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Ellison Eyewear the Multi-Billion $ Sunglass Industry

Hearpreneur

Ellison Eyewear offers designer quality sunglasses made in Greece using Italian components. Aristotle Loumis was born in Greece and grew up in Chicago, one of 8 children raised by a single parent. Aristotle still splits time between, Greece, Iowa, and Chicago, and refers to himself as “Greek born, city raised, and corn fed.”

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Guest Post Techcrunch: My thoughts on Next10

Babbling VC

Am I delusional to think that we’re not going to feel the effects of Greece in Europe or any of the other macroeconomic problems? Money is available for start-ups in Europe and in my opinion, the consolidation of venture capital and the private equity scene is past the worst. No one goes out of their way to market themselves.

Europe 67
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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

The Next Web

Andrea Francis is a growth-hacking oriented marketer who loves to work with startups. This was reported as being untrue by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) about a year ago. As European talent in the form of startups and entrepreneurs continue to flock towards the USA, the question remains: why?

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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