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Neko Health: Spotify CEO’s Medical Startup Raises €60 Million in Funding

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Recently, the medical diagnostics company Neko Health, which was co-founded by Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, was successful in acquiring €60 million ($65.4 million) in funding from venture capitalists. In contrast to Theranos, which conducted business behind closed doors, Neko Health is open and honest about how it does business.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. How did you go from VC to founder?

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

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12:30 PM: Trials and Tribulations of the Pirate Bay Hilton A/B – The Pirate Bay is Sweden’s biggest export since…Abba. 12:30 PM: Who Needs Venture Capital? Yet entrepreneurs still obsess over traditional big meeting/big money Silicon Valley venture capital. Gary Vee knows wine.

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Four myths about the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.