Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2017

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The Next Web

MAY 24, 2018

For the fifth year in a row Adyen and TNW teamed up to find the fastest growing companies in Europe’s six hottest startup ecosystems: the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden. The winner, mattress business Emma (Germany), was announced tonight at TNW Conference Founders Dinner in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 2, 2015

The founder of the event, Paddy Cosgrave, smartly responded to the critics in a post I just read this morning. I met the founder on the street walking from the conference to my hotel. His company had recently moved from Germany to the US.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. I wish I had 20% of her confidence, focus and leadership skills at 25.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post). DEAL OF THE WEEK: Gilt Groupe – We both admired this company. Time will tell. Employees: 20.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Howard Lindzon weighed in with his comments : “As a CEO of a venture backed business myself and founder of many others, I would add one thing… Thick Skin. My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany. If you fail, you need to start all over.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

Startup hubs like Berlin, London, New York, Los Angeles, Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore offered access to venture capital and vibrant start ecosystems thus attracting the brightest founders. Out of a sudden, both startup founders and investors started asking themselves ‘’ What is our remote strategy?

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I was 16 and living in (West) Germany when the wall was torn down. The reunification that followed less than a year later brought tremendous optimism to Germany. News Berlin Wall Career Germany Internet' I was reminded of this as we celebrated the 25 th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9th.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. I frequently travelled to Frankfurt, Germany but found it much cheaper to stay 20 minutes south of the city in Neu Isenberg. Scrappiness became a badge of honor.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

More than 2 thousand pieces have been sold so far, with the distribution mainly in CIS, UAE and Germany. During the Vernadsky Challenge 2017 final round, Max Polyakov, Association Noosphere’s founder, admitted that this challenge wasn’t organized exclusively for the partaking teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paul Graham’s assertion that “any startup founder can tell you the most common question they hear from investors is not about the founders or the product, but “who else is investing?&# When I’m in, I’m in. rings true to me. Investors who commit early deserve to have a lower price. I chuckled.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2011

Good post by @micah about the need for startup founders to think about their health/well-being – [link]. Strong commitment by Germany to phase out nuclear power within 10 years – [link]. The Way I Work: David Karp of Tumblr – [link]. Do ad agencies struggle with social? Instant Attention in Web Design – [link].

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2020

The consideration Wirecard has agreed to pay is almost ten times the price an investment fund called EMIF 1A had paid to the founders of Hermes iTickets. Last year, N26, which just like Wirecard is based in Germany, raised $170 million at $3.5 Although the valuation of $5.5 Like Revolut and Monzo, N26 expanded to the US.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A week after my article on the five-hour workday published in on a major business magazine’s website, the Hamburger Morgenpost in Germany dubbed me “the world’s best boss.” Germany’s NPR station interviewed me that same week, and dozens of articles flooded Germany, Austria, Switzerland, India, the UK, and Canada within a week.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

The largest Germany construction firms announced that they were going to launch their own initiative and therefore not use 3rd-party vendors. Reach out to the founders, not the staff. Buzzsaw (owned by Autodesk) raised $90 million and was making weekly noise in the market. These were stressful times.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by Melvin Wong , founder of Kodorra. This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. Founded in 2011 and based out of London, F6S is one of the world’s largest founders’ online communities with over 2.7

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Consider a bridge built in Laufenburg, a town that straddles Germany and Switzerland. Germany measures height in relation to sea level in the North Sea while Switzerland does so in relation to the Mediterranean Sea. Conclusion. What you measure matters. As it turns out, how you measure sea level varies from one place to another.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

We have also been selected to be part of the official Hamburg Startups Delegation to SXSW (though our headquarters are in London, one of our investors is from Germany). We also won second place at the Startups@Reeperbahn Festival 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, which we are really proud of. Tell us about your previous pitch experiences.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia represents the largest potential market in the Middle East for our disruptive 3D construction technology, and many large-end customers in the Kingdom have been eagerly awaiting, that the technology became available via an established local company,” says Henrik Lund-Nielsen, COBOD founder and general manager.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Gilt Groupe from France and Xing from Germany are good examples. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. About Sramana Mitra.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

