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DR. FLORIAN KANDLER

I’m passionate about helping founders and innovators succeed. After having
started three product companies before 2015 myself, my businesses after 2015 in
the areas of teaching, publishing and events are all about supporting and
promoting the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Let’s keep up that Startup Spirit!

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CURRENT BUSINESSES

Since 2015, I’ve launched several initiatives, products and offerings. The
common denominator of them all is my passion to support and promote founders and
innovators. The focus is on various industries in Europe.




PUBLISHING


 * Annual reports promoting founders and innovators of certain industries,
   mainly in Germany but also Austria and Switzerland
    
 * Publishing "Startup Report" since 2015, the most detailed annual funding
   report for the Austrian startup ecosystem
    
 * Hosting and publishing podcasts since 2015, inviting guests to share their
   helpful knowledge and inspiration with the next generation of founders and
   innovators
    
 * Author of the book "Business Angels Devils" on early stage fundraising


TEACHING


 * Sharing my personal experience as the head of business in charge of sales,
   business development, marketing and fundraising in three companies I founded
   or co-founded before 2015
    
 * Teaching fundraising and pitching at numerous startup incubators and
   accelerators in Germany, Austria and Italy
    
 * The official pitch coach of the startup TV show "2 Minuten 2 Millionen" (same
   as Höhle der Löwen, Lions Den, Shark Tank)
    
 * Consulting and coaching founders in individual sessions


EVENTS


 * I curate the most helpful knowledge by inviting leading experts and
   successful entrepreneurs to share their know-how at my exclusive online
   conferences
    
 * Annual industry conferences with a strong focus on founders and innovators in
   those sectors
    
 * All my events since 2017 are pure online summits to enable the best speakers
   to join, make it easy to participate, and to do all this while saving tons of
   CO2 by eliminating the need to travel
    


PAST BUSINESSES & LIFE

A little glimpse into my fortunate journey from childhood with a passion for
entrepreneurship to becoming a founder, and the experiences that inspired me to
do the things I do today.

As a high school student, I already had a passion for business. I created all
kinds „side hustles“ to jazz up my rather small pocket money. Among them: a
market place for console games, a (granted: very seasonal) fire cracker
business, as well as a high school newspaper, and the occasional „service
business“ of ball-boying on tennis courts while on family vacation.

In college I founded the first student entrepreneurs club in Austria. For my
master’s thesis I researched employee incentive programs in startups in Denmark.
Towards the end of my studies of business informatics it was crystal clear to
me: I want to be an entrepreneur.

To become professional in one of the most important competencies of any
entrepreneur – sales – I moved to Munich (a city I had always loved) and joined
the sales team of an IT outsourcing company.

After four very educational and successful years, I moved to Vienna where I
would go on to found or co-found three companies in the following years. Two of
those companies raised venture funding of over 3 million Euros from investors in
the US, Austria and Germany. Among them, the investment fund of European
e-commerce billionaire Oliver Samwer and his brothers.

Some of my most valuable and formative time as an entrepreneur was my time
living in Silicon Valley for half a year. I learned things that substantially
influence my level of success ever since. I learned by observing and talking to
successful entrepreneurs. But most importantly, I learned by being fortunate to
win a handful of highly successful business people as personal mentors.

Those mentors showed me what it means to „pay it forward“ – to help younger
entrepreneurs by sharing knowledge. I experienced it myself, how essentially
important their knowledge and support was for my own entrepreneurial success.
This inspired me to start my initiatives (see here) that focus on helping young
founder and innovators succeed.

Never stop. And always: keep up that startup spirit!




INDIVIDUELLES 1:1-COACHING

Ich erarbeite und optimiere mit dir deinen ganz persönlichen perfekten Pitch. In
nur 1 bis 2 Stunden kann ein Pitch maßgeblich optimiert werden, oder die
Struktur und Storyline deines neuen Pitches aufgebaut werden. Individuelles
1:1-Coaching ist die schnellste Art, dich und deinen Pitch bereit für den
nächsten großen Termin oder Auftritt zu machen.

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DER PITCH DOKTOR, FLORIAN KANDLER

Hallo, Florian Kandler hier. Meine Passion ist es, GründerInnen und
UnternehmerInnen zu helfen, ihre Ideen und Produkte so zu präsentieren, dass sie
die Aufmerksamkeit und den Erfolg bekommen, den sie verdienen.

In den Firmen, die ich in den letzten 15 Jahren gegründet oder mitgegründet
habe, war ich immer für Vertrieb, Marketing, Business Development und
Investorensuche zuständig. Zwei meiner Startups haben auch mehrere Millionen
Euro Risikokapital von Business Angels und Venture Capital Investoren aus
Deutschland, Österreich und den USA erhalten.

Ich habe selbst erlebt und gelernt, was für einen großen Unterschied es macht,
wenn ich kleine, smarte Verbesserungen in der Art und Weise umsetzte, wie ich
meine Idee oder mein Produkt pitche. Statt permanent den Investoren oder Käufern
nachzulaufen, drehte sich der Spieß plötzlich um – die Kunden und Investoren
begannen, mich „zu jagen“.

Ich freue mich, wenn ich auch dir mit meinen Erfahrungen und meinem Wissen auf
deinem Weg zum Erfolg helfen kann.

Beste Grüße,

Florian Kandler
– Keep up that startup spirit!

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