Bernhard Hauser

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Bernhard Hauser

Bernhard Hauser

📍 Vienna, Austria https://www.hauser.io

Creating a landing page without coding and a new branding for the project #2

In the first article I kicked off the 'Coffee Circle' side project and gave you a bit more context about the idea and what happened so far. The idea for a service that would match like-minded entrepreneurs to form a circle emerged already years ago. A couple of months back

The kick-off for my side project #1

Not a long time ago I moved (again) to Berlin after working on oratio and ChatbotConf for the past three years. It took me some time to get settled as it was definitely a challenge to find a decent apartment. But thanks to my friends and their support, I was

Ending oratio

Today, I'm turning 30 and I would like to share with you my journey of ending oratio over the last couple of months. As some of you already know, my co-founder David and I phased out our work at oratio over the past few months since we had to let

After two years in, this is what I learned from organizing ChatbotConf, an international tech conference

Just recently in October 2017, we hosted the second edition of ChatbotConf in Vienna. We, that is oratio, a platform for business-to-consumer communication on top of messengers. Organizing tech conferences was therefore never the core of our business, but in June 2016 we figured that bringing together people at an

East Africa through Western eyes: startups & entrepreneurship

Every country has its own entrepreneurial spirit. While many trends and best practices such as the Lean Startup model are considered as common knowledge, their execution varies between countries, cultures and environments. The Kenyan entrepreneurial culture is surprisingly different on one side and surprisingly common on the other side, compared

East Africa through Western eyes: society & technology

About a week ago I embarked on a personal mission to better understand the East African tech and startup scene respectively. My goal was to talk to as many local stakeholders as possible and all in all I got 11 meetings with local startups, developers, expats, investors, initiatives (Internet.org)

Discovering digital Africa

Over the last years working on oratio and several other projects I started to become increasingly interested in digitally emerging markets such as South America, Eastern Europe, South East Asia and Africa. The latter has caught my interest in particular. I realized that most of the entrepreneurs I know in

🎥 Adam Curtis – HyperNormalisation

Yesterday I discovered a documentary that is worth watching if you have a couple of hours available. In its full length of about 2h 40m, Adam Curties explains how in the mid 70s politicans and capitalists – willingly and unwillingly – started to create a different version of today's society and how

The definitive list auf VCs in Austria

Pretty much every time I talk to other founders in Austria, the question about Austria's investors pops up pretty quickly and I repeatedly hear things like It's extra harder to raise money in Vienna compared to Berlin or London Agreed I sent my deck to Hansi but he didn't get