This is a promo guest post by Michael Weber and Pierre-Alain Masson from SeedStars. I was in touch with Michael when they were just working on the concept of SeedStars World (moment when I was interviewing startups from all over the world for my book, Customer Seduction) and now I am happy to see they already [...]
This is a promo guest post by Irina Nicoleta Scarlat from Akcees, the organizer of Start Me Up roadshow and entrepreneurship school. It is a great initiative that I am supporting, so if you have the chance to participate, do not hesitate. We are organizing a national campaign for promoting entrepreneurship: the Start Me Up [...]
If you are an entrepreneur, you are told to think big and go international. You are used to the “borderless” internet opportunities. You work in the open startup ecosystem where your ambition can brake many barriers. You aim for investment and acceleration programs from different corners of the world. And suddenly you hit the wall [...]
The Romanian startup scene seems to be booming lately. Local players get more and more active on the global scene, while international eyes increase their attention to the area. Now Romanians have the opportunity to nominate local startups for Romanian Startups Awards, hosted in Bucharest by TheNextWeb in association with Geekcelerator. “The more this kind [...]
…you should have discovered at How to Web conference last week. In case you missed it, here are all the recordings provided by the organizers and their partners. IGNITION FOR EARLY STAGE STARTUPS The main thing I liked was the fact that it was very practical for the participating startups, in terms of mentoring and access [...]
What would 2300 pioneers from Europe and beyond do in Hofburg royal palace in Vienna for two days? Pioneers Festival had nothing to do with music (as we are used to in this place), but with the future of tech, as Forbes described the event. And that is pure tech, beyond mobile apps and social [...]
Article based on interview with Viktoriya Tigipko – Organizer of IDCEE and Director of TA Venture fund Tech entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe is booming, leveraging its great tech talent pool. CEE countries that are well known as major software outsourcing destinations, are transitioning to a product development model. Some numbers to crunch… In 2011, the [...]
Dear European founders, investors and bloggers, Would be great if we can make a current analysis of the state of the European tech startup scene, country by country. This will enable better understanding of development, better comparisons, better collaborations, better overview. Let’s write this analysis together. Please give your inputs through the comments below and [...]
Living for two weeks in Berlin is already more than enough to explore the city and the startup scene here in depth. And that is because there are so many opportunities to interact with the startups over all sorts of meetups. So welcoming and friendly, the city itself has the ingredients of a good startup: [...]
Project overview Silicon Valley is at the moment the main dream land for entrepreneurs all over the world, for its great startup community and culture, for its investment potential and for its well known success stories. However, non-US entrepreneurs that want to start working there face difficulties with work visas. This is the problem BlueSeed [...]
Romania – best known among entrepreneurs as a great pool of IT talent and with a few internationally known success stories lately (Ubervu, SkinScan, Brainient, Summify, Clearly etc.) – offers now more support for local startups and for foreign startups that want to tap into this talent pool of skilled and ambitious people: 1. The recent launch of Digital [...]
Last month at Next Conference in Berlin, I have met Daniel Fogel, founder of BeeFM – one of the finalist pitching startups – and I had a very interesting discussion with him about Israeli startup scene and how an entrepreneur activating there is seeing the development of Berlin as a startup scene. He was telling [...]
Q: If US would be a person, how would this person be? A: A young entrepreneur, an innovator and influencer. Q: If Europe would be a person, how would this person be? A: An old conservative business man/ politician who speaks many languages. Trying to obtain a seed funding from private sources for my potential [...]
