Entrepreneurship @ CERN TTO Circle Workshop, 24 Oct 2019

Ash Ravikumar

Entrepreneurship Development Officer

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), 27km long, 100m deep.

The World Wide Web born at CERN, later used by everyone…

Business Incubation Centres (BICs)

9 BICs 30+ startups

Hypothesis 1 – CERN staff and fellows are interested in creating startups

Learnings for interviews with CERN alumni founders Majority worked on a “passion” project. Average of 250+ hours spent on MVP/prototype Reverse product-market fit questionnaire - When you started your journey, what resources

would you have liked? - What did you not like? - What would you do?

http://cern.ch/go/Bnc7

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