Category Archives: startup

Education, entrepreneurship, pitching, startup

Pitching Masterclass @ the new Gründungsfabrik Mönchengladbach

There’s a new place for people interested in doing their own thing in the state of NorthRhine-Westphalia: Gründungsfabrik Mönchengladbach – and recently I was invited as one of their first educational programs to host my Pitching Masterclass there!

My Pitching Masterclass was initially created to serve the needs of the Rheinland Pitch back in 2013 to help educate our regional founders – and has been constantly evolving ever since, and today it contains accumulated knowledge and feedback from over 3.000 startups served – and counting.

Until now, the Pitching Masterclass Startup Edition and Corporate Edition was only available to applicants to the Rheinland Pitch or startups lucky enough to be in an incubator or accelerator or corporate innovation program who decided to book me for my in-person, on-location Masterclass.

Happy Pitching Masterclass customers…

Today, the Pitching Masterclass is also additionally available, both the Startup and Corporate Edition, to all startups and corporate innovators everywhere as on-demand eLearning at https://pitchingmasterclass.com, featuring +2 hours of video and all the hundreds of slides as a booklet download – also bookable in packages which additionally includes online mentoring & support vouchers for your teams.

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Back supporting incubated startups @ Digitalhub Aachen

It’s that time of year again! I’m back to support the Digitalhub Aachen‘s incubation program with an adapted version of the “Lean Launchpad” program from Stanford for the eight year in a row.

This year we’re running 12 early-stage startups through the Lean Launchpad (LLP) model from Stanford by the father of the Lean Startup movement Steve Blank, for 4 months, meeting weekly to report progress and receive peer review and mentoring in 1 to 1 sessions with me.

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Mentoring Startups @ Greentech Meets NRW

Recently I was humbled and excited to be invited to mentor the startups at the kick-off event “Greentech Pitch ‘n’ Answer!” for the Greentech Meets NRW initiative at Digitalhub Aachen’s Digital Church.

Check out the following startups that participated in the event:

BaaS Energy – Battery as a Service, replacing diesel generators.

CHARGEUNITY – Charging stations for electric automotive that private individuals can invest in.

EAS – Recycling synthetic materials by pyrolysis reactors for industry.

ivilion – A new way of building batteries, saving costs, adding capacity, better thermal management.

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Mentoring @ Ignition+ DUS

Recently, I was invited to mentor startups in the Ignition+ accelerator program by DigiHub Düsseldorf Rheinland, DE.

Currently, I’m helping Osphim, a startup in the recent batch for the next five months. Osphim is helping the injection moulding industry to achieve +70% more efficiency – so if you’re in the industry or know someone in this industry, get in touch; We’d love to hear from you and learn more about your current challenges and future goals!

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Visiting the Startup Village @ Jülich

Recently I was honored and excited to be invited to the new publicly funded (to help counter the energy transition woes for the regional – and the German as a whole – economy) and innovation project called Startup Village by Brainergy Park outside of Jülich, Germany to check out the second batch of their ZEBRA green tech and impact “accelerator”.

It’s a huge investment with the capital – and a huge area – already committed to building out a massive innovation campus, and I do enjoy experiencing new startup initiatives outside of the major cities in this area of the German state of North-Rhine-Westphalia first hand. So much is happening outside of Cologne and Düsseldorf that is often overlooked.

It’s still very early days (not many buildings completed yet), but keep an eye on this area and do visit if you have the chance – even getting there can be quite the adventure…

And if you’re a green tech or impact startup, maybe you want to apply for the next ZEBRA batch?

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