Yesterday, I was honored and delighted to be invited to join the panel for the presentations of the Hacking 4 Recovery at Stanford, hosted by Steve Blank.
Hacking 4 recovery is a summer series of 5-day pop-up classes at Stanford University creating new businesses and reinventing existing.
Great teams presenting impressive progress after only 5 days of intensive work!
I’ve been asked by Business France to support their IMPACT Germany program helping French startups expanding into Germany.
Today, we kicked the program off – on Zoom, which is of course the sensible thing these days, and I spoke a bit about idiosyncrasies of the German market and doing business in Germany as a foreigner.
Recently I was interviewed by Telekom about corporate incubation, corporate entrepreneurship and what really “failure” means in the context of Lean Startup.
You can read it here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-questions-vidar-anderson-svenja-enss-van-gemmern-/
Late night presentations, rounding off MEWEEK 2017
Recently I was honored and delighted to be invited back to this year’s Maastricht Week of Entrepreneurship to speak about the mistakes, the false perceptions and beliefs common with first time startup founders and wantrepreneurs; The Top 10 Startup Delusions.
I have a long history with Maastricht and it’s always a pleasure to be back.
Here are the slides I used:
LOL – My buddy Moritz Delbrück of Justix GmbH trolled me in the presentation before me. Well played! :)
Lean Startup Crash Course @ iHUB Moldova
Recently I was honored and delighted to be invited by USAID to help companies and startups in Moldova.
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the United States Government agency which is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid.
I knew where the country of Moldova (not Moldavia – that’s the name of a region) was on the map (Hint: It’s just east of Romania), but I had never previously visited. I was surprised to find a small but capable startup community and a lot of familiar faces in the capital of Chisinau.
The entrance to the cool new iHUB Chisinau
First up, I had two workshops with Moldovan companies and their management about how corporations engage with startups and why; One at Starnet (the primary telco in Moldova) and one at the coworking space and startup center iHUB (also supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs among others).
The topic of innovation and growth is especially interesting in Moldova because one of the leading industries is outsourcing; building apps, websites and software for other western companies. This is a good business model for now – but for how long? What happens when other markets will outcompete them on price? So I talked a lot about the importance in experimenting with developing new products and how, before their business model may become obsolete and also how and why they could be reinvesting in local startups as a part of their innovation portfolio.
Back to back, I was also honored to be invited to speak about my startup experiences at the Startup Grind Chisinau in the evening.
At Startup Grind Chisinau, I spoke a bit about my startup experiences
And a day later I held my popular Lean Startup Crash Course for existing startups and people considering founding one.
In between everything there was also time to sit down with an Estonian startup delegation to learn more about the ecosystem there
My guide and help on the ground was Traian Chivriga of UnArtOras that I already knew from Cologne’s own Pirate Summit – And in the evening there was time for socializing… ;)
Lots of familiar faces…
I met this guy that I also knew from Cologne’s Pirate Summit already; Riccardo Fedeli
And Vlad Calus of planable.io – that I too knew from the Pirate Summit in Cologne already
And Livia Ţurcanu that I already knew from my work at University of Maastricht
These were the slides for my Lean Startup Crash Course:
These were the slides for the talk about why and how corporations engage with startups: