Swiss investors start to think mobile!

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In tech industry, it’s traditional to observe massive disruptive change. Before the rise of internet, the tech cycle time was often lasting decades. Change cycle times are happening more and more often. The last one was the web 2.0, also called the social web. You also hear web 3.0 for some years. It’s not a well-defined concept, but it is mostly referring to internet of things or semantic web.
The revolution is now happening on mobile. Mobile web or applications are transforming the life of people and represent many untapped opportunities. Until last year (in my opinion), most people thought before launching a product: web first, mobile second.
And there are plenty of poor adaptation of the web pages on mobile. But mobile is different, you have to rework completely the User Experience of your product. And for a growing number of business cases, just start with mobile! The growth is there…  
Last week at Dublin Web Summit, charming US VC investor Megan McQuinn (from Kleiner Perkins, one of the biggest and most renown firm of the startup financing industry) confirmed this in an interview.
Switzerland is waking up. Finally. After the mobicamp initiative started by Martin Coul (I’ve written about it here and here), the Swiss Private Equity and Corporate Finance Association (SECA) is also organizing a presentation on the “mobile media” 
topic. The first half of the event will display a short analysis of what is happening in mobile media and how do traditional media companies react to that (2 years after and with their own projects;-)?). The second part will be a panel discussion with startup founders like Matthias (Gbanga), Amir (DeinDeal), etc.. And people from Google and Tamedia!

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Seed Money & VC Capital: mobile media is happening on Wednesday 7th of November from

17:00 to 19:00 in Widder Hotel Zürich. Free entry for SECA members and CHF 80.- for others. I have 5 free tickets for you (first come, first served).

But anyway. it’s a fair price price and the networking opportunity seems worth it! If you happen to be developing mobile products, you have a unique (at least by now in Switzerland) opportunity to meet mobile investors.