Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

The young entrepreneurs I met are bringing impressive energy and intelligence to their goal of building one of Europe’s leading technology hubs in Helsinki. Startup incubators, business angels and VCs are starting to emerge. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2011

As you may recall from previous roundtable posts, that 1M/1M works closely with many incubators around the world. We simply offer our services as an extension of the incubators' existing programming. In other words, 123ContactForm offers web forms of all kinds that are used by web developers, small businesses, etc.,

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

This week, I've had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. The same applies to Malaysia, where our partner, the MAD Incubator, is in search of 10 good deals to put through the 1M/1M program. Incubator photo from Geograph. PartingOut.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. We have those too.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

The Rothschilds famously utilized their network of operations on different continents to amass one of the largest fortunes in Europe. An in-house incubator or a stand-alone family private equity fund may help capitalize on these insights for the mutual financial benefit of the family.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. I know our CTO, Dr. Paul Young, closely follows developments in lab grown meats. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

So, the Founder Institute has developed a solution to this long-standing pain in the ass that all startups experience. Through a four month pre-seed incubator program, you can launch your dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs, while not being required to quit your day job. Enterprise.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’m distinguishing these from incubators and accelerators.) engineers, designers, business developers). . – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”. (I’m Venture studios work as co-founders with a founding team, with the larger ones assigning dedicated internal teams for each startup idea (e.g.,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

The) first thing was I wanted to be a land developer because I wanted to be my own builder. What did I know about land development? He left EA in 2009 to start Vaporware Labs, a product incubator that mostly failed, but also created products including Commonred, which was acquired by Income.com in 2012.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

And yet, most regional development efforts are still floundering - at best, moving slowly, and not very surely - and we need to understand why. We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. There are pockets of entrepreneurship developing in various European capitals. One is culture. Jade Magnet.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The incubators and co-working spaces are on par with what we have. Startups are keen on business development and will seek partnerships. In 2009, business angels invested 160 times more than their counterparts in continental Europe. The market is larger, less fragmented, the consumers are earlier adopters. we don’t).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. And our software allowed us to offer: tighter pick-up windows, better utilization of “uploader staff” and to launch new products & services that I won’t discuss because they’re in development now. So, let’s start with the basics.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

We arrived from Moscow on April 25th; the following day, I spoke on Raising Money to Go Global at StartSmart , a conference held at an incubator and innovation center named Technopolis Ülemiste. These efforts were organized by Merit Imala and the Arengufond Estonian Development Fund team. Isaac’s Cathedral.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JULY 26, 2017

A recent release from the European Committee of the Regions : With its new start-up and scale-up initiative the European Commission (EC) wants to give Europe’s innovative entrepreneurs every opportunity to grow and become successful worldwide, paying attention to the need for regionally interconnected EU-wide clusters and ecosystems.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Over time, through development and expansion, the best places to start and run a business change. ” Austin features a government-sponsored small business development program, and a reputable university business incubator. Norwegian tundra is the only place in Europe where wild reindeer can be found.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

trillion GDP of Europe in total. The VC market is less developed in Spain in comparison with its European neighbors, although recent reports claim that investment levels are back to pre-crisis volume. Europe is often accused of just copying proven models from the US and localizing them in Europe. But that is now changing.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I was recently interviewed by the team of eFounders , the new Parisian SaaS start-up incubator founded by Thibaud Elzière (Fotolia) and Quentin Nickmans. Today is a very interesting time for the SaaS industry: Europe has shown it was capable of creating successful SaaS businesses, and it’s only the beginning.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Although this reseearch would lead to the development of the Backward Wave Oscillator and Traveling Wave Tube for military applications, Stanford was building tubes and circuits not entire systems. Stanford had a Customer Development loop going on inside their own lab. The labs basic research was done by graduate students or Ph.Ds

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2018

The company’s growth is largely thanks to its collaborators – Travelport, its first investor and incubator, lead investor 7 Gate Ventures, and Real Venture. Recent funding is being used to develop its product using predictive booking pattern algorithms and to expand its sales and development teams.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Dave McClure >>"what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach." startupcto

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

At today's roundtable, we discussed three major trends and opportunities for 2012 and also worked with an entrepreneur from Europe. If you are a content producer or a freemium app or game developer, you would know, instantly, what I am talking about. Social Contacts. Our audience of readers is full of entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design. Balloch earned a BS degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. They've collected and sorted thousands of possible compounds, and now have multiple drugs in development in a lab in the UK. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. M&A – Acquisitions.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

On offer for startups and scaleups is a 12 week accelerator with access to markets, mentors, and resources that will boost your development and go-to-market position. Recognition across Europe and beyond. The program is open to any global company focused on innovative solutions offering impact to any areas of energy delivery and use.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea. They often look on this as a waste of time.

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www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Development: using DjangoPeople and Elance a very international team was born. Developers are in Argentina, Ukraine and Russia. Iphone development: an italian freelance developer found on the web. tags: app budget cheap design development iphone startup startups bootstrap) [.] Total cost: $5000. Total: $8,350.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As head of technology investments at the Partnership Fund from NYC 2007-2010 I collaborated with Partnership management, the Bloomberg administration, and NYC Economic Development Corporation to launch several initiatives, including a seed fund, incubator space, and the Fintech Innovation Lab.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As head of technology investments at the Partnership Fund from NYC 2007-2010 I collaborated with Partnership management, the Bloomberg administration, and NYC Economic Development Corporation to launch several initiatives, including a seed fund, incubator space, and the Fintech Innovation Lab.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Interestingly, MBA-founded unicorns in Asia, India, and Europe appear to command proportionally higher valuations and funding than those in the U.S. Europe: Global Fashion Group (HBS, INSEAD, Wharton, Booth, IIM Calcutta), Delivery Hero (Vienna University), BlaBlaCar (INSEAD), Funding Circle (Stanford GSB).

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. That is just lipstick on a pig.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

We’re a European VC company and we study the market across Europe. You’re going to probably spend a year or two trying to build something where every single hour can be quantified against product development or getting users or doing press interviews or whatever it is; things which hopefully produce concrete results for the product.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4 Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Provides real-time access to data insights based on the collaborative knowledge of system administrators, DevOps engineers, and developers throughout the world.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

startupcto

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2020

About half of us went to graduate schools in the US and Europe (the half that wanted to continue with science), the other half went into business and quickly rose to become the elite. What made you choose the name Sputnik ATX for your incubator / accelerator? I resisted it at first, but Joe was right!

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Binational Industrial Research and Development ( BIRD ) Foundation, approved $8.1 for about $158.1

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