No gain without pain: Start-ups pitch for place at next year's conference in Cork

摘要

''THE only thing that is guaranteed as a start-up founder is pain!' said Olaf Birkner, a tech founder himself and an advisor in digital technology, opening a day-long Innovation Forum at the EAS conference. In his talk, titled 'How to get yourselfnoticed', Birkner outlined typical mistakes people make when launching new ventures, and offered practical advice.Innovation comes from education, and the amount of people able to create innovation and bring change to the world is increasing 'tremendously', because of the improvement of education on a global scale, he said.