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21/01/2026

„Was willst du einmal werden?“
Eine Frage, die ich bis heute nicht beantworten kann.

Ich bin ja noch am Werden.

Sind wir nicht alle immer am Werden? Und wer weiß das schon mit Sicherheit?

Im Podcast ✨Perspektive Abenteuer✨ spreche ich über Identität, Brüche, Wendepunkte, Länder und Kulturen – und über die berühmten „Dots“, die sich erst rückblickend verbinden.

Über Mut, kindliche Neugier und die Höhen und Tiefen des Gründens.

Und darüber, wie es sich anfühlt, durch herausfordernde Zeiten zu navigieren, ohne zu wissen, was als Nächstes kommt.

Warum ich meine Abenteurer-Biografie – mit all ihren Höhen und Tiefen – immer wieder genauso wählen würde ...

… ✈️😅 und was all das mit der Erkenntnis zu tun hat, dass internationale Flughäfen auf den ersten Blick erstaunlich ähnlich und komplett austauschbar sind,
.. erfährt ihr in der Podcast-Episode 🎧 Abenteuerlust und Neugier: Iris Einöders Weg von Guatemala nach Kärnten zur Unternehmerin.

Danke an Birgit Hochreiter für die Einladung und das offene, inspirierende Gespräch! 🫶

👉 Ich freue mich auf den Austausch in den Kommentaren:

- Wir siehst du das?

- Welche „Dots“ in deinem Leben haben sich erst im Rückblick verbunden?

- Gab es einen Wendepunkt, der sich erstaunlich viel später als wichtig herausgestellt hat?

When you start acting like one ecosystem 📣Will the South deliver?In Carinthia, we stopped being “many good initiatives n...
20/01/2026

When you start acting like one ecosystem 📣
Will the South deliver?

In Carinthia, we stopped being “many good initiatives next to each other” and started acting like one startup ecosystem. You can feel how much the whole region gains from that shift.

On 15 January, STARTUP SOUTH! took its second step at Startup Spritzer 105 in Graz – and I left with one clear thought:
if we manage to build this same level of trust and collaboration across the entire REGION SÜD, between Styria and Carinthia, then our “crazy” idea suddenly feels very real:

» 👥 connecting 1.8 million people by 2036 – a very optimistic figure, I know

» 🦄 4 mixed unicorns, part Styria, part Carinthia by 2036

Big thank you to our friends at Ideentriebwerk Graz and the City of Graz for the invitation, the warm welcome and such an energising event – you made the Graz chapter of STARTUP SOUTH! feel like the beginning of something much bigger. 💛

📣 So where do we go from here?

💡 Ideas and input welcome – please share your thoughts in the comments:

» What are the key issues that need to change for the ecosystems of both regions to fully align?

» Which key areas are currently missing?

» Which strengths do we already have, but aren’t using to their full potential?

» What do we need in order to raise 4 mixed unicorns 🦄 by 2036?

I‘m curious to hear your thoughts on this one 👇



Photo credits go to André Frirz 🙏

If you want to know what happens at UNTERNEHMA WOS. and STARTUP SOUTH! – don’t read about it. 📣 Be there next time. 📣Thi...
13/01/2026

If you want to know what happens at UNTERNEHMA WOS. and STARTUP SOUTH! – don’t read about it. 📣 Be there next time. 📣

This post is not about what happened. It’s about what it took to get here.

In 2021, when we started Startup Carinthia, it felt like pushing uphill. A handful of people, mostly "Rückkehrer", who believed this region deserved a better vision, a better playground.

Don’t get me wrong – there were great people and great initiatives here. But the ecosystem wasn’t really connected. Everyone doing their thing, rarely together.

Fast forward four years.

On 8 January 2026 we stood in a packed Makerspace in Klagenfurt. Start-ups, entrepreneurs, movers and shakers – all in one room. People from the start-up scenes in Carinthia and Styria, from politics and business.

All united by the same thing:
⭐️ this region and its future. ⭐️

I felt incredibly proud of what we pulled off with a team made up only of volunteers.

And it hit me: this wasn’t just the result of a few intense weeks of event prep. This was four years of bringing people together.

Four years of
» staying kind and persistent when doors closed in front of us
» reaching out a hand even when we sometimes got the cold shoulder
» choosing to see the potential in the region instead of just the fails

Nights like these are when all that invisible work (from everyone in the ecosystem) suddenly shows up in the room – when you can feel that something has shifted.
🌎 The South is starting to move. 🌏

💛 A heartfelt thank you to our UNTERNEHMA WOS. partners for making this edition possible with us – we’re incredibly grateful for your trust and collaboration.

💛 Thank you to our sponsors for showing up for the start-up scene and believing in this region.

💛 Thank you to the teams from Ideentriebwerk Graz and the City of Graz for jumping on board with STARTUP SOUTH! and helping us build this bridge between two ecosystems.

And a very special thank you goes out to my colleagues at Startup Carinthia for embarking on this journey with me and for pushing through – for going all in when a small event idea escalated into ;) ❤️🚀 You guys rock.

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