YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

During this discovery stage, entrepreneurs get to hone their business skills via training and support while typically no equity is taken from them. Based out of San Francisco with offices in Santiago (Chile) and Munich (Germany), YouNoodle showcases startup competitions and programs from around the world since 2010.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 18, 2015

I’m sure there are lots of reasons for this, but an important one is political support. The UK government has done a great job of supporting the UK startup ecosystem over the last few years, most notably through tax incentives for investors. Startup general interest'

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Too many pitches I hear (most often in Germany) are too conservative in their thinking. It's about equity. Equity is where it's at when it comes to venture. We NEED companies looking to be market leaders. Otherwise, we simply can't generate the returns necessary to make our investors happy. Don't get me wrong.

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Equity Hockey Stick Germany Dividend 60

The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In many cases we have observed, the founders have given away too much equity to their first investors — typically angels and family offices, who have little experience with fast-growing startups or the venture capital funding model. Of course, not all of the fault in these lopsided structures lies with the angel investors.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 6, 2015

The Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) just published their SEP Monitor: From Unicorns to Reality. There’s a wealth of good data there on fundraising in different categories split by geography. “Scaleups”, companies that have raised $1m-10m, are where we focus and are shown in the picture above.

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Germany France Europe IPO 60

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 22, 2017

These fears were compounded by programmes from France, Germany and other governments to get UK companies to relocate. One fear I heard expressed a lot post Brexit is that the London will lose it’s place as the dominant startup centre in Europe. It appears these campaigns have had little impact.

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Germany France Europe Government 91

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As you can see from the graph on the far right it turns out that fear of failure is roughly the same in the UK, the US, France and Germany. It’s so good to finally have data on this topic!

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Germany France Europe Government 72

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Late last month I was invited to attend ISPO in Munich, Germany. Unless you have deep pockets and major brand equity, you can’t stay competitively in business making newer versions of the same product, year after year. Connect with him on Google+ and Twitter. Many of the products at ISPO looked great and seemed functional.

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Germany Green Equity Partner 130

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Germany, the next European country on the list, was two places behind the UK with $84bn spend. Germany has a population of 81m and the UK has 64m people. Global eCommerce is forecast to grow at 23% 2013-2014 and 18% 2014-2015. Within that the UK eCommerce is forecast to grow at 17% 2013-2014.

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eCommerce Germany Forecast Europe 60

The Equity Kicker

JULY 30, 2012

What leaps out from this chart is the difference between France and Germany on the one hand and the UK on the other. I doubt the same is true in Germany and France. The sad truth is that bankruptcy laws give entrepreneurs in two of Europe’s largest economies good reason to fear failure.

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Bankruptcy Germany France Government 110

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

now fighting Germany, and the Soviet Union looming as a potential adversary U.S. code breaking would grow to 20,000 people working on breaking the codes of Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union. At the start of WWII the Army and Navy code breaking groups each had few hundred people mainly focused on breaking Japanese codes.

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Minnesota Engineer Minneapolis Silicon Valley 281

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 22, 2013

We spend more online than other nations too - projected to be 25% of retail sales by 2016, 2x the level of Germany, our nearest competitor. You may have seen the following data in the Standard earlier this week: The internet contributes 8% to the UK's GDP, higher than that of any other G20 nation.

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Technology Germany Government Internet 142

Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

During this discovery stage, entrepreneurs get to hone their business skills via training and support while typically no equity is taken from them. Based out of San Francisco with offices in Santiago (Chile) and Munich (Germany), YouNoodle showcases startup competitions and programs from around the world since 2010.

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Incubator Programming San Francisco Chile 40

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 30, 2013

In response to probes from the Office of Fair Trading in the UK and the Federal Cartel Office in Germany Amazon has dropped its price parity policy in Europe which stipulated that Amazon Marketplace vendors couldn’t offer the same goods on different websites at lower prices. That’s great to see.

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Germany Europe Distribution Global 94

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

There's this really interesting study that was done out of Germany, a university in Germany. When you see issues where their feelings of unfairness between equity holders, that's another red flag. They looked at about four decades of data and they looked at what was the real economic upside of a healthy culture.

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Startup Cofounder Technical Review Founder 59

The Equity Kicker

MAY 13, 2015

It’s easier for smaller countries to substantially re-orient themselves, as Singapore in particular has done, so the real point of comparison here are the other large developed countries: the USA, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Therefore, at least in Germany, you have people hiring employees on six month contracts or with very long "probationary" periods. Find the best people, convince them that your vision is truly worth getting on the bus for and pay them, even if it means you earn less (remember, you have equity they will help make worth more in the end). .

