StartUs Weekly Round Up #37

A warm welcome to all of you on this rather cold day! We hope all is well and you’re looking forward to your weekend. But before you head off, get some updates about trending new businesses, advice from investors and take a tour around this week’s entrepreneurial hub!

Weekly Round Up #37 At StartUs Magazine

Geneva Startup City Guide

Seems like Switzerland is working its way into our Startup City Guides. After Lausanne last week, Geneva is in this this week’s spotlight. As a well positioned city with a high quality of life, Geneva could be your next stop on the startup road. Get to know the community, meet people at events, explore co-working spaces, find investors and mentors – all in one place!

Think your city should be the next one we present? Get in touch and let’s do this!

StartUs Presents

StartUs Presents offers three different and promising startups to you:

Datawitz.io improves your retail sale approaches through advanced math. CEOs Volodymyr and Xiangting Nepyuk spoke to us about their produce & how it works, about their crazy ideas and why it’s important to keep moving.
Guh is the startup that stands behind Tune, a device that allows you to control all your home infrastructure from a single point. Simon Hönegger, co-founder, explains how this devices differs from others and why smart living is the future.
Printivate, a SaaS platform, provides services to optimize 3D models for 3D printing – fully automatic! CEO Adrian Muresan gives insights to integration of the service and the main idea behind it.

The entrepreneurial person we interviewed this week is Sam Pavin. He describes himself as the “swiss-knife” of business and currently is involved with Nameloop, where he’s also focusing on social media and marketing. Find out what he’s working on, what drives him and what advice he has for you!

For the first time we feature an interview with a co-working space or rather the founder of it. We’d like to introduce Isabelle Richard, a French expat living in Vienna where she founded Talent Flow – a working space that allows you to get your creativity flowing. Isabelle explains her motivations, biggest challenges and future plans.

Make sure you don’t miss these interviews! And in case you want to tell your story: simply request an interview!

Articles You’ll Enjoy Reading

Apart from the City Guide and interviews we also provide you with valuable infos to grow and develop your business. So here are our tup 4 articles of this week – enjoy!

• The power of supreme timing will not only help you on a personal but also on a professional level. Timing can be everything when it’s not based on luck: “right place at the right time” – take action and control your luck!
• As you know StartUs not only addresses job seekers and startup enthusiasts but also recruiters. If you are a recruiter and want the best fit talent for your firm that are willing to give their everything here are 5 traits you have to have in order to win them over.
• From the side of a startup you might want to know more about investing. Wouldn’t it be great if you could foresee the future and tell what’s going to happen in ten years? Good news: we spotted the trends and share them with you. Find out what will happen to startup investing in 2025!
• Last but not least: marketing. We reviewed a very underrated tool in the scene: Twitter. But not only that, we’ll also give you tips on how to generate leads, press and links. Make sure to check them out to get the best out of your social media work!

And What About StartUs?

StartUs’ Twitter Account: #3 In Austria!

Speaking of Twitter, we are very happy to officially announce that the StartUs’ Twitter account made it to rank #3 in Austria, according to the APA OTS Twitter Ranking.
The next stop will be rank #2 – watch out Ars Electronica! (;

If you like what we’re doing please follow us so we can reach our new goal even faster. Thank you!

StartUs Rank #3 APA OTS Twitter List

Hub Reporter

Yes, we also have a new hub reporter to introduce!

Say hello to Vasken Spriu, author of the Tirana Startup City Guide and now joining us for more reports. Vasken is in charge of the Albanian biggest bank digital presence also writes for his recently launched blog, covering tech, startup & social media matters. Also he is one of the co-founders of GARAZH, the albanian innovation hub.

You also want to share interesting stories from your hub? Then get in touch right away and become a reporter for StartUs Magazine!

Headline Of The Week

To end this week’s round up: our personal headline of the week.
It’s a phrase you can add to your StartUs profile, giving people an idea of what you’re all about.
The quote we feature here is chosen by our staff out of the many profiles online at StartUs.

“The work is more than the work” by Noriko Funakawa

Have an awesome weekend and see you next Friday for more updates!

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