Best in Travel: Review of the Week ending 11 June
Hi everyone. Our Friday round-up is a bit late this week. Apologies and let’s get on with it – there have been some fascinating stories circulating the web this week! You may remember reading in last week’s post about the tropical storm that devastated Guatemala, causing an extraordinary 200 foot sinkhole that swallowed an entireContinue reading
A day with the Swiss National Start-Up Team
This Friday, the 20 start-up projects composing the 2009 Swiss National Start-Up Team spent the day together at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Apparently Switzerland seems to be the only country in the world to have a national start-up team, if we are to believe this swiss blog, and it is certainlyContinue reading
Where it all began – Entrepreneurship prizes (3)
This post follows a previous one which you can read there. VentureKick January 2009, a huge milestone for HouseTrip: VentureKick, the most prestigious entrepreneurship contest in Switzerland in the domain of technologies. The competition works in 3 stages: 4 projects win the first stage (and it gives them the right to participate to the secondContinue reading
Where it all began – The birth of the idea (1)
Welcome to the HouseTrip blog! We thought it would be interesting to launch the blog with a series of posts about our short history: “where it all began” starts at the very beginning, the birth of the HouseTrip idea! I remember exactly when and why I got the idea for HouseTrip: Junjun and I wereContinue reading