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Why haven’t European investors fully accepted the ‘failure is good’ mentality yet?

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The colleges that tend to have work placement initiatives prepare students better for hands-on work, but are “less reputable” than the research-based universities. With huge unemployment rates in countries like Spain, Greece and Portugal, coupled with risk-averseness and impractical education this leads to a circle of hopelessness.

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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Mikhail is now the Associate Director of Product at Merchantry, an e-commerce merchant network, after being introduced to the co-founders by someone he met while at ClickFacts. Latin America. Middle East. Y Combinator’s first batch: where are they now? 5th August 2012 by Christopher Jackson. From small seeds grow mighty oaks.