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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.

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.

The ITU Liaison Office at the UN, UN ICC, ITU Americas and the Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth have invited Melanie Stütz to be part of their UN Girls and Women Talking Tech Interview Series with women in technology that are role models and leaders. Check the interview together with Lu Han, Senior – University of California Santa Barbara.

IDEASCANNER will again be present at this year’s Digitaltag for business and innovation as well as education and science. Register now for June 18th, 10.30-11.00 a.m.: What you can learn from VCs – From the digital quick test for business ideas to entrepreneurial thinking!