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Cracking The Code: In search of Europe's next tech stars.

Cracking the Code

In search of Europes next tech stars. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. Europe Consumer. (1). ► 2012. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. Yahoo Finance. Wednesday, August 03, 2011. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:03 AM. anecdotes. (13).

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. In a survey conducted in Europe, 60% of respondents said intentional late payment was the major cause of hikes in DSO. If an overseas customer is not able to settle an account due to liquidity problems, sourcing local finance to bridge the gap is an option.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Monday, January 16, 2012. Some countries in Europe may have lost their AAA ratings, but they have not lost their appetite to innovate and create new online services. As Techcrunch announced earlier today, Accel led a $10m round in the company to help them develop their service across all Europe. Europe Consumer. (1).

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. In this model, often called micro-financing or peer-to-peer lending (P2P), people contribute with the intent to create a pool for all to borrow against. In the U.S.,

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We crowdfunded $1.7 million for a new online news publication. This is our story so far.

The Next Web

His superiors weren’t all happy with this atypical approach to news and asked him to leave in September 2012. In December 2012 he met up with the founders of Momkai , a creative agency with clients such as Red Bull and Nike. In the future, we will white-label this CMS to further finance our journalistic adventure.

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Amsterdam’s Rockstart Accelerator Sees Good First Year, Announces 2nd Edition

YoungUpstarts

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley.

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Startup Equity Crowdfunding Grows in Europe (NESTA Report)

VC Cafe

Below is a table of the equity Crowdfunding platforms operating in Europe: Location. Launching in July 2012. Launching in July 2012. in September 2012. Entrepreneurs are unable to access debt financing (bank loans) in the early stages of the startup, due to the risky nature of their business and typically lack of revenue.

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