Start Up your Start Up Journey on the 19th of Nov at 15!

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Welcome to "Start Up your Start Up Journey" - an online event on the 19th of November!

Are you planning to start a startup business and have no idea what steps to be taken in order to make your startup business successful? In this seminar, we will talk about the key factors in giving you the strongest start in your startup journey. We will also discuss the Death Valley; what is it and how to get through it?

Total Teacher, a new startup business working with Biner Start-up Partner, will tell their story and how their idea turned into reality.

We welcome innovators, entrepreneurs, investors, educators, and others, to this event focusing on how your idea can become reality.

Program Nov 19, at 15:00 -17:00:

• Key factors in giving you the strongest start in your startup Journey
  - Klementina Österberg, GU Ventures & Helene Öhrvall, Almi Invest
• Q&A
• The Death Valley Phase: what is it and how to get through it?
  - Karl Xavier, Axilium Capital
• Q&A
• Biner Startup Partner: from Idea to reality
  - Marie Bredberg, Biner & Ellen Trelles, Total Teacher
• Q&A

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Click below to register

https://www.biner.se/kurser/start-up-journey

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Presenting our speakers

Klementina Österberg - CEO GU Ventures AB

What is your background?

• I have been working for 20 years with innovations and building new businesses, before that worked in the car industry. I have an MBA in Business and a focus on Small enterprises.

What are you working on?

• I am CEO of GU Ventures that runs a top ranked incubator and invests in innovations so I’m working with innovations and building new businesses every day.

What is your biggest challenge in the role?

• It is a complex challenge to build new businesses and innovations to begin with, to secure financing, team, customers and production, but maybe the biggest challenge is to get everything going at the same time with an accelerated pace.

What's most fun about your role?

• That I meet and work with so many different people that are highly motivated and fun to work with, like the idea providers, the board of director, the entrepreneurial teams, co-investors and other key individuals.

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Helene Öhrvall - Responsible Innovation Advisor, Almi Företagspartner

What is your background?

• I have a long experience in financing, especially start-up.

What are you working on?

• I am a Business Advisor to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas.

What is your biggest challenge in the role?

• To get the entrepreneurs/innovators to realize that they need to listen to the customer and that they need a team.

What's most fun about your role?

• To meet fantastic entrepreneurs and listen to their ideas.

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Karl Xavier - Partner and Head of Investments at Axilium Holding AB

What is your background?
I’ve been investing money for the last 25+ years of which the last 6 years have been in the start-up space. My background is business and finance and my role on the various boards I sit on is mainly business strategy related. I started Axilium Holding AB together with a partner in 2018 to concentrate 100% on start-up investments.

What are you working on?
For the part 12 months we have focused heavily on Life Science investments, which have held up well in this current environment. Going forward we will be shifting our focus back towards technology companies.

What is your biggest challenge in the role?
The holy grail in start-up investing is identifying those buds that will develop into beautiful flowers – or Unicorns. It really isn’t enough just to have a good idea, the people behind the company need to have the drive and vision to do the impossible and turn that great idea into a reality. Identifying these people with that potential long before they’ve succeeded is the biggest challenge for a startup investor.

What's most fun about your role?
This sort of role means you get to work with brilliant people across a broad range of industries. This is not only inspiring and rewarding, but also a whole lot of fun. We see our portfolio companies as part of the family, and we take great pleasure in joining them on such an exciting journey.

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Ellen Trelles - Founder at Total Teacher

Ellen's background is primary education with a focus on international education and language acquisition. She has over 10 years experience working with curriculum and teachers in international schools in Sweden and the United States.

I am currently working on testing and development of the Total Teacher tool which facilitates and brings together the work between principals and teachers. The biggest challenge in my role at Total Teacher is to balance the creative side of developing a product with being a first time business owner. I really enjoying sharing the product with prospective customers and hearing their feedback-it is so rewarding to hear them say, "Yes what you are doing with Total Teacher could help me a lot!"

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Marie Bredberg - Investment Manager Biner Startup Partner

What is your background?
I was born in Germany on an American Army Base and lived there until I was four years old. At the age of four, we moved to the United States, and I lived there for the next 20 years. 9 years ago, I moved to Sweden as a result of the war in Libya in 2011. I have never left. My great grandparents were from Sweden, so in a very familiar way, living here feels like coming home!
I have lived and worked professionally in many parts of the world since the age of 24, the United States, India, Sri Lanka, Libya and Sweden. I have my Masters in Business Administration with a focus on Economics, namely Economic and Business Development. Currently I work both as a Management Consultant and Investment Manager, as well as moderate/present on topics related to my professional area.

What are you working on?
Currently I am working on finding innovative Startups within software development and digitalization. In addition to that, I work closely with those Startups to develop their ideas and concepts while considering the market and business plan, in order to achieve value and growth.

What is your biggest challenge in the role?
The biggest challenge in this role is helping Startups hold their users tightly and their original solution lightly. Basically, hold the problem tightly, hold the customers tightly, but hold the solution loosely.

What's most fun about your role?
Seeing the pure joy in the founders that comes with seeing the first prototype of their idea/concept.