Startup Notes

Dr. Sophie Chung is Founder & CEO of Qunomedical, a digital health platform that provides its clients access to affordable high-quality healthcare worldwide. With Qunomedical, patients can e.g. find information about procedures, doctors, hospitals, pricing, and destinations. Among others, users can obtain quotes from the hospital of their choice directly through the platform. Based in Berlin, the startup has raised around 2m€ in funding from top-notch VCs like Project A Ventures, 500 Startups and Kima Ventures since it was founded in 2015.

In this episode, we discuss with Sophie why healthcare is lacking innovation compared to other industries, the opportunities that exist for entrepreneurs, and how better legislation can foster the digital transformation of healthcare.

Jörg Rheinboldt is a legendary serial tech entrepreneur and investor that has played an integral part in setting up and financing some of Germany's most successful online companies, such as Alando.de (which was acquired by eBay only six months after launch) and N26. He also founded non-profit betterplace.org, which makes donations possible for various causes. Today, he continues to help building companies and making things happen in his role as founding CEO of APX (an accelerator by Axel Springer and Porsche).

In this episode, Jörg shares his extensive experience of over 20 years in the digital tech scene. Among others, we discuss what it takes to turn a dream into a successful company by delivering solutions that people actually want and need.

In our sixth #FromScratch masterclass, Florian Heinemann taught our audience how to acquire first users and build a marketing machine when starting a company.

Florian is Europe’s number one online marketing expert. Since 2012, he is a Founding Partner of the operational VC firm Project A Ventures. Prior, he was Managing Director of Rocket Internet. In this role, he was instrumental in building Zalando, Global Fashion Group, and eDarling. Before joining Rocket, Florian co-founded several startups and exited two of them (i.e. to Amazon). Florian has been a business angel and founding investor in close to 100 startups including Trivago, Zalando, Home24, CityDeal, Audibene, Affinitas/eDarling, ClassPass, AdScale, Mimi, Bitbond and Movinga.

In this episode, Florian elaborates together with moderator Christian Miele (eventures), on how to understand who your key customers are and tailor your product around them. He explains why it is key to start collecting business analytics data from day one and find the right approach between quantitative and qualitative marketing.

Felix van de Sand is Co-Founder of COBE, a digital agency focused on UX design. COBE provides a variety of services to its clients, ranging from design thinking to coding. Mobile and web app development agency COBE.tech also belongs to the group as well as popular Fantasy Football Manager Kickbase, which was initially only built as a design project but ended up becoming one of Germany's most popular apps among football fans.

In this episode, we discuss with Felix best practices and common mistakes in UX design. We will especially look into how to design an outstanding UX for startup success.

Ralf Wenzel knows how to build successful digital ventures inside out. As CSO of Delivery Hero, he is responsible for the strategic growth of the Berlin-based tech company that IPO'ed in 2017. He also stil serves as CEO of Foodpanda (sold to Delivery Hero in 2016), an international online food delivery marketplace, and worked in leading senior positions at Skrill and Jamba. Ralf is also active as an angel investor.

In this episode, we are exploring the key elements of B2B sales with Ralf. We will discuss the importance of building scale for international growth, the value of networking, and why you first have to invest in various ways to conduct B2B sales successfully.