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Bitcoin Developments in Denmark

The Startup Magazine

In fact, some of the earliest and most active users of bitcoin are in Europe. Europe has been a hotbed of bitcoin activity since the early days of cryptocurrency. One of the first real-world uses of bitcoin was for buying and selling illegal drugs on Silk Road, an online black market that was popular in Europe.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Europe Tallinn For decades Estonia has been at the forefront of technological and business innovation in the Baltic region. Government incentives for startups have seen incentivized programs such as the so-called Technopreneurship Investment Fund allocate around $2 million to new startups if they are successful candidates.

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The Best Places to Start a Business in 2015

Up and Running

” Austin features a government-sponsored small business development program, and a reputable university business incubator. Droves of bike commuters in Copenhagen, the capital city of Denmark. Denmark is in the World Bank Group’s top ten for ease of doing business. The unemployment rate, just 3.5

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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

The platform also provides a judging and voting system to governments, nonprofit organizations, colleges and enterprise customers who are planning innovation challenges and contests. I happened to be one of the judges for the Colossus Inno 2017 competition that awarded $100,000 grand prize to BluSense Diagnostics from Denmark.

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Q&A with Mangrove VC partner Michael Jackson: “You don’t build code at a party”

The Next Web

The famously-monikered investor, who now lives in Denmark, was previously the COO at Skype, and has a wealth of experience in founding and building companies. We’re a European VC company and we study the market across Europe. One of the biggest names behind Luxembourg-based Mangrove is Michael Jackson. And they’re not here.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

Office of Assistance to Europe, Central Asia, & the Americas. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. They are the glue that holds the agency together and they are key to getting anything implemented in government.

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Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups

David Teten

As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. In addition, HOF has backed 10 companies with roots in Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, India, Germany, Denmark and Russia. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S.