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I’m Featured on SlideShare – Again!

I’m featured on LinkedIn SlideShare today – Again! This is the fourth time one of my presentations have been featured as presentation of the day on LinkedIn SlideShare in less than the same amount of months! (Previously: 1, 2, 3)

So yeah, go ahead and pinch my arm.

This time it’s the Lean Launchpad 101 “What We Now Know” lecture I held in Iran earlier this year. Read more about the backstory.

Gee. Thank you LinkedIn SlideShare – You’re being awfully good to me.

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Here are the slides I used in case you missed them:

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Pirate Summit 2015

MC'ing the startup pitches @ Pirate Summit 2015. 02 September 2015, Cologne, Germany. Image ©Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media

MC’ing the startup pitches @ Pirate Summit 2015. 02 September 2015, Cologne, Germany. Image ©Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media

And thus, Cologne’s own Pirate Summit is history for this year. And what a spectacular event it was – once again! This marks the 5 year anniversary and the same number of summits I’ve attended.

This year I wasn’t pitching anything myself, but MC’ing the startup pitches on the first day instead, I opened with the exact same hack I debuted pitching my own startup from the same stage in 2011.

Back then as now, I made everybody stand up and introduce themselves to a stranger next to them, explain who they are and what they expected to get out of the event.

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Startups on a Boat – from Koblenz to Cologne

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Yesterday I had the pleasure to be invited onboard the MS Gründerschiff to moderate the startup pitches during the trip on the river Rhine from Koblenz to Cologne.

MS Gründerschiff loosely translates to MS Founders’ Ship, and it was a one of a kind networking event to bridge the startup scene of Koblenz with that of its bigger brother in the Northwest, Cologne. The event saw local stakeholders, startups and corporates – leaders and feeders – come together to talk about how to strengthen the region.

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Photo by NERDHUB CC

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