YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2018

by Gabriel Shaoolian, founder of DesignRush. On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. Although the GDPR applies to European countries, it doesn’t just apply to Europe-based companies. Conclusion.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Europe Tallinn For decades Estonia has been at the forefront of technological and business innovation in the Baltic region.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2013

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing.

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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 ). Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Billion in VC funding.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman).

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . – Go public.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You start traveling around Europe, starting working for them overseas. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. Or did I want to move to Europe? I only went because I wanted to live and work in Europe. DEREK 8:33] So you’re working in Europe. 00:12:57] DEREK: This was in Europe?

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The Next Web

JUNE 19, 2012

Under the relatively fresh ‘TNW Profile’ banner, we regularly shine a light on great European entrepreneurs and startup founders, to learn more about their journey and their business, and what drives them personally. If we are to move closer to “the Internet of people”, work and contribution have to be way more transparent.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). But if we’re honest, Amsterdam is currently outdone by several places in Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2012

If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone mention that he/she’s got a fantastic idea for an Internet startup, I’d probably have about eight bucks. (I The time has passed when you could just outsource the coding and build the next big thing on the Internet. I guess I don’t have a lot of friends).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. I’ve followed them with a few observations about the Internet that may help frame the scope of the debate. The Internet May Liberate Us. The Internet May Kill Us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2012

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. They claim to have already raised over $560 million for 1400 startups, primarily in the US and Europe. and the founder of 500 Startups, Dave McClure. But now to answer one of the most common questions I get “How do I find angel investors?”

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Just last week, start-up supremo Naval Ravikant of AngelList wrote how the “oversupply” of founders starting companies is making it harder to hire for the average startup. Are there any ‘Founders Dating’ events coming up?”. Thursday, 8 March 2012.

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Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. That’s what you had to do then before the Internet. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Sec. Blinken practiced law in New York and Paris.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 5, 2022

Bethenny Frankel, Founder of Skinnygirl is really an inspiration for me. He first learned about the internet on a trip to the U.S. Now he is known for Internet entrepreneurship and is asked to lecture about it all over the world. Someone I've always followed and admired is Anne Boden, CEO & Founder of Starling Bank.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2011

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. Every time I challenge a business plan with little or no budget for marketing, I get the answer that they will be using “viral” marketing, which costs nothing.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. It’s part two of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. You can follow him on Twitter, where he is @ChristianReber.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

We’re a European VC company and we study the market across Europe. SA: How important is time to founders? MJ: As an individual, you are entering a period of life as a startup founder when you are going to spend two or three years working extremely hard if you are going to make it worthwhile. But time is precious.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Relevance: In 2011 (mentioned on page 18 if you view the presentation), Facebook only had 11% of the world’s internet users on on its platform – the figure was at 50% in North America. Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp’s founders, immigrated to the US from Communist Ukraine as a teenager. What in the World?!?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

There are plenty of companies poised to serve your needs in Bangalore, the Philippines, and across Eastern Europe. But today, the equilibrium is shifting for many founders. In many places, mobile data and hardwired internet were still billed based upon usage. Today, even developing countries have fast wired internet.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2013

We grab Epirot Ludvik Nekaj (pictured above), the founder And CEO Of Crowdsourcing Week , for a quick chat on where crowdsourcing is headed in the coming years for this part of the world. Rather than fading away anytime soon, what we see is that crowdsourcing has transferred to the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

By Ernst Gemassmer With the pervasiveness of the Internet, the world is smaller. The good news is that the reach of your new software application is instantly worldwide, and the bad news is that most people still prefer to work in their own native language. I have personally implemented the above recommendations repeatedly.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is the former Editor in Chief of Internet at NRC Handelsblad, as well as an acclaimed technology author and columnist. In December 2012 he met up with the founders of Momkai , a creative agency with clients such as Red Bull and Nike. Entrepreneur Europe Insider Media Analysis and Opinion'

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2023

He's the founder of JJ Analytics, a company that helps businesses adopt the data-driven way of digital marketing. And obviously the big tech companies are under pressure from Europe here, the European Union, but also on many other privacy fronts and they kind of needed to redesign how they're tracking data and how they hold onto the data.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. He invested heavily in Internet marketing, especially on Facebook. Growing Hawkers.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

From my vantage point as a business lawyer for entrepreneurs, one of the greatest frustrations for a well-intentioned company or founder comes in attempting to comply with all applicable laws and regulations without necessarily even knowing what they are. Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2010

The founder explains that the product is so “buzz-worthy” that usage will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. In summary, the objective of viral marketing is that hopefully it will “spread through the Internet like a cold in a kindergarten.”

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, building Internet businesses, or businesses that are primarily marketed through the Internet, is viable for entrepreneurs all over the world. We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe. It is no longer Silicon Valley's exclusive domain. Gilt Groupe from France and Xing from Germany are good examples.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

The internet had a massive impact on the media industry, as the reporting of news became a commodity few are willing to pay for. One of our investors and leading media companies in Europe, Axel Springer, is setting up new templates to do just that. The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In a survey conducted in Europe, 60% of respondents said intentional late payment was the major cause of hikes in DSO. A bank wire is not always a convenient mode of payment, especially for customers in China who do not use internet banking. Complexity of the payment procedure. Dispute over the invoice. Automated reminders.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked his way up the corporate ladder; in 1998 he became VP of the Digital TV platform strategy, which did not pan out, and in 1999 he found an opportunity in Microsoft Internet (MSN) international. In 2006, Moshe was promoted to corporate vice president and head of Israel Research and Development.

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