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Q&A with Mangrove VC partner Michael Jackson: “You don’t build code at a party”

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One of the biggest names behind Luxembourg-based Mangrove is Michael Jackson. Silicon Allee (a TNW content partner ) caught up with him to pick his brain on what 2013 might hold for us. And they’re not here. SA: Is founding a startup becoming too much of a fashionable thing to do? MJ: I see that a lot.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

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Accelerator facilities like Dog Patch Labs , launched by leading US venture capital firm Polaris Venture Partners, host music discovery platform Seevl , Guitar Hero-like software Riffstation and big data management tool Logentries , to name a few. The city also hosts the must-go tech conferences Web Summit and F.ounders.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

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Five international MBA programs also boast Unicorn founders, namely INSEAD (France / Singapore / UAE), IIM Calcutta (India), Vienna University (Austria), Tel Aviv University (Israel), and University of Otago (New Zealand) (Please note that I only included MBA programs, and excluded Masters in Science degrees). BlaBlaCar (France): INSEAD.