
Honored to be a part of Business France‘s yearly accelerator program “Impact Germany” for startups, scale-ups, and SMBs looking to expand into the German market for almost five years now with my company +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES.
Honored to be a part of Business France‘s yearly accelerator program “Impact Germany” for startups, scale-ups, and SMBs looking to expand into the German market for almost five years now with my company +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES.
Who would have thought… From very humble beginnings of the Rheinland Pitch – to becoming Germany’s largest startup pitching event!
Over ten years ago, in early 2013 Matthias & Lorenz Gräf and me where sitting at what would soon open as STARTPLATZ in Cologne, DE discussing how we could help the founders in the region be more competitive when pitching startup investors.
And keeping with the unpretentious “no frills” spirit of the Rheinland Pitch, we thought it didn’t feel right to be celebrating ourselves – but someone had acquired some festive balloons. ;)
We were (and still are) convinced that the region is a great place to found a startup and that we were (and still are) encountering many competent founders with great ideas here.
However, back then there were two pressing issues of concern:
So we came up with the idea to create an event that would be open to everyone and:
I think we’ve succeeded beyond anybody’s expectations. In fact, we didn’t have any particular expectations back at the start. We just said, ok – let’s do it. And a month later the first Rheinland Pitch event was held to a standing-room only full house.
And the rest is history.
Excited and honored to have been invited to mentor participating startups in the Jacobs Startup Competition (JSC) founded and managed by students at the Jacobs University (now known as the Constructor University) in Bremen, DE.
Excited to be invited to explain the Customer Development part of the Lean Startup methodologies to startups in Cameroon, courtesy of FI Cameroon.
I’m honored and excited to be invited back to support the incubated startups at digitalHUB Aachen for the FIFTH year in a row with my company +ANDERSEN & ASSOCIATES!
I shared a summary of the Lean Launchpad structure we are using to support the early-stage startups last year.