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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

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Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? Malaysia, India, China, Italy, Argentina, wherever), you are better off raising money locally. Well, there are multiple nuances to the answer. That sounds great.

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

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According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor the Dutch outperform the EU big five in terms of early stage entrepreneurial activity. These ‘circles of trust’ can be very small (think deep family ties in Italy), or very large (think easy formation of large industrial groups in Northern Europe).

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

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The Founder Institute , the early-stage startup accelerator that aims to ‘globalize Silicon Valley’, is doubling down on Europe big time. The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine).

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