Here we write about what moves the startup scene in our region. From a start-up's success story to articles about start-up knowledge, you'll stay up to date here.
Im Webinar „Flächen für wachsende StartUps“ hatte unser Botschafter Martin French von der Wirtschaftsförderung Rostock einiges zur Beschaffung und Anmietung von Flächen im Petto.
Wir freuen uns darauf, dass wir das charaktervolle Bier auf unseren Veranstaltungen ausschenken dürfen und in Zukunft mit der Brauerei zusammenarbeiten
HanseDeeg - that's us: Andreas, a business graduate from Greifswald, Kathi, a psychologist, nutritionist and coach from Berlin, and Dinah, a student from Neubrandenburg. Together, we successfully applied for the EXIST start-up grant of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, which supports innovative technology-oriented start-up projects.
90% of start-ups fail - scary, isn't it? We want to lower this number and drastically increase the number of successful startups in the Northeast. How we, as an association, are going to do that, I'll show you in this post.
On one of these spots, a shoot is germinating that makes Mecklenburg-Vorpommern a highly attractive location for startups: Founder's Bay, accelerator focused on sustainable business ideas.
In this blog article, we not only introduce you to the most important StartUp competitions in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, but also want to hear from you what you thought of them.
A field report by Laura Bormann on the first recorded podcast episode. Oliver Kramer leads a short hour through Laura and Marius' own projects as well as the genesis of Gründungswerft.
The startup scene is much more than the personalities, institutions, startups or actors involved in the startup ecosystem: It is a lifestyle. A lifestyle full of adventures and roller coaster rides, full of self-criticism and explosions of creativity, full of negative and positive feelings during the realization of one's own idea. Full of comrades-in-arms and comrades-in-arms.
When you meet an interesting person who might become relevant for you and your startup, you exchange business cards (at least that's how it was often done in the past). A business card contains a compact overview of the most important information about someone - Who is he/she? What does he/she do? How can you contact him/her?
Good news from the hybrid congress in the Hanseatic city of Hamburg: The umbrella organization (Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V.) is now richer by our initiative from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
In this short blogpost there are some impressions of the workshop in the old Mensa. Together with some great personalities from the startup scene of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern we worked on strategies to develop a holistic startup ecosystem.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wants to be the number 1 health state. But is that even true? And what does it really take to be healthy? 23.5 days per year per employee. Not vacation, no. That is the current level of sick days. In comparison: In Hamburg, for example, it is 15.8 and the national average is 18.4 (iwd 2019). Once again, M-V leads the list of negative examples.
In addition to a strong theoretical focus on bioeconomy topics, Greifswald offers an ever-growing breeding ground for startups in this field. The Gründungswerft would like to bring all partners to one table and network them in the long term in order to contribute to the potential of the location. For this purpose, it is necessary that the needs of founders also become part of regional considerations in the future.
We enjoyed the first Stammtisch in Presence immensely and are overjoyed to have grown into such a great community in just a few months. We will soon expand our mission to other cities in our great state.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is not a state to start up in? Wrong! In this short blog article, I would like to prove to you that Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is exactly the right place to found your start-up, using current figures on the start-up landscape in the northeast.
After just under two weeks, the NØRD came to an end yesterday, Monday. The Gründungswerft was part of the largest digitization congress in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with two events.
On May 28th we had Ulrike Kolley as a guest, who told us about her everyday life at the development studio DJAMACAT in Neubrandenburg.
What do you actually imagine when you think of a bog? Muddy and swampy soils that pull you into their underbelly. No chance to escape! We may know these eerie imaginings from some movies. All scary myths?
Starting a career after graduation is difficult. Especially if you don't know what you really want to do - right? ..and how is it when you study in MV and the opportunities besides your studies are not presented as sexy and easily accessible as in Berlin, Hamburg and co?
Every one of us knows those moments when the radio is playing in the background. Sometimes you're sitting in the car and bawling along to your favorite songs, or you're listening to an exciting report.
They are extremely rare and extremely shy but also admirable and desirable - unicorns. For a long time they were considered a myth, but in recent years more and more of them have appeared... Unicorns are start-up companies with a market valuation, before an IPO or exit, of more than one billion US dollars.
The first warm rays of sunshine pierce the still wintry cloud cover, luring us out of our home-office caves and we hungrily plunge into nature. A walk in the fresh air in the forest around the corner is a welcome change. It has been proven that a walk in the forest lowers stress hormones and improves the immune system, and it's not for nothing that forest bathing is considered medicine in Japan. But how much do we actually know about the green lungs of our ecosystem?
How do you finance an aviation company with a bang-boom-bang tour? On February 24, 2021, we had the likeable founder of jetlite GmbH as a guest in the frame.
Every month, we invite inspiring personalities to share their thoughts. This time on the bridge: Dr. Jonas Flint, founder of Koopango in Rostock.
When they hear the term "start-up", most people probably think of places like San Francisco, New York or Shanghai, and indeed these metropolises are global start-up hotspots (Wirtschaftswoche). But even here, in tranquil Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, there are quite a few interesting start-ups.
On January 11, our partner startup öKohle held its first corporate design workshop, led by Berlin-based designer Jannis Riethmüller. In this blog article you can learn more about the process and the tools.
Three different teams at öKohle are currently researching and working on a sustainable barbecue charcoal made from reeds. Why öKohle is needed at all, what makes it so unique and when you can finally buy it, you can find out in this article.
The Corona-plagued year 2020 is drawing to a close. After four years of silence, the student initiative Gründungswerft will once again launch projects. We are now looking for hard-working co-creators* to join us in bringing the founding event to the students