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 30, 2011

You won't be necessarily doing anything wrong taking money from a London VC verses a German VC when you are in Germany. A German fund in Germany and then rest of Europe, etc. There are times when taking money could be detrimental to the health of your business (as well as to your equity stake). Go ahead and ask.

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Europe Germany Due Diligence Valuation 68

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Panel 2 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Investments in Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Alternatives.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

equity debate. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. Have convertible notes really won?

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Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2011

In this case, a private equity firm engaged me to assist in the purchase of a German software supplier. The organization both within Germany and other countries was quickly streamlined, in line with customer feedback. In addition the company had started to sell its basic software to other industries as well.

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Bankruptcy Silicon Valley Private Equity Software Review 221

Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2016

In Cohn & Wolfe’s study (12,000 people participated from Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States), 69 percent of the participants claim customer relations is more important than the brand’s beliefs and environmental footprint.

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United Arab Emirates Social Media Redemption United Kingdom 60

Babbling VC

MAY 13, 2010

Finally, folks from outside of Germany are making the trek to attend this show (if ash clouds aren’t setting their travel plans askew). Money is available for start-ups in Europe and in my opinion, the consolidation of venture capital and the private equity scene is past the worst. It’s almost become like a class reunion of sorts.

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Europe Germany Greece Private Equity 67

Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

Olivier went on to lead the company’s launch in Germany given his dual German/Italian background, and currently leads the business in both countries. Most of the consideration for these deals was equity and options, so cash is not a requirement.

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Italy Technical Review Germany Poland 59

Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

France, Germany, and the UK), makes it almost impossible for a competitor to release a contending product in other European countries without traversing protected markets. . Offering in-house counsel equity is an affordable and practical workaround to secure in-house counsel on a limited budget. Thinking long-term.

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Technical Review Portfolio Startup Intellectual Property 88

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

In this case, a private equity firm engaged me to assist in the purchase of a German software supplier. The organization both within Germany and other countries was quickly streamlined, in line with customer feedback. In addition the company had started to sell its basic software to other industries as well.

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Bankruptcy Silicon Valley Private Equity Software Review 120

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Sweat Equity: Juliette and Marco put in a bit of work during weekends as project managers, designers, developers, sysadmins, etc. MyGengo.com and Tolingo.de. 24h turnaround and a great service. Total cost: $100. Hosting: pay-as-you-go cloud servers, mostly free in the beginning. Debug/usability: UserTesting and $100. Total: $8,350.

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Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To generate long-term brand equity and trust, and maintain competitive advantage, every brand campaign should be influenced by a strategy that’s built on four principles: 1. Had this strategy not been in place, a misjudged shoe could have easily defined mass brand perception. Purpose is your reason for existing. Who can argue with that?”.

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Campaign Social Media Audience Channel 109

The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

Once the team was together, they launched version 1, got some happy customers, raised a round of funding, and then soon realised that the two tech founders had embezzled more than half the round and funnelled it into their real company, which they had been secretly building in Germany the whole time. You can’t cleanly cut loose.

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Cofounder Technical Review Vesting Ratchet 20

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

Because of that, we have been judges or speakers at programs in New York geared to investors and startups from Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Eastern Europe, Germany, Holland, Israel, Italy, the Maghreb, and Portugal. And of course many of our members in NY are international by background. 4) Inclusion.

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New York Connecticut Angel Groups Florida 114

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In To date, out of 17 companies, HOF Capital has backed 7 founding teams with roots in underrepresented regions: Egypt, Latin America, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

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New York City Cofounder New York Startup 60

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 6, 2015

UK and Israel dominate with France and Germany next at approx half the size (slides 10 and 11). It’s very comprehensive and well worth flicking through the full 55 pages if you are investing or raising money over here. Here are the seven points that stick in my mind.

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VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Girls in Tech London picked the top women in 19 countries – the UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Greece and Israel – on the basis of their leadership and excellence in innovation and technology.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

“Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. Revenue-Based Finance and Flexible VC investors invest using “alternative VC” structures, as opposed to conventional preferred equity and convertible notes. “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. 5) Structure-defined funds.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. . “Check-Cap’s technology is not only innovative but it presents great promise to change the standard of patient care,” – GE Healthcare CTO Mike Harsh. This is the fund’s first investment in Israel.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. . “Check-Cap’s technology is not only innovative but it presents great promise to change the standard of patient care,” – GE Healthcare CTO Mike Harsh. This is the fund’s first investment in Israel.

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Flash Private Placement Los Angeles 60

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Mr. Berk graduated from Emory University and began his career trading equities (not tools or electronics). Adam Berk, Founder of Neigh*borrow. He created neigh*borrow after realizing that he wanted an easy way to share with those around him and that others probably did as well.

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Darfur Sudan Cofounder United Kingdom 122