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What a buzz during our 30min Ideation Hackathon by SolutionHack this Wednesday! We brought together a diverse group of people from business, tech, design and academia to tackle two challenges: 1. Our challenge from Jennifer von Walderdorff, founder of Look at the Labels: How might we retrieve used, unwanted clothes from customers in an eco-friendly way? 👚 2. Our challenge from Sebastian Castro, founder of Larval: How might we improve food security in the European Union and reduce dependence on imports? 🍎 The task: in only 30 Minutes, define a clear target group you aim to support and discuss a specific problem they face within these challenges. Next: find a way to solve it. And we weren‘t short on innovative ideas. 10 teams pitched, enacted and told stories about the outcomes of their joint ideation. A big congratulations at this point to the winner: Team Green Top, aiming to solve the challenge of food security through creating roof top gardens for local produce. Fantastic job Jan Kopankiewicz, @Kumar Reddy, Amadou Bello Paul Guede, and Frédéric - Ferrera 👏🎉 A big thank you also to our partners: Le Wagon Germany for their wonderful location and hospitality and Founder Institute Berlin / Germany, Ferdinand Mühlhäuser 🇺🇦🌍 & Rikke Klitskov, who are taking early ideas to the next level in their incubator program. As all our events, none of them would be possible without Eduardo Roldan Isaac on my side. A big thanks to you and I’m already excited about preparing the next 30min Ideation Hackathon together. What’s next? 🚀 Our next Ideation Hackathon together with Norbert Herrmann from the Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe will happen in August. Watch out for invitations & tickets on our channels. 💡 Future events are already in planning. You want to collaborate as a sponsor or partner on one of them? Reach out! Thank you to all participants and new connections, hope to see you again soon Xiaobo W., Azhir Ahmadi, Hannah Böhm, Fankhänel, Valentina M., Bruno Moschetto, Johannes Zemlin and many more! #innovation #ideation #hackathon #ideationhackathon #solutions #problemspace #connections #collaboration

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined forces with Fired Up Space to offer my founder coaching to support to aspiring entrepreneurs! 🌟 Thank you, Clara Hahn and Malte Rauch, for bringing me on board. I'm excited to "making change work". Starting a business is an exhilarating yet challenging journey. It’s not uncommon to hit personal barriers and face numerous new responsibilities all at once. You might even find yourself questioning, “Is this idea really worth pursuing?” or “Am I the right person to start a business?” As a founder coach, I'm here to support you as an aspiring founder along the way. I’ll help you prioritise, take those crucial first steps, and build confidence in your business idea and your role as an entrepreneur. How founder coaching can help you? 💚 Gain Confidence in Your Business Idea: Validate your idea strategically, quickly, and at low cost. 🔎 Gain Clarity: Identify your next steps and build a roadmap towards your business goals. ❓ Overcome Personal Barriers: Tackle fears and challenges related to founding a business. 👥 Reach Your Customers: Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and how to meet them. Why me? 🔹 Experience: I have previously founded my own business and am familiar with the challenges and personal struggles of founding a business. 🔹 Expertise: With an academic background in entrepreneurship and innovation management, I bring a strategic toolkit to guide you effectively. 🔹 Proven Track Record: As an innovation and startup coach, I’ve successfully guided many entrepreneurs in validating their early-stage ideas, working with global incubator and accelerator programs. Who is Fired Up Space? FiredUp is an accredited educational provider. Their Job and Founder Coaches are dedicated to helping you find a career that truly resonates with you. If you’re registered as a job seeker in Germany (Agentur für Arbeit or Jobcenter), my coaching services are free of charge. Ready to take the next step in your entrepreneurial journey? Let’s connect! Book an intro call with me today and let’s turn your business idea into reality. If you have an AVGS voucher, book an intro via Fired Up (link in comment). #Entrepreneurship #FounderCoaching #Startup #Innovation #FiredUp #NewBeginnings #IdeaValidation #IdeationCoaching

Great to be coach for Vision Health Pioneers Incubator 's current cohort of early-stage founders! I'm excited to dive deeper into the design thinking process, focusing on understanding users through empathy, being open to fail and iterate in order to find a solution that solves clear needs. And especially because I am passionate about improving and innovating in the health sector. Looking forward to getting to know the founders and their unique ideas! Thank you Kseniia Choni for brining me on board and Neeva Kaliebe for onboarding me smoothly.

What an incredible demo day from the startups at SIBB Startups Incubator! 🎉 Huge congratulations to all the teams who delivered fantastic pitches after a rigorous 10-month program. Your growth and the innovative projects you presented yesterday were truly inspiring! Special shoutout to the amazing SIBB team: Urte Zahn, Ron SIBB, Etta Dannemann, and Mario Liebrenz. Your support and expertise shone through in the impressive progress of the cohort. 🌟 I'm also thrilled to collaborate with you on the SIBB Startup Bootcamp, an 8-week pre-incubator program by EIT Digital, uniquely offered in Germany by SIBB Startup. Both programs embody the core values of SIBB Startup—diversity, mentorship, wellbeing, and championing female founders. It’s a privilege to witness and contribute to this spirit in my workshops and sessions with each team. And thank you to Le Wagon Germany and Eduardo Roldan Isaac for hosting this great evening. For those at the early stages of their entrepreneurial journey, SIBB’s applications for the next Incubator cohort are still open until July 11th. Don’t miss this chance to accelerate your startup! #Entrepreneurship #Incubator #StartupCoach #StartupBootcamp #Pitch #Mentorship #FemaleFounders ZULA Patentiv sci2sci Robotikos Hannah Ziemer

