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Why So Many Small Emerging Managers Don’t Use Placement Agents

David Teten

Although not a placement agent charged with raising the money, this person was an important and critical member of the team and was a key factor in helping us to keep track of where we had been and where we were going – ‘If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belgium.’ ”. We’ve been much more successful in pitching old rather than new relationships.

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A Beer Drinker's View of the Venture Industry

Genuine VC

A Red Hook IPA didn’t taste like a Sam Adams Lager or the Belgium-style ale at your local brewpub – all of which were very different than a Bud Light. beer market is due to other forces like distribution laws and global consolidation, neither of which have much to do with the venture industry.)

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Founder Institute doubles down on Europe, now runs 10 startup accelerator programs continent-wide

The Next Web

The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. Applications to the newly launched programs are now open, in addition to applications for long-established programs in Berlin, Paris, Belgium, and Amsterdam.

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[Event] Ukraine, Thailand And US Take Top Spots At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

. “Over the past 10 years, Imagine Cup participants have applied technology and minds to positively impact their local communities and change the world,” says Moorthy Uppaluri, general manager, Global Academic Programs, Microsoft. Third Place: Hotfix (Belgium). ” The winning teams are: 1. Xbox/Windows.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

The Entrepreneur Week European kickoff was originally slated to be held in Belgium, but Whitehill was “intrigued that something so unstable [could present] the right time, right place and right opportunity to make entrepreneurship a pillar of solving the problem.”. Partnerships. Proficiency. Seek the best team, skill sets or mentors.

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What Greek Startups Can Teach the World

ReadWriteStart

The Entrepreneur Week European kickoff was originally slated to be held in Belgium, but Whitehill was “intrigued that something so unstable [could present] the right time, right place and right opportunity to make entrepreneurship a pillar of solving the problem.” Partnerships. Proficiency. Seek the best team, skill sets or mentors.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

Then Cristina Soviany presented IDES Technologies from Belgium. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). IDES Technologies. IDES is an analytics enhancement for fraud prevention systems addressing the credit card fraud market.

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