Vidar Andersen

The Rheinland Pitch is Germany's largest Startup Pitch event that Lorenz and Mathias Gräf of STARTPLATZ GmbH and I co-founded back in 2013. For more information and how to apply, see http://rheinlandpitch.de

Innovation & Growth Through Entrepreneurship + Science.

I teach and lecture on entrepreneurship at select European universities e.g. Cologne University, BiTS Iserlohn, Knowmads Business University Amsterdam, RFH University of Applied Sciences Cologne, Karlshochschule International University and NIT. An official LLP Educator trained and certified by Steve Blank at Stanford, I offer higher education institutions the best experiential entrepreneurial curriculum available, taught at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia University with a 1, 5 or 12 week syllabus.

I'm a speaker on Entrepreneurship, Startups, Bootstrapping, Lean Startup and Customer Development and a moderator frequently invited to events special interest fora, corporations, and enterprises to share my mistakes, my lessons learned and moderate the speakers at e.g. TEDx events and international Startup Weekends.

Plone is a popular Content Management System in use by enterprises and organisations like Yale University, NASA JPL, The CIA, The FBI, Nokia, Amnesty International, Discover Magazine, the Government of Brazil, the Nordic Council, the universities of MIT, Harvard & Penn State, the Free Software Foundation and thousands of others.

Startup Weekend Facilitators are an extension of the core team who are on the ground at all of the events around the globe. The Startup Weekend organization heavily rely on facilitators to be stewards of the Startup Weekend mission and ensure every community has a world class experience with the grassroots movement.

NEXT is a product of non-profit UP Global which helps startup founders become better prepared to build successful startups. It is a five-week “pre-accelerator” program rooted in Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology, driven by mentors and unique video content. The NEXT program helps founders gain a crucial base of entrepreneurial skills and knowledge.

Save the date: Jan 25th 2013 No Talk, All Action. Launch a Startup in 54 Hours. Startup Weekend is a global network of passionate leaders and entrepreneurs on a mission to inspire, educate, and empower individuals, teams and communities. Come share ideas, form teams, and launch startups.

A regular meetup for readers of the awesome Hacker News ( http://news.ycombinator.com), as well as for people just interested in hacking, software, tech startups and entrepreneurship. Come along to meet your online friends and frenemies in person, catch up with the usual suspects and meet new people. It's informal and a sweet opportunity to pitch your projects, get some feedback and possibly find that missing co-founder. 165+ members strong and growing.

A People Magnet for your pocket; A mobile app that lets you discover and connect with new relevant people around you. More technically speaking it's a real-time proximity based discovery and introduction engine.

The first company I founded. It made software suck less for large corporations.

An informal regular event in Cologne, DE where social media experts and newbies alike come together to eat, meet, share, and learn.

Customers included Deutsche Telekom, Deutsche Post DHL and Henkel.

Head of the Digital Media Department and Member of the Board. Lead agency, lead consultant to T-Mobile International retail digital media, both POS and back-end support systems. Customers included Deutsche Telekom (DTAG), T-Mobile, DFL, Nestle Purina, German Red Cross and koelnmesse DMEXCO.

Customer facing sales rep. A highly enjoyable, albeit short stint at doing something completely different - and being good at it. I am very grateful for the sales training and coaching I received.

Taught by Steve Blank and Jerry Engel at Stanford.

Awarded scholarship to Global Entrepreneurship Accelerator Program (GEAP).

Dropped out.