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Here are the 5 hottest startups in Austria

The Next Web

By Marta Dawydzik and Andrea Hak Ahhh Austria. But besides the snow and the food, Austria is also home to a young but vibrant startup scene. Although it’s relatively new on the startup map, Austria has already produced a number of success stories, like Runtastic which was acquired in 2015 by Adidas for $240 million.

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Bitcoin Developments in Denmark

The Startup Magazine

The Swiss city of Zug has been dubbed the “Crypto Valley” due to the large number of cryptocurrency and blockchain startups that are based there. Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and France have all seen a growing number of people using and investing in bitcoin.

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500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

500 Startups has announced the 33 newest companies joining its accelerator program this Fall. It is a rather interesting and complex set of startups in the group and could be considered the most international, diverse, and exciting group in the history of the accelerator program so far. Oh, one more thing. Fake it before you make it.”

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On the road again: This month, TNW Europe is in Istanbul, Dublin, Tel Aviv and Vienna

The Next Web

As TNW’s European Editor, part of my awesome job is to do a lot of waiting in airports and travel to a bunch of cities continent-wide to attend events and meet with lots of technology startups and investors. You can find me diving deep into the Israeli startup scene from Monday the 22nd until Friday the 26th. Does it end there?

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The Case For A Five Hour Workday

YoungUpstarts

Germany’s NPR station interviewed me that same week, and dozens of articles flooded Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, the UK, and Canada within a week. My time running a startup has made one thing clear: Don’t stretch a task out longer than necessary.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? Ideally, innovative startups should be built on ideas that face little or no competition—and this is one of Peter Thiel’s key messages to entrepreneurs who want their startups to be “born global”.

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The State Department Meets the Lean Startup – Hacking For Diplomacy

Steve Blank

Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria. The energy was also fed by the crowd of prospective students — a motley, enthusiastic and clearly wicked smart group including engineering PhDs and computer science whiz kids, U.S.

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