IT's ABOUT TECH #6: Starting a tech company today: Where are the sweet spots? Where the blind spots?

Buy a decent bottle of wine, brainstorm your idea, sketch it out on a napkin and approach a Business Angel? This were the good long gone times of the Dotcom Boom in the late nineties. Although it never really happened like this the startup frenzy is still going on and Switzerland has markedly caught up creating substantial funding in Digital startups in the recent decade. Still, if we look at the hard facts, most of swiss made software is mainly run by old fashioned founder driven companies financing themselves by keeping the cash flow positive. Boring? A lack of ambition? Or a virtue? We will find out at our next IT’s ABOUT TECH EVENT: „How to start a tech company today?“, taking place on November 28, in Klybeq, starting at 17.30.

We will hear from Christoph Hugenschmidt, long-time IT journalist and author of the recently published book "Inside Abacus and…