Update on HouseTrip’s status
Dear readers, I just thought I would give you a quick update on our status. To start with, let me give you an appetizer of the HouseTrip website (this is a screenshot of our homepage in its current state): You may have noticed: the colors changed quite drastically from this blog! We think that lightContinue reading
Congrats to Swiss entrepreneurs!
Last Thursday in London took place the Techcrunch Europas award for Europe’s best start-ups. For 12 award categories, 50 start-ups were represented including 5 Swiss ones: Big congratulations to all! Our fellow Swiss entrepreneurs also won some awards since Poken was elected “Best Real Life Gadget”, Amazee made it to the second place for “BestContinue reading
HouseTrip at the 2009 Venture Summit
For the second consecutive year, the IFJ organized the Venture Summit event and this time HouseTrip was represented! The concept: to take Switzerland’s “top” one-hundred people in the entrepreneurship field and send them for 24 hours in the nature. No sleep, lots of sport, drinking and extreme networking! This year, we all went to theContinue reading
Hosts’ interview of the week: being a Munich host during the Oktoberfest!
The Oktoberfest is the world’s largest fair with over 6 million attendees every year! It is traditionally (the Wiesn – as it is called locally – dates back to the early 1800′s) held for about 2 weeks from the end of September to early October. It is of course very famous for its beer (aboutContinue reading
Hosts’ interview of the week: Venice
This week we asked three hosts from Venice if they applied special booking conditions (rates, length of stay, etc.) during high and low demand periods for accomodation in the city. Below are their answers.