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European startups: Here’s how to (not) raise capital in the US

The Next Web

Previously, he worked in venture capital in Europe. He is a part-time hacker, angel investor, and product advisor, and was selected from more than 300 people to “shadow” Dave McClure at 500 Startups. Here’s the hard cold truth: Your chances of raising money from US investors are extremely low. Meet investors.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

The shrewd marketing tactics of an experienced business executive transformed what had been a regional sunglasses maker into an international company that is focused on disrupting the industry. With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Growing Hawkers.

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Aspen Institute Maghreb Investor Delegation, next week in NY and CA

David Teten

Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences. The technology sector is of particular interest to the delegates for several reasons: The Maghreb is being used as a near-shore IT platform for Europe, especially as Eastern Europe is expanding.

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How Betancourt Lopez Used Viral, Influencer Marketing to Grow Hawkers Brand

The Startup Magazine

The shrewd marketing tactics of an experienced business executive transformed what had been a regional sunglasses maker into an international company that is focused on disrupting the industry. With a viral approach to marketing and customer-friendly pricing, Hawkers today is sold primarily online and in 50 countries. Growing Hawkers.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. What drove the expansion of the ETF market and who are the players that are taking advantage of it? However, this is about to change.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

Pension funding was above market using aggressive actuarial assumptions. It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada. s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s.

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The case for European venture

The Equity Kicker

I was chatting with a friend last night about the lack of institutional investor (LP) interest in European venture capital as an asset class. We both believe that now is an attractive time to invest in European technology startups and started why we think so differently to most of the people we would like to invest in our funds.

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