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·Jul 29, 2020

Rethinking Redundancies — Create Brighter Futures

I’ve recently had the privileged to run a webinar with Lars Buch, Partner MENA & Russia at Rainmaking. Prior to joining Rainmaking, Lar’s spent more than 10 years working at Nokia, heading Smartphones R&D at Nokia DK. When the company ramped down, Lars headed the incubation program called the Bridge, funding and supporting almost 300 new ex-employee driven companies. This is his story: — Every day we wake up to the sad news of another company announcing massive reductions to its workforce, the OECD expects 80 million people to lose their jobs by the end of the year.

Corporate Innovation

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Rethinking Redundancies — Create Brighter Futures
Rethinking Redundancies — Create Brighter Futures
Corporate Innovation

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·Jul 6, 2020

3 Success Tips For FinTech Entrepreneurs

Pablo González, CEO of Sr. Pago, visited our hub during our third week of on-site activities. After a fireside chat with the first batch of Startupbootcamp Scale FinTech Mexico City, Pablo shared with us his Founder’s Journey: an experience full of knowledge and wisdom from one of the Entrepreneurs of The Year (2017) in Mexico. It is a great time to enter FinTech in Latin America, as well as in other emerging markets. Having said that, it is not an…

Startup

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3 Success Tips For FinTech Entrepreneurs
3 Success Tips For FinTech Entrepreneurs
Startup

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·Jul 4, 2020

Startup Spotlight: HireHunt

HireHunt is transforming recruitment one tight timeline at a time. Find out how this HR startup is rocking the status quo with their AI powered solution and discover how support from an accelerator like SBC can make all the difference. In an attempt to solve his pain of not being…

Startup

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Startup Spotlight: HireHunt
Startup Spotlight: HireHunt
Startup

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·Jul 4, 2020

10 Tips to Stay Afloat as a Startup!

Being a founder can be exciting, fun, challenging and well just hard. But there are few easy things each of us can do to make it a little easier. 1 Live leanly (we can still pretend you have an office in the top floor of a high-rise ) As a startup funds are limited and it is important to asses where they would be best spent. Use what you have wisely, you don’t need a large office, or elaborate…

Startup

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10 Tips to Stay Afloat as a Startup!
10 Tips to Stay Afloat as a Startup!
Startup

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·Jul 3, 2020

Ten top questions for idea stage founders

So, you think you’ve spotted an opportunity to create a new business or product/service, you’re about to embark on the rollercoaster journey pouring your three most precious resources in, time, money and energy. — Before you go all in here are some key questions to ask and have clear answers on: 1. Why now — timing is everything Research has shown that the number one reason why new companies are successful is timing. Therefore, why now, what are the factors that mean it is…

Startup

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Ten top questions for idea stage founders
Ten top questions for idea stage founders
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·Jul 3, 2020

5 Success factors for Corporates to back employee spinouts rather than just cutting jobs

Taking the success of the past and making it relevant for today. How HR teams can drive their corporates to pioneer alternative pathways. — 10 years ago, Nokia’s Bridge programme for employees it had made redundant created 300 new startups. Since March 11, over 430 tech startups have laid 50,000 employees off, with many more furloughed. The cuts have hit nearly every industry — including global tech companies like Uber, Lyft and Airbnb —…

Corporate Innovation

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5 Success factors for Corporates to back employee spinouts rather than just cutting jobs
5 Success factors for Corporates to back employee spinouts rather than just cutting jobs
Corporate Innovation

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·Jul 3, 2020

Using redundancy as a way to support startup founders

Making mass redundancies is one task that many HR leaders hope they never have to face, let alone during the greatest economic shock in living memory. — According to leading economists, UK unemployment could rise to 10% or equivalent of 3.5 million people Laying people off at a time when the job market is in free-fall provides unprecedented challenges for companies, the communities they serve and their departing employees. …

Redundancy

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Using redundancy as a way to support startup founders
Using redundancy as a way to support startup founders
Redundancy

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