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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

We’ll continue on our “road to wavespace”. Only two months until etventure will launch the new wavespace in Berlin Kreuzberg together with EY. Laura Kohler, partner at etventure and Head of wavespace & Startup Ecosystem, is in charge of this major project. In our interview she gives insights into the large-scale project #wavespaceBerlinXBerg. Laura has many years of experience in coordinating startup and digital projects.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Meet, mingle & connect! Business Matchmaking events are a great platform to establish valuable connections and unique business opportunities. Whether you are a startup looking for the next customer or a corporate that seeks startup cooperation. Such events are a powerful networking experience for various stakeholders. What is a Matchmaking event?

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

What is a Startup Accelerator? A startup accelerator support startups’ economic growth. These programs usually help young companies by offering funding, business and tech support over a short period of time. Several programs focus additionally on corporate and startup collaboration. 3 reasons why you should participate. etventure runs the European Data Incubator (EDI) together with 20 international Partners from 10 different countries.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Berlin has gained a new innovation hotspot: On Wednesday evening in the heart of Kreuzberg the new wavespace was officially opened by etventure and EY, guests of honour such as Brigitte Zypries, former Federal Minister, as well as 200 other guests from business and the start-up scene. A milestone for etventure and EY and an enrichment for the capital. “We need places like this if we want our companies to continue to be among the world’s leading” Innovation and co-creation on mo

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

At the Data Natives Conference in Berlin for three days it was all about data, technologies and innovation: 4 stages, more than 100 speakers and around 1,600 visitors. This year etventure was also part of the event, represented by Principal Marc Weimer-Hablitzel. In his speech “Big Data is dead” he explained how companies can generate real added value from their data.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Corporate incubator meets “real start-ups”: During the mvp Demo Day on February 20, the teams of co-pace, Continental’s mvp.Builder incubation program, presented the mvp’s they’ve been developing for the past 4 months on site at wavespace Berlin. This program was facilitated by the etventure and wavespace team here. This incubation program focused on: transformation of the automotive industry, disruptive technologies and mobility solutions.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

wavespace Berlin Kreuzberg offers startups and corporates the opportunity to work together in modern premises and labs, to network and create innovations together. Who these “residents” are and what topics and technologies they work on, we would like to present in our “wavespace Residents” series. To kick off the series, we have an interview with the founder and managing director of Airteam Aerial Intelligence , Thomas Gorski, who along with his team launched the “R

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MARCH 5, 2019

January & February saw two events around the themes of Energy and IoT in the Automotive Sector. The “Future of Energy” in January was 2019’s first edition of our meetup series the “Future of Industries” It takes a deep dive into a selected industry and engages with various stakeholders within the Berlin ecosystem around current questions with a focus on the role of Digital Transformation.

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MARCH 11, 2019

etventure Startup Hub fosters the collaboration between corporates and startups in various ways and is also partnered with Startup Lighthouse , a project that helps startups scale into different European markets. Each partner organizes “Deep Dive Weeks” in different cities all over Europe – a week full of workshops and meetings with potential clients and investors.

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APRIL 24, 2019

At the beginning of April, wavespace Berlin Kreuzberg again filled up with numerous guests – this time to listen to the hotly discussed topic “Platform Economics” Three representatives with first-hand expertise were guests: Sarik Weber, Chief Digital Officer of the traditional company Ottobock, Product Manager Marc Pudelski of the SMS Group and Stephan Heller, founder and CEO of the startup FinCompare.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Our series “wavespace Residents” enters the second round. This time we present the startup of Berlin Hyp, OnSite ImmoAgent GmbH, with its managing director Viola Siedler. A lot of time is spent and, in the end, no suitable real estate is available – a situation that Berlin Hyp’s customers, owners and investors of commercial real estate, know well.

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MAY 20, 2019

What kind of concepts and products can we develop from collected data? The EU project EDI (European Data Incubator) aims to develop data-based business models and use new technologies across countries and industries. Over the last eight months, numerous teams from different European countries have addressed this issue. “EDI has enabled us to transform our business”.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Berlin has established itself as one of the most important startup hubs in Europe over the past years. Its digital economy is booming – the economic federation partner “Berlin Partner” estimates that around 300.000 new jobs will be created in the next 15 years. But how can you scale your startups business into the German market in a successful way?

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Digital transformation in businesses – a compass to help navigate the journey into the digital world. In the coming weeks, this will be the place where various guest authors from etventure’s different business units, along with other experts, will express their opinions about this topic. Dr. Birte Gall, Founder and Managing Director of the Berlin School of Digital Business explains why the dawn of the digital world cannot be avoided.

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JUNE 30, 2016

The next three years will be significantly more important and decisive for companies than the previous 50 years – this was the conclusion reached by a study that surveyed 1,500 CEOs. This striking conclusion shows the high level of importance that business leaders around the world are now attaching to digitization and the associated technological advances.

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MARCH 15, 2018

While Virtual Reality (VR) only offers a key to a new world, Augmented Reality (AR) “expands” the world we live in. Thereby, the technology provides helpful context information or adds features to an existing application. But why is there currently such a hype surrounding AR applications? And are there already any existing use cases of AR with serious commercial value?

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MARCH 9, 2018

Cognitive biases are mostly unconscious, systematic distortions of our perceptions, decisions and judgements. Our ideation experts show why biases are relevant for generating ideas and give tips on how their influence can be reduced. Heuristics: abbreviations of the brain. Every day, more than 5 trillion bytes of data are generated – and the number is constantly increasing.

