Interactive Breakout Session EDT44

Opportunities and Challenges for Education Start-ups in the European Market: Understanding Your Customers' Needs

Date Thursday, Dec 7 Time 16:30 – 17:30 RoomChess

The customer development process is key for every entrepreneur. Before you sell and scale you have to understand who your customers are, what they want to buy and how you can sell it best. In this interactive session we will explore different customer development methods, exchange sales knowledge, have a deeper look at acquisition tools & sales funnel strategies tailored to the education industry.

Vincent Zimmer

Co-founder & Managing Director, Kiron University, Germany

Vincent Zimmer is a Co-Founder of Kiron Open Higher Education, a blended learning educational platform for refugees. He completed two master’s degree study programmes, “International Economics” at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and “Public Policy and Administration” at the London School of Economics. Vincent Zimmer has a lot of experience in the startup area, and has been already involved in several foundings. Furthermore he worked in a consultancy (Rambøll Management Consulting) and with students in crisis during his time at “Study without borders”. His experiences in the refugees area and a research stay in Istanbul, moved him to found Kiron together with Markus Kressler in 2015.