thebarefootvc

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Regulators from France and Germany have vowed to block Libra’s use in Europe due to concerns relating to financial stability, money laundering and consumer risk. While regulation is certainly here for crypto, the SEC appears to be making good on its claim that it wants to support innovation while holding companies to current laws.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s a great topic, his post is well written and given that he’s going through it right now in his startup it’s worth reading his point of view on the topic. I frequently travelled to Frankfurt, Germany but found it much cheaper to stay 20 minutes south of the city in Neu Isenberg.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

A few days ago, Christian Jung, a designer and consultant from Germany wrote an interesting post – Goodbye Basecamp, This Is The End Of A True Love. I was most intrigued by a comment posted by Jason Fried of 37signals: For reference, here’s our original post on this very topic in June of 2006 when Basecamp was 2.5

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

The cloud itself is a huge topic in the tech industry, and it helped us tremendously to gain attention and to grow into the business we are today. When I came to Berlin the trending topics were all ecommerce, communities and software-as-a-service, and it then became social, mobile and cloud.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. If you’re a UK company you’ll eventually need some local sales talent in Germany and France. I don’t like distributed development teams in early stage businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2016

There was a grave consequence to nations who were slower to industrialize because the scale advantages wiped out entire local economies in foreign lands including Germany and France and in parts of the Middle East and Asia. It’s also infinitely better in society when people don’t live at the margins and resort to crime.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Dan and I talked about a book we both loved but also feared, “ In the Garden of Beasts ” that profiled the rise of Nazi’s in Germany in their earliest rise to power. It is a riveting and prescient book that is based on actual letters from the US Ambassador to Germany and his daughter in the run up to Hitler seizing power.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

After running a culturally relevant marketing campaign, Indeed rose to number one in traffic and sales in Germany. In partnership with the Wall Street Journal, ServiceNow released a series of branded content that covers topics like low-code IT solutions, workflows, and the habits of agile companies.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Today, at the roundtable, we had a discussion around the topic, especially in the context of specific geographies that were represented at the session: Dublin, Ireland, and Kolkata, India. Gilt Groupe from France and Xing from Germany are good examples. We are also seeing significant companies come out of Europe.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A surplus of DERs already presents a massive challenge for grids from Texas to Germany, a problem colloquially known as the duck curve. That topic is perhaps more important, but something that we’ll explore another day as we consider how humanity can peacefully jump from the industrial to information age. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

These are good starting points and one day I’d like to elaborate more on the topic of running a company and as only I can do I will take these short lists and make them much longer. My first company was founded in Ireland, headquartered in England and had country operations in the UK, France & Germany. Selling the company.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Today’s topic was Midterms with Congressman Mike Gallagher. Shifting the Huawei/ZTE 5G debate in certain European countries like Germany. Catch up with the class by reading our summaries of the previous fourteen classes here. Our guest speaker Congressman Mike Gallagher , a member of the House Armed Services Committee.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I love the theory of market type but I think it is an advanced topic. So my solution has been to punt on the topic and say what I wrote above. I like this post by Fred Wilson on this topic: [link] Reply steveblank , on November 17, 2009 at 1:13 pm Said: Nivi, I think I understand the problem with #2. Don’t launch.

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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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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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Software By Rob

AUGUST 25, 2010

Put in Your Time During the two years from 1960 to 1962 The Beatles played countless all-night sets at clubs in Hamburg, Germany. Instead they played back and forth between Liverpool, England and Hamburg, Germany for two years building a fan base. So get out of the basement and talk to potential customers. Or their look.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. I saw this first hand working in Germany and France where talented young people stayed at home in stead of working due to protectionist, archaic BS, that one day will go away.

