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Creative business cards – to be remembered

Good business cards reflect your company’s character and strengths. For instance, you can use unusual layouts to immediately come across as creative, forward-thinking and open-minded. You will find inspiration for unique business cards here. more

500 million francs of new money for Swiss startups

Through the holographic technology from WayRay, information is displayed for drivers directly on the car windscreen. Unlike with conventional head-up displays, the information is projected onto the windscreen in such a way that for the driver it looks as though the information was projected directly onto the surrounding area. Alibaba, Porsche, and Hyundai recognised the […] more

How to foster entrepreneurship. A liberal’s critique of the status quo in Switzerland

Ever since Schumpeter’s gale (namely, the concept of creative destruction), liberalism has cultivated an intimate relationship to entrepreneurship – entrepreneurs embody the creative power of free markets, and conversely one assumes entrepreneurs to be inclined to a liberal social order. How does this reciprocal relationship come about? Different explanatory patterns exist. One of them runs […] more

Climate change: an opportunity for innovative people

For several years, the start-up scene has been booming. More and more people are opting for professional independence and trying to implement a potentially profitable business idea. However, as it becomes increasingly difficult to innovate in markets that are often already saturated, the challenges posed by todays issues are opening up new opportunities for talented […] more

Time to expand your business in Asia: what to consider to set-up your business in Singapore

Singapore, the gateway to Asia. With a land area of 721 kmq, Singapore is one of the smallest nations of the world yet consistently ranked among one of the easiest places to doing business. Strategically located at the very heart of Asia, the City-State has established itself as global gateway into other emerging markets in […] more

Credit Suisse now making CHF 200 million of venture capital available to Swiss SMEs

Credit Suisse has announced an expansion of its venture capital vehicle Credit Suisse Entrepreneur Capital AG on the occasion of yesterday’s Entrepreneurs’ Day and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Escher. With the additional capital, the bank wants to further expand its commitment to Switzerland as a center of economic activity and contribute […] more

PassOn – the new way in which assets, in traditional and digital form, are passed on to next generations

Today, there is no easy way to pass on digital assets, such as cryptocurrencies, social media data, images, etc. The Swiss company PassOn Ltd. has dedicated itself to leveraging the latest technologies, to bring a new and simple way for everyone to plan and manage their estate. PassOn’s upcoming estate planning solution and inheritance mechanism […] more

Forming a Company Using Contributions in Kind

If you form a company, you do not necessarily have to pay up the initial share capital in cash, as founders can also pay by contributing assets. Such payments are called contributions in kind. To ensure the value stability of the assets, they must meet certain specific requirements and be subject to some special verification. more

Revolutionary way to get funded: ICO Roundups (Infographic)

Initial coin offerings, or ICOs for short, are the latest craze in the cryptocurrency world. Despite being just a couple of years old, ICOs have managed to attract a lot of attention. It seems that in the past few months every news outlet had something to say about them, both good and bad. Some praise […] more

How Blockchain is making the logistics industry transparent

The logistics and supply chain industry has been one of the main fields for Blockchain adoption in the past few years. In 2018, the number of companies looking into the technology to ease the process of delivery and make the supply chain more traceable will likely continue to grow rapidly, as the latest players to announce plans for Blockchain […] more