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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?

ReadWriteStart

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.

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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. The newly launched chapters are Zagreb (Croatia), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Rome (Italy) and Kyiv (Ukraine).

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Cracking the Code - Untitled Article

Cracking the Code

For early stage companies, the stakes are even higher, and finding a great country manager is the single most important element of a successful launch. Among them was a small company of two people in Italy called PostoInAuto (at the time, BlaBlaCar had only launched in France and Spain).

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Symbian Smartphoneshow

Jason Ball

I wanted to highlight a few key points that jumped out at me: Smartphones represent LESS than 10% of the market in every western country except Italy. Smartphones are primarily used by males, over 35 earning circa six figures (except Italy). The smartphone show as really packed- and they’re all rushing for sub 10% market?

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

The Next Web

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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Israeli startups – Apply for mini Seedcamp Tel Aviv by Feb 3rd

VC Cafe

Last month in London, I got a chance to sit with five startups from the UK, Italy, Finland and Estonia – each with a very different business. Last year, Ineze and Sparkeo , two early stage Israeli startups we’ve covered on VC Cafe in the past, won mini Seedcamp Tel Aviv and were invited to the final Seedcamp week in London.

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Episode 2: Business Planning, Content Marketing, and 3D Printing – The Bcast

Up and Running

Noah describes this as this idea of like if you’re early stage you need some money to get off the ground. Maybe a later stage business might need some money for working capital and that kind of thing. What’s the next bullet point that I need to answer? Jonathan: Yeah. I’ve got this covered completely.