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The NextGen Start-up Manual | YHS 2021

The panel features the following panel speakers: Nico Barawid, Anastasia Hofmann, Chip Conley and Rafael Museri. Demian Hodari will be the moderator.The beauty is in the struggle. For every successful start-up, there is a multitude of failures. In the best-case scenario, timing, perseverance, luck and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. It is easy to forget that the job of an entrepreneur is often nasty and brutish. Start- ups struggle to scale up their business amid drying funds, survive in volatile markets, and overcome fierce competition. For these companies which have conquered their hardships, success began with an idea on a whiteboard. However, will the struggle ever stop? All seasoned entrepreneurs and business leaders know it doesn’t and won’t. The NextGen start-up manual investigates the facets of launching a successful business. Embodying the art of the start-up struggle, this panel intends to enlighten the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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In 2010, five students from the Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne founded a small committee with a great purpose: to bring together established professionals and aspiring leaders of the hospitality industry to share ideas and knowledge which would accelerate progress in the industry. Since then, YHS has established itself as the largest student-run hospitality summit in the world.