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MARCH 2, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development. In the second part of the series they show how to set up an experiment on the basis of a hypothesis.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development. In the first part of the series, we show why and how to define a verifiable hypothesis as the starting point for an experiment.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development. In the first part of the series, we show why and how to define a verifiable hypothesis as the starting point for an experiment.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Product development is confronted with the constant challenge of supplying the customer with a product that exactly meets his needs. In our new blog series, etventure’s product managers provide an insight into their work and approach. The focus is on hypothesis-driven product development – an approach that is oriented primarily towards the “Lean Startup” philosophy.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Almost all companies are occupied with the issue of digital transformation. New studies appear almost daily that aim to demonstrate the importance CEOs and managers from all sectors attach to digital transformation. So far, so good. The solution appears to be attractively simple to some business leaders. You just set up a working group, launch some digital projects under the auspices of the IT department and off you go.

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JULY 6, 2017

Interview with mobileJob.com CEO Steffen Manes on Google’s entry into the jobs market. Steffen – one has the impression that the recruitment business is currently holding its breath. The reason for this is that Google is entering the jobs market. What has happened? For a long time, there have been rumors that Google could consider the jobs sector attractive enough to develop its own offer there.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

What is the state of digitization in the German banking sector? In order to answer this question, FinTechCube carried out the benchmark study “Digital Transformation of Banks”. More than 30 banks and around 200 private customers were surveyed for this. In this interview, Gregor Puchalla, CEO of FinTechCube , presents the key findings of the study. In your view, what is the key finding of the study?

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JULY 21, 2017

Fewer and fewer German founders are motivated to move to the USA. Whereas just a year ago 32% wanted to launch their startup there, according to a current Bitkom survey this figure declined by more than one-half to only 15%. By contrast, Germany is becoming increasingly attractive as a startup location. “Trump Effect” scares away potential founders.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

What is an MVP? Why is it important for your business? In our beginner’s guide to MVPs our Head of Product, Gregor Ilg, explains what a minimum viable product is, how it is developed and how it can help companies to enhance innovation. Introduction. When you join a roadmap meeting and you hear people talking about the “MVP”, you better make sure they are actually talking basketball before you throw in your favorite Michael Jordan story.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

What is Two-Speed IT? How can it accelerate time-to-market? In “The Business of Two-Speed IT” our Head of Technology, Martin Rudloff, explains Two-Speed IT for business leaders. As a leader, you are well aware of the pressure to drive innovation within your business. However, you may have had some unpleasant experiences in the past – where you fell short of your objectives, or even had an outright disaster!

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

What did September bring in the way of digitization news? It is the end of the month and, as usual, we are providing an overview of the most important topics in the media. This blog covers Daimler’s digital offensive, the need for changes to corporate culture, and the advantages of digitization in respect to social equality. Daimler restructures its company for digitization ( FAZ ).

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

“There is no such thing as the digital revolution.” That is what Hans-Werner Feick announced recently in his column on the business portal website BILANZ. All this about companies being in a huge transition because of digitization, about disruption in the ‘old economy’ because of new, agile, digital competitors – none of it is true, he says. Feick cannot see any evidence for a digital revolution.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Businesses have been using the same formula to develop strategies for many years. However, is this formula still valid in today’s fast-paced business environment? etventure’s Andreas Stark, Vice President North America, explores this question – and provides a fresh take on how to approach digital strategy. As a business leader, you’ve probably been through the development of at least one strategy or “five-year plan”.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

All the metrics you use to measure success indicate that you are doing just fine – So why “Go Digital”? etventure’s CEO for North America, Lukas Bower, provides some context – and clarifies why business leaders should not only “Go Digital”, but make innovation a top priority. Asleep at the Wheel. Years ago, I worked in the TV and film industry.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

What makes the young, digitally savvy target group ‘tick’ when it comes to insurance? This is the question addressed by W&W Digital , the joint venture between Wüstenrot & Württembergische and etventure, together with the market researchers at MSR Insights. The ‘Insurance for Digital Natives’ study provides some indications. By using traditional sales channels and offering standard insurance products, insurance companies are losing touch with younger target groups.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Another month has passed, so it’s time to look back. What were the top issues relating to digitization in October? This month’s overview looks at the investment that is needed in Germany’s schools in order to prepare the younger generation for the digital future. It also considers the kind of jobs that will still be available in the future. Another hot topic last month was the lack of transparency at Google and Facebook, and the lack of data protection provided by WhatsApp and Yahoo.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In this article, etventure’s Head of Product Gregor Ilg will take a closer look at the buzzword “Agile” – and de-mystify Agile in a business context. Agile development has been around since the 90s, and became popular shortly after the turn of the millennium, when the Manifesto for Agile Software Development was formulated and signed by Kent Beck and 16 fellow software developers.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Blockchain is receiving a lot of attention, and is making inroads into the enterprise space. But what is Blockchain exactly, and why is it important? In the following blog, etventure’s Lukas Bower explains Blockchain – for an executive audience. What is Blockchain? In brief, Blockchain is the technical foundation of Bitcoin – the well-known crypto-currency with shadowy origins.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Friedrich Arnold, Senior Project Manager at etventure, explains how manufacturers can embrace the Lean Startup methodology as the centerpiece of their Digital Transformation. The Proud Leader. On a recent client visit to a German OEM of construction machinery, the CEO and the Head of Production gave me a tour of the shop floor – where the final assembly and inspection take place.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

Once again, we look back and examine the latest exciting digitization-related news. This month provided even more clarity about the way that digital players are moving in and occupying interfaces for interacting with clients. In this vein, we will focus on the examples of German public authorities and the hotel sector. We will also address the issue of how much politics should intervene to protect business models that are being threatened by startups.

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