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2013

Some of the best universities for entrepreneurs in Europe are in Germany – here are my personal favorites with regard to the tech industry: Hasso Plattner Institut. It’s a quick way to learn more about trends and important topics. If you are about to start your own company, be aware of this. TU München.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

The first thing any American notices when coming to Amsterdam is that unlike Germany and France, everyone speaks English. Max Weber would probably tell you this value is inspired by misgiving and envy rather than a collective desire to be authentic – but that’s a topic for another time. Serious talent.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Next up is the topic of work and money. Under Chancellor Bismarck, Germany created the world’s first retirement pension system at the end of the 19th century. Many thoughtful entrepreneurs and VCs have already shared their thoughts on this topic, so I’ll keep ours briefer. Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2016

The featured a leading analyst from a bank who has been writing on the topic lately. There also was a segment discussing Henry Kissinger with a brilliant author and historian Niall Ferguson who has just written a new book on Kissinger’s early life in Germany and his early days in the US through 1968 titled The Idealist.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Last year, about 150 groups participated, including sites in Buenos Aires; Prague; Copenhagen; Tallinn, Estonia; Guadalajara; Warsaw; Bucharest; Kiev; Ljubljana, Slovenia;Wollongong, Australia; Uruguay; France; Germany; India; Israel; Italy; and The Netherlands. These simulcasts are important community-building opportunities.

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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. I adore accents. I listen not only for the country but the region. I became engrossed with the origins of both accents and phrases.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I do want to get to that, but I want to ask about one more topic that drives me crazy and that's attribution. There's another guy in Germany that's the fourth, which is crazy. I have people that join our fractional CMO program that have been following me for 10 years and I run an ad and they see it. I'm the fourth. That's what I meant.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Conversion optimization” and “testing” became the hottest topics on the strategic road maps of online marketing managers. In Germany there is a big e-commerce shop, it’s called Zalando. I’m from Germany. I also do a conference in Germany it’s called Conversion Summit. My name is Andre.

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Brandanew

APRIL 15, 2016

This is a guest post by Olga Rabo from Berlin, Germany and Olga shares her tips on Content Marketing for E-Commerce players. Take a few notes, we know a ton of you people are interested in this topic! Step #3: Identify between content types, forms and topics. It’s OPEN! Over to Olga!

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Babbling VC

MARCH 11, 2012

I've always defended Germany and venture capital here. While the US goes in one direction, Germany seems to be going in another. Former entrepreneurs in Germany all started incubators instead of funds. So, back to the original topic: If you look to the US, who's doing the most innovative stuff in the financing space?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

So I’m going to try and do a single sitting riff of how I’ve viewed the topic as I’ve watched the cheerleaders & naysayers from the sidelines. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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Brandanew

JULY 25, 2015

One of my favorite logos comes from TUI, a travel company in Germany. Get all your branding, SEO, content creation, tools and other topics covered! Usually as you start collaborating with customers and clients, branding elements will be needed on an everyday basis. A logo says a lot about your brand. Do let me know!

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Such a system would let site owners create “groups” of content blocks based on scenarios (snippets for SERPs and site maps, single- vs. multi-page articles, without asides or links for focused learning, paid subscriber vs. ads, photos on the same topic but shot months apart, etc). Made in Germany. Smashing Job Board. Publishing Policy.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2014

You might never have heard of the sport but it exists and, in the UK and Germany, is becoming increasingly popular. Have a look at some of our money saving tips for further information on this topic. Primarily reading outside of business, helps him come up with new ideas and draw new correlations between topics.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

” Tommy Hilfiger ran a branding campaign involving a partnership with learning platform, Future Learn to provide free digital learning courses covering topics including LGBTQ+ allyship and community building. Who can argue with that?”. We just ask that you make the best use of the time given your own thoughts and experiences.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

It is rising in countries in Northern Europe [like Sweden], where economic growth has been robust; in Germany, where manufacturing jobs have stayed strong; and in France, where the state provides many protections for the working class. “Trump is not unusual. Right-wing populism is on the rise across many Western countries.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 18, 2010

Unfortunately I had just arrived in LA after 16 hours of travel from Germany so I was not at my best. We discussed some interesting topics, including Apple and Facebook and did a discussion about the "deals of the week", a feature of the show. If you're interested in hearing what we talked about, take a look here.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

.” I asked him what he thought about the movie and he said, “Well, that would never happen in Germany. In Germany, you’d never have some guy with a crazy idea, who’d plow under his field so he can build something like a ball park.” ” He said, “You just would not. Americans are dreamers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). You can listen to Om, Paul & I debate the topic in the video. Real-time search engine.

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