German startups from the fields of e-commerce, software and analytics, FinTech, mobility and health in particular were able to record high investment amounts again in 2018. Berlin is ahead in a comparison of countries, followed by North Rhine-Westphalia in fourth place. In order to further improve the framework conditions in…
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The Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) establishes its own corporate start-up within the Group with “viesure innovation center” (viesure). Under the management of Wiener Städtische Versicherung, the largest group company, the new company is focusing on future trends in digital customer service. The headquarters of the company will be the new…
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Israel as a startup nation is still quite young, almost in the founding mode itself. Between ten and fifteen years ago, the state, with its nine million people, was mainly an agricultural country, which had only developed into a veritable innovation center with increasing technological know-how. With a charisma that…
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The prototype is ready, the first interested parties for the innovative product have been found and we are close to the first price calculation. But how do you set a mutually fair price for a novel product, where at first glance you have no comparable products? Why is pricing so…
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Most founders like to talk about their growth rate and monthly sales. But do they focus on their costs? Rather not. As long as more revenue (or investments) is coming than the amount spent, everything feels right. A regular look at the cost structure and a suitable forecast can be…
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What are the technological trends of the future? Which are the most suitable startup solutions for a specific problem? Those are questions to deal with as a startup scout at the Startup Intelligence Center at Daimler Financial Services. The Startup Intelligence Center (SIC) is the entry point for all young…
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Never before have so-called startups – young start-ups – received as much venture capital as last year. The ITC sector collected the most funds. Specifically, 1.24 billion francs flowed into venture capital in young Swiss companies last year. This corresponds to a handsome increase of almost 32 percent compared to…
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Samsung has bought camera specialist Corephotonics. The takeover had last indicated. Thus, in the future, Samsung could deal with patent lawsuits that had once brought Corephotonics against Apple on the way. What has the acquisition of Corephotonics, a camera specialist from Israel, through Samsung with Apple’s iPhone to do? At…
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A MIT investigation destroys the myth that only young entrepreneurs are more successful On many occasions, youth and fame often go hand in hand. Even more so when it comes to giant technological companies that have become an icon of the new economy and whose founders created them when they…
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Facebook and Google control more than half (57.6 percent) of the digital advertising market worldwide. The Rate Google is a project of reform of the well-known Law of Intellectual Property that forces to pay to the providers of services and news aggregators to link and to show content of means…
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