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Here is how to screw up building a startup based on my own experiences – and how you can do better than me

Breaking into VC can be hard – here are some learnings. Spoiler: It comes down to thinking about your own unfair advantage.

What is not missing in an industry are the people that come from that industry – and why you should consider VC as a STEM graduate!

Entrepreneur First runs a TIER-1 startup accelerator program. Here is what I learned after being part of their 8th Berlin cohort in 2021.

Written on September 7, 2020 Two weeks after starting my Ph.D. at TU Dresden, I attended my first conference as a Ph.D. student. It wasn’t a specialist research conference, though. The “Second Conference on Student… Read More »Three Years of #StuFoExpo at TU Dresden

Written on July 11, 2020 Corona has turned the world upside down in the last couple of months. Or, better say, from outside to inside, and suddenly, we found ourselves as part of an experiment in… Read More »Hybrid Teaching 101 Goes Startnext

Written on May 25, 2020 Every time you undertake research, you create new knowledge about our world and, thus, new data. The challenge is how to store and manage all of this data for later… Read More »Research Data Goes Cloud

I have to admit this country wasn’t on my bucket list. For sure, I had heard of it before from the media, but mostly in the context of political repression, censorship, and sometimes also its… Read More »Coming in from the Cold

Early study sometimes sounds too good to be true. So there are pupils who want to learn something of their own accord, who attend lectures at a university in their free time, and who voluntarily… Read More »A Game-Changer for Future Education

20 Years of Early Study in Germany In 1999, one of the most exciting experiments in the modern promotion of gifted children started in Germany: Pupils in the upper grades of high school received the… Read More »From Classroom into Lecture Hall