Yesterday evening I heard rumors that Red Herring International wants to close down the European offices at Technopark in Zurich.
Alex, please don’t do that!
Some Reasons:
#1: Farley Duvall is doing a great job there
#2: There were 7 Swiss companies among this years Red Herring 100.
#3: There is a good reason why Google is investing a lot of resources in Zurich
#4: Switzerland is a good test market for expanding Red Herring 100 companies
#5: Entrepreneurship is getting rapidly more popular in Switzerland because of initiatives like venturelab (a great partner for Red Herring)
#6: We’re going to organize a regular Red Herring roundtable for Swiss entrepreneurs in Zurich (some Swiss entrepreneurs, Farley and Elizabeth had the idea yesterday evening)
I’m sure there are another GOOD reasons to not close down this office!
Alex, please think about it!
Lieber Remo
Da hast Du total recht!
Mir fallen spontan folgende Fragen ein:
#1: Was waren die Überlegungen nach Zürich zu kommen und was hat sich seit diesem Entscheid geändert?
#2: Google, Microsoft, eBay etc. ziehen alle in die CH und Red Herring davon weg?
#3: Was kann man machen, dass Red Herring in Zürich bleibt?
Wünsche Dir einen guten Flug zurück in die CH.
Dominik
#6: We’re going to organize a regular Red Herring roundtable for Swiss entrepreneurs in Zurich (some Swiss entrepreneurs, Farley and Elizabeth had the idea yesterday evening)
-> sounds interesting…
I think that if you are Red Herring fan, posting that subject doesn’t do them any good. And gossip is always bad, even when it isn’t true.
Jennifer, I’m in contact with Farley and will post facts as soon as I get them. It’s of course not my intention to harm Red Herring :-).
Dominik, and Remo,
Here is a difference between why Google, Microsoft and eBay are coming to Switzerland, and way Red Herring would want to leave.
The others are coming, because there is academic talent is CH, but there are not necessarily entrepreneurs, rather brains, workers.
Red Herring is looking for people with Ideas, risk takers, leaders – rather a different group.
Do I think that Red Herring should stay -yes.
Do I think that CH has what it takes to produce real entrepreneurs….Ã la US…. no I don’t think so, and it not because of intellect, rather culture, which doesn’t reward risk at he cost of failure.
This is just not the Swiss Model.
Paul