People talk all the time about energy and if you listen careully they actually mean electricity. Energy use is mainly about heat which makes 50% of the total energy use. The energy use is mainly dived in these three areas — for heating 50% , electricity 20% and other like transportation etc 30%. Some 50% of the Austrian energy consumption is used for heating…

On the first evening of the Startup Weekend Vienna we will have the one-minute pitch. While pitching on Friday is optional, each participant will have the chance to share their idea and inspire other participants to join her team. So what is a Pitch, anyway? A pitch is the presentation of a business idea to potential…

WeDO5 launches its first Women Impact Virtual Incubator “The GoodStartup School” Thousands of startups are founded everyday around the world aiming to solve new and unsolved challenges. However, there is still an acute shortage of women in the startup sector: In Austria, only 9 percent of startups have a female…

You said sit down I want to tell you smth. I sat and you said „Xx xxxxx xxx xxx Xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx“ And then you kept talking. I have no clue what you said after that. My brain froze, my heart stating pumping faster , my ears only listening to a…

I hear all the time that women are risk-averse. Have you ever thought about the risks a marriage brings? — Have you ever thought of the risks of a marriage for a woman? More often than not, the curse cannot be undone. It seems that marriage is the riskiest activity of all, in the life of a woman. Let's see what kind of risks a marriage represents. To start with…

One famous shoe company, end of last century, did send different sales representatives to a developing region to investigate the market. All the messages coming from the region so far were: “Nobody in this area wears shoes. So, there is no market for our products there.” But one day, one…

Hic sunt dracones (HC SVNT DRACONES) is latin and means -Here be dragons! It was used in medieval world-maps to mark unknown, unexplored or dangerous territories. Drawings of dragons, sea monsters and other mythological creatures were put on uncharted areas of maps where potential dangers were thought to exist. And today, a time with so many digital dragons for most of us, it…

This global crisis shows us what are the real important jobs our society depends on I broke the 1st day of the official quarantine in Vienna. My mother, who is in isolation at home already 4 weeks in Milano, told me she can’t find some of her medicines. I run to different pharmacies through the city. Luckily after finding them I went to the post…