Ideas don’t happen in isolation. Innovation needs collaboration. Join us for our next 30min Ideation Hackathon on July 10th to experience that collaboration 🚀 Together with Eduardo Roldan Isaac and Le Wagon Germany, I'm excited to invite you to our July event. At SolutionHack, we bring together diverse people from business & tech to tackle challenges in a fast-paced, 30min Ideation Hackathon (no coding skills needed). Last month we explored how we might improve Sustainable Urban Mobility. Which challenge comes next? Register for free and find out during the event. 🗓️ 10th July 2024 📍Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 26, 10969 Berlin 👥 Everyone welcome, no requirements on experience 🔗 Limited spots available! Register here: https://lnkd.in/eiNZuR8H What you’ll get out of the event? 💡New ideas and a mindset of quick ideation 🤝 Meaningful connections & network 👥 Potentially new team members or co-founders for your own ideas For our July edition we’re partnering with Founder Institute Berlin / Germany, an early-stage Startup Accelerator. The intense but incredibly valuable program led by Ferdinand Mühlhäuser 🇺🇦🌍, Rikke Klitskov and Kai Malkwitz is where early ideas are turned into solid business cases. So, if you’re interested to learn more, make sure to attend and meet with them during the open networking. ---------- If you’re an organisation or company and want to partner for an Ideation Hackathon or even set up your own internally, reach out.

How would you deliver your value proposition if not through your current or planned product? Here‘s the thing. We love thinking in solutions. We get stuck on ideas and then want to build them asap 💡 ⚙ Let me challenge you to something new, as I did during my recent workshop with startup teams at SIBB (EIT Digital) Startup Bootcamp: Think about how you can deliver your value proposition in a simpler, quicker way than building it. How can you do it manually? How would you do it if you wouldn't have anyone to build it? The possibilities are endless. YOU could be the AI finding the right answers to your customers questions. You could stitch together existing, separate tools to explore what a platform would look like. Don‘t just think of a prototype or an MVP as one tiny part of your product but a simplified version of your value proposition. What do you come up with? Let me know about creative experiments in the comments or connect to chat about them. 📸 My virtual workshop setup & a sunny behind the scenes. #Innovation #Experiments #Entrepreneurship #TestingBusinessIdeas #IdeaValidation

How might we improve Sustainable Urban Mobility in Berlin? Maybe with a “good”, data-enhanced BVG app or smart glasses? Last week Wednesday, we explored that challenge in an Ideation Hackathon that I organised at Le Wagon Germany's offices, and we were amazed by the creative energy during the evening! Huge thanks to LeWagon and Eduardo Roldan Isaac for partnering with us and providing the perfect space 🙌 We brought together a dynamic mix of innovative minds from various backgrounds including tech, data science, UX/UI, product design, entrepreneurship, and business. The energy in the room was palpable as we embarked on a 30-minute sprint to tackle the challenge of 'Sustainable Urban Mobility in Berlin.' Stimulated by some thought-provoking questions, our teams came up with fantastic pitches, including ideas around: - Virtual commuting - Smart glasses guiding your navigation - A new, “good” & data enhanced BVG App The creativity and enthusiasm were truly inspiring, and who knows, there might be something there for further exploration! 🌟 Congratulations to the winning team Marc Saad, Munnawar Hashim & Bryan Quandt. What's Next? 📅 Save the Date: Our next Ideation Hackathon will be on July 10th. Location to be announced soon. Already excited? Sign up now! (link in the comments) 🤝 Get Involved: Interested in setting up an Ideation Hackathon together with us and posing your own challenge? Let's connect and discuss how we can make it happen! Thank you again to everyone who participated and made this event a success. Looking forward to innovating with you all again soon! 🚀✨ #Hackathon #Innovation #Ideation #SustainableMobility #Berlin #TechCommunity #Ideation #Entrepreneurship

Hosting a 30min Ideation Hackathon at Le Wagon Germany on Wednesday! The goal? Encourage innovative thinking, new connections between tech and business experts, and stimulating a mindset of ideation 💫 When: 12th June 2024, 6.30pm Where: Rudi-Dutschke Straße 26, 10969 Berlin Le Wagon Germany Thank you, Eduardo Roldan Isaac, for supporting this 🙏 Grab the last tickets here: https://lnkd.in/eDNxiQSg.. See you on Wednesday!

"People cannot predict their own behaviour." What we hear in customer interviews is not necessarily an indicator for how people will behave. Especially when it comes to their willingness to pay; it's just a starting point. We have to do experiments to learn about actual behaviour. In my recent Workshop at SIBB Startups, I helped the startup teams delve into the intricacies of customer jobs, pains, and gains, setting the stage with key assumptions. The task at the end: conduct 8 customer discovery interviews over two weeks to validate (or invalidate) these assumptions. 💡 One of the standout lessons? Customers often can't predict their own actions. What they say in interviews is just the beginning. The real insights come from observing and experimenting to uncover true behaviour patterns. 🌟 Here’s a pro tip: Instead of relying solely on what customers say they will do, ask about what they currently do and the solutions they've already paid for. This approach paints a more accurate picture of their genuine needs and habits. By embracing this strategy, you can develop products that genuinely resonate with your target audience, paving the way for a more successful market fit. #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #CustomerDiscovery #Interviews #UserResearch Thank you, Etta, for the picture during this busy day. And thanks to the rest of the SIBB Startups team, Urte, Ron & Mario, for this fantastic program. ---------------------------------------- I deliver workshops and coaching for (aspiring) entrepreneurs & companies to guide them from innovative idea to validated business case. Are you a program manager in an incubator, accelerator, university, or company? Or an entrepreneur looking for support? Let’s connect.