they can use in their organization to create more innovation.  And the demand just kept on growing, so much so that I had to founded a new company to be able to serve the them.

Introducing +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES

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