Whether you have already built a successful company, are sweating tears and blood assembling your first team, an investor searching for the next unicorn, or are simply curious and want to learn about life as an entrepreneur, this is your chance!

We restart our regular series of meetings, during which you will get chances to network, listen to fascinating company presentations and learn from the biggest failures ever made. All in a convivial atmosphere.
We explicitly welcome everyone interested in the fascinating world of entrepreneurship.

We will welcome Markus Seiser from SCOSH in our „hot“ seat.

SCOSH, the foldable clothes hanger is revolutionising clothes storage. Markus, inspired by personal experience and the legacy of his inventive father, developed SCOSH to protect clothing and make it easier to use. The hanger saves time, can be operated with one hand and is suitable for travelling. After a successful concept test and the challenge of prototype development, Markus found a production facility in China and financed the first batch on his own. Even though he did not receive any investment in the TV show ‘2 Minuten 2 Millionen’, he made valuable contacts. SCOSH is manufactured in an environmentally friendly way from recyclable ABS plastic, and further sustainable options are planned. Markus‘ vision remains: to make the storage of clothing sustainable and contribute to reducing the throwaway culture.

Agenda:

• 18:00 – 18:30 Welcome
• 18:30 – 19:00 Hot Seat with Markus Seiser
• 19:00 – 20:00 Entrepreneur Exchange
• 20:00 – open Drinks at Flanagan’s Irish Pub (feel free to join)

What is the Hot Seat?
Our goal is to learn from each other, and we believe that we can learn most from challenges others have overcome and „failures“ that they themselves learned from.
We run the hot seat in two steps: Firstly, the guest Entrepreneurs will give us a short intro into their startup and share some of their learnings/fails. Secondly, we will go into an open discussion with the group to ask questions and challenge the Entrepreneurs ideas.

What is the Entrepreneur Exchange?
We will use elements from liberatingstructures.com to facilitate active exchanges between our participants. Everybody should have both the opportunity to learn from other Entrepreneurs and to share their knowledge with others.

About the location
The Startup Academy is a non-profit association that connects startups throughout Switzerland with the business world and universities. If you have a business idea, are interested in entrepreneurship and innovation, want to return to work after a career break or maternity leave or dream of becoming self-employed during a permanent position, then you are very welcome at the Startup Academy. startup-academy.ch

We are looking forward to welcoming you

Alexandre and Patric                           Markus
BASEL ENTREPRENEURSHIP       STARTUP ACADEMY BASEL