Venture Leaders 2010: ‘An incredible experience’
Venture Leaders 2010: ‘An incredible experience’
Johannes Reck, GetYourGuide: “Venture Leaders was an incredible experience. I personally learned a lot, particularly in areas where I didn’t expect to...Going back to Switzerland, I will take with me—apart from the new networks I’ve built here in Boston—new insights, frameworks and strategies for doing start-ups.”
This is just what Venture Leaders is about. For ten years, swissnex Boston has partnered with venturelab to bring 20 Swiss entrepreneurs annually to Boston for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
It includes a packed itinerary of visits to high-tech companies, academic courses, skills-training workshops, rare discussions with some of Boston’s best Swiss-based and American entrepreneurs and copious networking opportunities with potential investors. In so doing, Venture Leaders arms these brilliant young men and women with the experience, expertise and tools to take their innovations further. As Nina Geib of Virometix noted: “It was a great opportunity to get our business further: learning new things about the US, business and financing, and all the other tools we need to grow our business.”
As Venture Leaders 2010 drew to a close, ten days of activities ensured that the entrepreneurs developed the skills and knowledge needed to break into new markets, chart the volatile global economy and brand themselves as the top tier of Swiss innovators.
In 2010, swissnex Boston supplied the Venture Leaders with a diverse, enriching and instructive program of activities—especially networking: “That’s actually what I really liked about our time in Boston,” Geib added, “meeting a lot of people who can give valuable input and ask all the right questions.”
Indeed, meeting new people involved more than just pitching: “I particularly liked when we had the opportunity to showcase some of our most urgent problems and to discuss them with the team or get concrete feedback from our coaches,” said Samuel Mueller of Mirasense.
