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Competition documentation >>
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Business plan handbook >>
Legal and tax toolkit >>
Recommended literature >>
Financial planning tool >>
Competition documentation
| Information on Venture |
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| Checklist Business Idea |
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| How to submit a project for phase I |
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| Business Plan Checklist Marketing |
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| Business Plan Checklist Finance |
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| Business Plan Guidelines |
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| How to submit a project for phase II |
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| Finance Workshop Presentation |
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| Evaluation Criteria for phase II |
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| Newsletter No. 1, September 2009 |
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| Newsletter No. 2, October 2009 |
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| Newsletter No. 3, December 2009 |
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| Newsletter No. 4, February 2010 |
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| Newsletter No. 5, April 2010 |
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| News Flash I |
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| News Flash II |
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Events
| Final Awards Ceremony | | | 20.05.2010 | | |
Watch the video (German, English)
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Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier: Financing for Start-ups
With his overview, Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier provides a tutorial on the key questions in financing covering capital need, profit & loss, balance sheet, cash-flow, financial planning, tips & tricks, sources of funds, investors, exit, valuation, sources for support as well as a case study. |
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Ruedi Gygax: Financing of Start-up Ventures - Principles, Tips and Pitfalls
In his talk, Ruedi Gygax focuses on principles, tips, and pitfalls faced by start-up founders, providing valuable hints and practical advices to entrepreneurs in relation to financial planning in the frame of the business plan. Mr. Gygax also provides examples of the impact on the company's finance once investors come into play. |
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Andreas Emmenegger: Strategic Financing for Start-ups – Tactics & Firsthand Experience
After a brief introduction on Molecular Partners, in his talk, Andreas Emmenegger describes the corporate and funding strategy as it has worked out successfully with his company. Mr. Emmenegger then provides insight into the first round of financing with tips and tricks, hints on how-to, and do's and don'ts in the preparation for a successful venture. |
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Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier: Financing for Start-ups
With his overview, Jean-Pierre Vuilleumier provides a tutorial on the key questions in financing covering capital need, profit & loss, balance sheet, cash-flow, financial planning, tips & tricks, sources of funds, investors, exit, valuation, sources for support as well as a case study. |
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Stavros Therianos: From a Dream Concept to a Real Commercial Purpose
In his talk, Stavros Therianos describes the hard lessons learned during company development focusing on the Principle-of-Reality reflected in lack of money despite a brilliant scientific idea and convincing preliminary results. Looking back, the speaker clearly identifies their success as being based on the execution rather than on the initial idea alone. |
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Alexander Wyss: Corporate Law
In his presentation, Alexander Wyss describes the birth of an AG and GmbH, the day-to-day life of the company, the shareholder's agreement, and the implications of investors coming into the firm from the legal perspective. He is illustrating a variety of relevant issues such as the audit, shareholders meeting, board of directors, capital increase, incentives, term sheet, negotiations, investor rights, dilution, and exit. |
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Nicolas Passadelis: IP Protection - Managing & Exploiting Intellectual Property
Nicolas Passadelis discusses the strategic levels of managing IP, covering organizational and technical strategies, IP acquisition strategies, and enforcing IP strategies. Besides the IP basics, he is covering key issues such as IP creation, licensing, IP policy, IP rights, and application strategies. |
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Jörg Isler: IP Protection - Development of a Patent Portfolio in Particular
In his talk, Jörg Isler discusses the rights conferred by a patent, its value, criteria for patentability, patent specification, claims and the concept of priority. He also talks about patent convention and filing procedure, depending patents, scope of protection, infringement, patent strategy, and portfolio analysis. |
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Beat Walther: Customer Needs - the Holy Grail in Marketing and Innovation
In his talk, Beat Walther reviews innovation in the light of customer needs, showing that many innovative ideas failed due to insufficient understanding of such needs. Identifying the real “pains" that customers have is a challenge for innovation. Beat proposes a simple methodology to understand needs in-depth and translate these insights into strong value propositions and innovative products. The approach has proven to work for large as well as for start-up companies. |
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Martin Bartholet: Our AdVentureOus Experience
In his talk, Martin Bartholet describes the development of his own company Celeroton during the last two years, including the business idea, the foundation as well as the first product sales. Thereby, he describes on one hand the universally applicable technology and on the other hand the different challenges as well as highlights during this period. |
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Jesús Martin-Garcia: From Science to Product
In his talk, Jesús Martin-Garcia describes how science is transformed from an idea into a product through an incubator catalyzing this process. In particular, the speaker addresses a life science case showing the transition from a breakthrough discovery to patients through a unique business model. To that effect he explains how Eclosion operates to help start-ups from science to market. |
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Mathias Terheggen: The Good Business Idea – From Theory to Venture
In his talk, Mathias Terheggen reviews the business idea in the frame of the key elements required to set up a successful company and the stages of the start-up process. The focus of his talk is on revenue generation, customer needs, and the competitive environment. |
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Stephan Knecht: How do I get a Smart Business Idea that Meets the Client Needs?
In his talk Stephan Knecht reveals first-hand founder's experience focusing on lessons learned in setting up his company covering the difficulty in assessing client needs, the need to go out and talk to potential clients, areas of improvements, and evolution and changes since the company's inception. |
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Business plan handbook
Specially written for the Venture competition
by McKinsey & Company, and now in its fourth, expanded edition,
the English edition is called The New Venture Adventure.
The book provides answers to the important questions that
need to be addressed in the founding of a company. The objective
is a professional business plan that can convince venture capitalists,
strategic partners and, not least, potential customers of your business
idea.
The book does not assume special knowledge; business management
is presented in an easy-to-understand way. A case discussion provides
a practical example and there are numerous checklists, graphics
and tables that can be viewed at a glance.
German edition:
260 pages - Ueberreuter Wirt., F.
November 2007
4., aktualis. u. erw. Aufl.
ISBN: 978-3-636-01507-5
CHF 65.- |
This book is temporarily unavailable for sale in bookstores, but copies may be ordered from office@venture.ch
Legal and tax toolkit
Experience shows that most founding teams of young entrepreneurs are especially competent and innovative in technical areas. On the other hand, often they do not have sufficient knowledge about the law and taxes, which could possibly result in a start-up failing.
The handbook provides a clear perspective on legal and taxation issues that occur in the start-up phase of a company. Following the "lifecycle" of a company many examples, checklists and specimen documents deal with the following topics: founding and organizing a company, legal and tax aspects regarding operations, the participation of employees in the company and the financing of a venture.
The Toolkit is made available by Baker & McKenzie and can be ordered there. Please contact Ms. Claudia Schöttle, 044 384 14 14 or send your address information to claudia.schoettle@bakernet.com. Price: CHF 30.-- (including shipping)
Recommended literature
Richard Stutely: The Definitive Business Plan: The fast-track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs (Financial Times Series), 2nd edition, 2002
English version
French version
Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, Kindle Edition, 2004
English version
Financial planning software
Careful financial planning is the core of a solid business plan.
Venture 2010 provides an Excel sheet prepared by specialists at
McKinsey & Company, Switzerland which you can download for free.
Use the file as framework or as a check list for your own model
and calculate your P&L account, balance sheet and liquidity
planning, before you make a presentation.
| Financial planning - German version |
(503 KB) |
| Financial planning - English version |
(547 KB) |
| Financial planning documentation - German version |
(71 KB) |
| Financial planning documentation - English version |
(66 KB) |
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