Author: Melanie Stuetz

What you can learn from venture capital professionals is an official activity of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) in the USA. GEW is an international movement to empower entrepreneurs and help make it possible for anyone, anywhere to start and scale.

Get your personal link to attend the virtual event on November 10th at 10 am (PST) with a free registration now at info@ideascanner.com (subject GEW2021) or just regrister below.

Global Entrepreneurship Week takes place simultaneously in over 180 countries and was founded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. We, from IDEASCANNER, share the Kauffman Foundation’s focus on innovations that advance education and entrepreneurship.

IDEASCANNER invites you again this year as an official partner of the Gründungswoche Deutschland to the interactive online event: “What you can learn from venture capital professionals – From quick test for business ideas to entrepreneurial thinking”. Register now here for free for Wednesday, 2021/17/11, 2:00-2:30 pm. More information here.

Why do most startups fail? What makes a successful business model? How can a business idea be improved? In this event you will learn first hand:
1. which mistakes you can avoid,
2. what you should pay attention to and
3. when it is worthwhile to implement a business idea.

Gründungswoche Deutschland is a campaign of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The RKW Competence Center is responsible for the nationwide organization.

The Gründungswoche Deutschland is the largest event nationwide to strengthen entrepreneurship and start-ups. It is also part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, which takes place simultaneously in over 180 countries.

IDEASCANNER is the digital tool in corporate innovation & entrepreneurship education to foster entrepreneurial thinking.

IDEASCANNER is now part of the “Certificate Program for Start-up Consultants” of Denkfabrik, the think tank for universities & entrepreneurship!

On Oct. 29th & 30th, 2021 the most important tools and methods in start-up consulting will be presented in module 4 by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Wrobel (Coburg University), Prof. Dr. Manuela Weller (THM, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen), Brigitte Kauer (Consultant for Start-up Center, OTH Regensburg), Melanie Stütz (CEO, IDEASCANNER) and colleagues of the Denkfabrik.

Thanks to Prof. Dr. Helmut Wittenzellner (Stuttgart Media University) and and the entire Denkfabrik team for organizing this Startup Business Consultant Training in cooperation with FGF, Förderkreis Gründungs-Forschung. The FGF is the leading and most member-strong scientific association for entrepreneurship, innovation and SMEs in German-speaking countries.

The certificate program is designed for both beginners and professionals in the field of academic start-up consulting. Further information, also including registration, is available here.

The UNESCO Working Group on Information Accessibility (WGIA) has invited Melanie Stütz to talk about how IDEASCANNER is “Democratizing the Knowledge of Successful Venture Capitalists (VCs) – From a ‘Pre-flight Check’ for Business Ideas to Entrepreneurial Thinking” on 09/28, 11 a.m. (CET) at the Artificial Intelligence for Information Accessibility Conference (AI4IA). Be part of the discussion and register now here.

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 09/28 as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI). For more information visit the websites of the AI4IA Conference & UNESCO

UPDATE: Check the pre-recorded line-up now on YouTube!

In the course of digitalization, the role of the company advisory board is also becoming increasingly crucial. The IHK Magazine interviewed Melanie Stütz from IDEASCANNER about this, who sees her role here as Advocatus Diaboli: “Before taking up an advisory board position, I tell the management quite clearly that I will consciously take the position of the ‘opposite side’ in order to move it forward.” Read the full article here.

jumpp and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) invite you to the panel discussion with: Lajla Fetic (Bertelsmann Foundation), Melanie Stütz (IDEASCANNER) and many more at the digital expert event “Diversity in AI Development – Migrant Women Join the Mix” on 09/09. Register now for free and join the discussion: https://www.jumpp.de/ki.

“To develop the best ideas, make a critical new assumption: There is no box”, so Chuck Swoboda in his article on Forbes. We highly recommend reading the article, if anyone ever tells you again to “think outside the box”. Let us know, what you think about this and contact us!

Recently, Andreas G. Stütz was invited to the University of Passau for a guest lecture on “What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Venture Capitalists”. Now the Heidelberg University invites to “How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Business Models” with Melanie Stütz as speaker. This online event is part of the STARTUP SCHOOL by hei_INNOVATION and is also open to the public. Click here to register for July 20, 5 pm!

In a guest article, the entrepreneur and pilot couple Melanie and Andreas G. Stütz describe how new forms of team collaboration, problem identification and business idea evaluation can systematically lead to new solutions for social problems. Read the blog here!

“Today we want to share 8 of the motivation clusters that we found to cause people to share so that you can use them to engineer your product to make it more shareable and more viral,” so James Currier from NFX. When you read this excellent article, you’ll understand why virality is also an attribute we use to scan business ideas with IDEASCANNER.