Inspired by Sean, from Dublin and some kind of startup insider, I loosely follow the Swiss startup scene. What surprised me is that Switzerland is under the top 5 innovative\/supportive countries in Europe (even #1 according to some sources).<\/p>\n
An excellent financial basis is definitively helping, but certainly only one aspect. What is needed is a community and comprehensive facilitation. A comprehensive overview about startup awards<\/a> and support was recently published at startwerk.ch<\/a>, which itself is a portal\/blog around the Swiss startup scene.<\/p>\n Whenever reading about starting a company one of the first advices given is „understand your market“; obviously. So an immediate question would be about size, for instance size of the addressable market in Switzerland for business software (no surprise, I work for a biz software company). One interesting aspect in such research are birth-death rates (growth\/shrink patterns). So the question comes down to: how many companies are taking off and how many file insolvency?<\/p>\n According to research by D&B Schweiz<\/a>, the number of new Swiss company registrations in 2010 is 33550<\/strong> and the number of insolvencies is 5619<\/strong>, with 1645 of them being a legal artifact with no immediate consequence, so to be ignored (details can be found in the report<\/a>). Note, 4000 effective losses is a stable figure since 2006.<\/p>\n Given this one (slightly over-simplified) conclusion a healthy survival probability of p~(1-4000\/33550)~0,88 along with a plus of 25000 companies per year in terms of market size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inspired by Sean, from Dublin and some kind of startup insider, I loosely follow the Swiss startup scene. What surprised me is that Switzerland is under the top 5 innovative\/supportive countries in Europe (even #1 according to some sources). An excellent financial basis is definitively helping, but certainly only one aspect. What is needed is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35,53,54],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts","tag-industry-insight","tag-startup","tag-switzerland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tmb.nginet.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}