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.
- Plone, "Gauss - The People Magnet", and more
- 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
- 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