“If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.”
Monday 24th, 9:47am, 3rd floor of Station F. Crowd noise. Crisp croissants, warm bread, delicious smell of cakes, and laughter. Breaking the fast of a peaceful weekend, where everybody tried to recharge, whether by relaxing, or catching up on late work.
A moment of artisanal excellence, offered by Tranché!. Next to the bakery of the future, an entrepreneur who developed brain implants that can drive F1 by thought and another founder helping companies give their employees the best remote working sessions, all gathered for this social event.
For a brief moment, those who bring Mario Kart to life, those who save forests and those who build geospatial AI solutions stopped their busy morning to share their learnings, habits and recommendations, even long after the last bites of cake are gone.
So what really matters? In Boucher’s interpretation of breakfast in 1738, you can barely guess what is on the table, but you can clearly witness the benevolence in exchanging and learning. In this allegory, the entrepreneurs would be both mentors and learners.
Providing entrepreneurs with creative, thorough and valuable learnings requires on our end to develop the most diverse set of partners, across all sectors, and to learn everyday on how to be more inclusive, gathering the best ingredients to bake successful businesses.
Breakfast for thought this week: what ingredients are you missing?
✨ Today’s highlight ✨
🚀 CREATIVITY IN THE METAVERSE STARTUP ACCELERATOR : CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
We are glad to announce you the launch of the very first startup acceleration program dedicated to 🥁 🥁 the Creativity in the Metaverse powered by Meta in partnership with L'Oréal and with the support of Incubateur HEC Paris 🔥
For 6 months, we will support 5 startups in the acceleration phase, in various fields:
VR/AR/3D/ VFX startups or studios
Avatar creation and their portability
Token economy, creator's economy and NFT
Web3 UX / Gamification
Other topics related to Web3
🗓 Join us from January 3rd 2023
🎁 No fees required / No equity taken
✨ Join the 1st cohort here ⏩⏩ Creativity in the Metaverse - Candidate Antechamber
You came here to learn something 📚
Open-source Knowledge 🎥
Can You Really Learn To Be Creative? With Anne-Laure Sellier, Researcher at HEC Paris
A Doers to Doers a day keeps ignorance away 📺
⚡️ Doers to Doers: The audience gets to squeeze the brain juice of seasoned entrepreneurs and experts, who share their best strategies and actionnable tips.
The past two weeks, the audience has learnt how to develop a political agenda and network for their startup and how to prioritize their features.
Next one ⏩
Debts, energy, unexpected events… How to identify financial difficulties from a distance and act in a timely manner ? Come with your questions.
🔥🔥 Upcoming events
Work with the former Head of Sales at Groupon from Akimbo who coaches the sales team of Alan, OVH, UberEats… to boost your prospect/customer conversion rate.
🗓 November 17th, 18h: Nefture organizes Web3 security conference at Station F
🗓 October 29th, 14h: NomadHer will be holding the 2022 Female Globetrotter Festival at Jo&Joe Paris Nation
Our professors bring all the brains to the yard 🧠
HEC Professors present a new mathematical model on making decisions in uncertain circumstances.
Professor Guillaume Vuillemey invites us to rethink the rules of free trade
Do you think Corporate Ethical Review Boards can protect us from rogue Algorithms ? A discussion on design for innovation and transformation with Professor Sihem BenMahmoud-Jouini
A little spotlight never hurt anyone ✨
Our community recent achievements 🏆
EU Startups congratulates the fully connected revenue workspace Surfe (ex- LeadJet) for its €4m Seed Round
HEC and ICADE Partner Up to Improve Sustainable Urban Living
HEC Alumni Anaïs Barut (Damae Medical) voted best young tech executive
TechCrunch congratulates Revyze the app revolutionizing education for its €2m fundraising. Watch their video here.
Cuvée Privée, the company which proposes a new way of consuming local products raises €2.5m to develop in France and in Europe
The founders of Anomia sold their company
Popmii and its AR marketing solutions raised 1,1M€ and won the Gitex Creative Innovation Challenge prize in Dubai
HEC Alumni company Homa raises another $100 million for its Series B to develop its data-driven mobile gaming tools
HEC takes part in the world’s largest gathering for entrepreneurs : the Global Entrepreneurship Week
Les Echos reviewed yesterday OneFlash’s €3m fundraising including Xavier Niel
Go help Inclusive Brains, they are in final for the Handitech trophy and need your votes
Program focus 🔋
Pierre Angot, manager of the HECTAR program shares on Agritech, its history, Smartfarming, New alimentation, Agri20, and its perspectives!
View Hectar’s retrospective on its promising agtech and foodtech ventures : Demoday in a farm !
HECTAR’S program startup Yacon&Co’s CEO Raphaella Nolleau created an healthy alternative to sugar
HEC’s New Space program for startups is on the starting blocks ! The first onboarding took place on the 20th of October.
Vogue shares our enthusiasm for the launch of the Meta-L’Oréal programme !
Our community is nothing if you don’t join it 💪
Where is your dream job? 🎯
You dream of working in the natural wellness and holistic care environment ? You are passionate about marketing strategy? Medene is looking for his/her next Head of Digital Marketing.
You are passionate about development, financing and monitoring of local carbon offset projects? Stock C02 is looking for his/her next Agriculture Low Carbon Project Officer.
You want to connect students to their dream job ? My Job Glasses is looking for a public affairs officer and an Academic Partnership Officer
Revyze, the application to review your lessons is looking for many talented profiles.
Nelson, the long-term fleet electrification solution is looking for 2 interns right hand of CEO & CTO and 1 tech apprenticeship.
Always liked marketing and communication? Help Yacon & Co fight sugar addiction!
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