Jörg Rupp #UnternehmerMitHerz

Jörg Rupp #UnternehmerMitHerz

Jörg spoke to us about:

  • Funding opportunities for innovative companies and where his consulting business offers support and service
  • His decision to start a business, why it gives him satisfaction to change things and how work remains attractive for years to come
  • The knowledge of one’s own competences and limits as well as the value of the right team
  • The advantages and disadvantages of different entrepreneurial styles: sustainable & stable vs. fast & aggressive or what German engineers can learn from the American mindset
  • Professional commute between Saarbrücken and Berlin; first impressions of BER
  • His international experience and different corporate cultures – La Pura Vida in Costa Rica and Swiss diplomacy
  • The advantages of Saarbrücken as a business location and centre of life
  • His leisure activities, how he finds the balance between fatherhood and entrepreneurship and the values he wants to pass on to his children