The latest funding round led by Active Venture Partners , a European venture capital company with a presence in Spain, Germany and Scandinavia, is expected to help the online ticket trading platform drive its international growth. It then expanded to the rest of Europe, the United States as well as the Latin America and Asia markets.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2019

Ulrich Kellerer is an inspirational business leader, international speaker and mental health activist from Munich, Germany. For over 20 years, Kellerer worked in the European fashion industry as the founder and CEO of the German clothing line, Faro Fashion.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

While this article is meant as a break from the normal seriousness of this blog, I honestly believe that we can learn much from a group of founders who sold hundreds of millions ( some say 1 billion ) units. Put in Your Time During the two years from 1960 to 1962 The Beatles played countless all-night sets at clubs in Hamburg, Germany.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Once the railways are built most countries (except for some odd reason the US) start to build better versions of their infrastructure so you get high-speed railway in Japan, Germany, China, France and now even connecting France & The UK.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2014

A search for beer, for example, turns out entries such as October’s Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado, and Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany this coming September. “Qalendra was born out of personal need,” says founder Cristian Munteanu.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. We flew these unarmed planes in and out of Germany alongside our bombers and basically built up the “radar order of battle.&# to get acquired to raise money or get their founders and investors liquid. Order Here.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2014

by Stefan Haubold, Global Managing Director and co-founder of Carmudi. In 2012, he founded ePetWorld, an e-commerce business catering to the pet food segment that grew significantly in Germany. There are certain words every entrepreneur should toss out of his or her dictionary.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

We hired people to run the UK and Germany. I did almost every VC meeting myself save for when one of my co-founders, Tim Barker, was in town. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2024

” Martin Gonzalez is the creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that decodes the factors that enable startup founders to succeed. 10:03] Would you say that a lack of leadership training is a blindspot for most founders? [12:31] Founders are never one-time founders.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2017

In the lead-up to Tech5 2017 – the annual competition organized by TNW and Adyen which celebrates Europe’s fastest-growing tech companies in The Netherlands, UK, Germany, Spain, France and Sweden– we’re launching a series of remarkable stories of businesses that experienced extreme growth. … This story continues at The Next Web.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2013

I have lived (England, France, Italy, Spain, Japan & the US) and worked (Ireland, Germany, India) around the world. It also demystifies any assumptions that our founders were “puritanical” – they were anything but. I adore accents. I listen not only for the country but the region.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Neil Rimer is a Partner and co-founder of Index Ventures. Yet, surprisingly, we continue to come across founders who have made significant mistakes in their early capital raises that we suspect go against their own instincts and jeopardize the foundations of the businesses they are building.

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Babbling VC

OCTOBER 25, 2018

After having had a similar conversation a couple weeks ago with some Scandinavian VC's and now again yesterday with an old VC friend from Germany, I thought it was time to write something about it here. It is affecting who founders are and who now is becoming the class of VC's. Not only does it include VC's but startup founders.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

This page also consolidates the short interviews that have been conducted with each of these finalists on Medium. Please return to this page frequently, as it is updated often as more of these interviews are posted.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

It may be about a small garage where two founders planning to change the world (Hewlett Packard) or a Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant from Germany who opens a dry goods wholesale store, only to team up with one of his customers and patent something that will change the world sartorially (Levi Strauss). Promote subtly.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

apprupt The apprupt founders initially launched and received funding from us for Jupidi. Nevertheless, this is one of the rarer situations where two founders found me, pestered me and eventually grew on me. Nevertheless, this is one of the rarer situations where two founders found me, pestered me and eventually grew on me.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” Canada, and Germany, speak three languages, and visit Japan and Korea often because of our business in Asia. I love to travel.

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