Within the publishing group News (VGN), he was instrumental in the successful transformation processes from print to digital. Now the former Managing Director and Chief Sales Officer B2C of VGN joined the startup Own Austria in Vienna as managing partner. In an interview he talks about his motives and plans.…
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TV formats such as “The Cave of the Lions” on VOX give you the feeling that everyone in Germany is starting a startup and employees are now rather boring and exotic. But if you look at the facts, a different picture becomes visible. According to KfW there were 1,548,000 founders…
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“Make it in Ulm – Do it in Ulm” is the slogan with which the city, together with Neu-Ulm and the districts Neu-Ulm and Alb-Donau, wants to become more attractive for founders. “There are people with good ideas, but they go to Berlin instead of pursuing their projects because the…
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Startups are often associated with founders from the tech scene. Not least thanks to the Vox program “The Cave of the Lions”, the term Startup is also established among food founders. However, in traditional occupations and industries, young people are less likely to startup. Rebecca Materne and Janina Schmitt did…
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Five months have passed since the trial between Amazon and the workers of the logistics center of San Fernando de Henares (Madrid) set its start date. However, the request of a judge, who demanded more clarity from the demands of the employees, has delayed the start of the process until…
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The e-commerce giant Amazon has announced on Monday that it has set itself the goal of making half of all its shipments carbon-free by 2030. Going eco-friendly nowadays is, apparently, really profitable. Zero Shipment The so-called “Zero Shipment” project is viable thanks to the improvements that can be made through…
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The retail giant has announced the launch of Amazon Moments, a new tool with which companies can reward their customers with physical or digital gifts from the marketplace. The use of gifts as a reward to consumers is a fairly common technique in traditional marketing strategies, however it has been…
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With the FinTech partnership program “Elevator Lab”, Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is pursuing the goal of intensifying its cooperation with FinTechs in Central and Eastern Europe. Yesterday, Thursday, a Demo Day took place in Vienna, where a total of eight FinTechs presented their technologies. In 2017, Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI)…
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The Zurich EY banking specialist Urs Palmieri wants to spread the tech expertise from Asia to Switzerland. Because in this country he misses a certain innovative strength and the courage to take calculated risks. Mr. Palmieri, after seven years in Singapore, you have been back in Switzerland since the beginning…
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Burda invests through BurdaPrincipal Investments in the American innovation and media startup WaitWhat. Behind the two-year-old company are the former managers of the digital conference series TED, June Cohen and Deron Triff. The first round of financing totaled about four million dollars. Burda investing in WaitWhat BurdaPrincipal Investments leads the…
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