Your Motivation

What motivates you to go on this website or take the Navigator book into your own hands and initiate an innovation project in your company or start your own startup? It’s much easier to stay in your comfort zone and not go the extra mile. Quite simply: human...

Startup Navigator book launch

On 17.01.2018 the Chair for Entrepreneurship celebrated the launch of the new book “Startup Navigator” by Dietmar Grichnik, Manuel Heß, Diego Probst, Torben Antretter and Britta Pukall at the Univerity of St. Gallen. Dietmar Grichnik and Manuel Heß gave insights into...

“And there is magic in every beginning” Hermann Hesse

Beyond the widespread entrepreneurship romance and startup honeymoon, the St.Galler Startup NavigatorTM primarily provides a systematic guide to avoid slipping into the trap of failure after initial euphoria. By taking off the startup runway with the Navigator’s...

9 Steps to screw up your startup pitch!

When building your own venture, you will very likely get to the point when it’s time to pitch in front of interested people like investors, potential partners or during a startup competition. If – for any reason – you do not want to get in touch with these people,...