Buying Swiss companies

I did an interview for Why Geneva yesterday, and was asked what my opinion was on the current situation of innovation in Switzerland. I think that:

• The world finally realizes how innovation functions, and that good ideas can happen anywhere.
• Switzerland, with a high quality of life, a creative and educated workforce, access to capital and veteran entrepreneur, this country has all that is needed to produce successful ventures under this new paradigm
• As I wrote earlier, there is a new found dynamism, that I explain by another change: being your own boss is now safer than working for a big corporation. If business slows, you can wake up at 5 instead of 7 and try to make things better. If you work for a large bank, there is maybe one of your 80’000 coworkers at the other side of the planet doing something that will kill the company, and you can not do much about it.

Funny thing is that I just got an email from Dominik Grolimund who merged his project Wuala with LaCie. I think this is only the start, large companies will integrate more international projects in their operations, not only start-ups from the silicon valley.  And we have some gems like Poken or FontSelf that will, one of these days, also make the news.

Congrats to Dominik and his team!