Who am I (to teach you)

I'm Vidar Andersen

A Norwegian by birth, I've been living in the greater Cologne / Düsseldorf area in Germany since 2005.

I'm a

  • Startup Founder, e.g.
  • Educator at e.g.
    • Stanford, Cambridge, KIT, NW Switzerland, University of Cologne, NIT, WHU, CBS, etc
  • Innovation Educator, Advisor, and Digital Developer
    • Customers include Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Philip Morris International, ABInBev, Bertelsmann, AXA, BMW Group, RTL, ottobock, Carlsen, Henkel, BARCO, USAID, Business France, etc through plusandersen.com

Further trivia

  • I have close to 30 years of experience (yes, I'm that old) with pitching for money
  • Founded my first company in the mid 90s
  • Pitched (and won) first multi-million $ contract in the mid 90s
  • Since 2007 I host weekly (free) Open Office Hours
  • Named "one of the most important people in the German startup scene" by Wirtschafts Woche, Germany's largest business publication
  • Featured and recognized, e.g.
    • New York Times, CNN, Tech Crunch, Die Welt, Wirtschafts Woche, Web Summit, Le Web, SxSw, Forbes, Business Insider, ZDF, etc
  • I've pitched on stage at SxSW, Le Web, Web Summit, Tech Cocktail, C'n'B, Campus Party, Pirate Summit, Norwegian + Scandinavian Startup Awards, etc
  • I'm the Co-Founder of Germany's largest startup pitching event
  • People I've pitched in person include e.g.
    • Lori Greiner, Gary Vee, Yossi Vardi, Don Dodge, Christoph Janz, Daisuke Minamide, Kurt Müller, John Bradford, Lars Hinrichs, Philipp Möhring, Gilad Novik, Zach Klein, Robert Scoble, Mike Butcher, etc
  • I've trained +3.000 ventures to pitch to date
  • I've helped +10.000 people with innovation and founding startups since 2007


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