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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

If you're capable of seeing past the old stones of Paris and the picturesque rural villages, you'll realize that France is every bit as technologically advanced as any other Western country - more so in some areas. Want to start up in France? billion online in the first quarter of this year. So what are you waiting for?

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Bitcoin Developments in Denmark

The Startup Magazine

Countries like Sweden, Denmark, Austria, and France have all seen a growing number of people using and investing in bitcoin. Amsterdam, in particular, is home to a number of bitcoin-friendly businesses and organizations. In recent years, interest in bitcoin has spread to other parts of Europe as well.

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The Spending Power Of Millennials And Industries We’re Not Killing

YoungUpstarts

Finance journalist Roger Aitken has explored this and explained , “Blockchain and related IT of the Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is argued to be perfectly positioned to harness these tendencies thanks to increased Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication and better customer incentivizing methods via tokenization.”.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

Both Sides of the Table

It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK.

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

Both Sides of the Table

I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. Hold interviews with tech people, marking people, ops people, finance people – whatever. If there was any society in which being a hustler was out of step with the norm is was England. Very few people do.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%).