There is a reason why American investors have started looking at the European market with raising interest. The value that European companies, especially in London and Berlin, are creating means something to them, opportunities. In a continent where people can move from country to country, often with the same currency, Europe becomes the land of […]
Who are you? I am a designer and social entrepreneur, co-Founder and CEO of bio-bean. At the heart of my work is a desire to combine the practical with the aesthetic, the functional with the idealistic, and to meet the challenges of a modern world in an innovative way. I look to achieve this through […]
Snapchat and Tinder are the two apps we have been talking about in the past few months. The former got a billion dollar valuation in its last round and a bigger offer from Facebook. While the latter is aiming at the billion dollar club without no shame, because they know what they have is explosive. […]
In 2014, there are still two things that seem to be alive and stronger than ever, email and advertising. No matter what, these two simple concepts that changed the way we communicate and make money online haven’t found a proper innovative alternative to kill them. While email seems to be stronger than ever, even compared […]
Jessica Livingston is one of the funding partners of the seed stage venture firmYCombinator. She is also an author and published the book “Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days” in early 2007, by interviewing several founders, including Steve Wozniak, Mitch Kapor, Ray Ozzie, and Max Levchin. Jessica is probably one of those figures […]
Matt Clifford is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive of Entrepreneur First, “the UK’s leading programme for aspiring tech founders”. Can you give us the standard profile of the applicants you accept every year? Do you accept non technical people and what skills do you look for in technical applicants? We’re looking for people who can make […]
Matthew Stafford is a co-founder, with Christian Jakenfelds and Nick Wheeler, of StudentUpstarts. Student Upstarts invests up to £15,000 in exchange for up to 8% into student and graduate teams to start and run their own business. Matthew and Christian also co-foundedUpstartsConnect – a co-working space in Kings Cross, London, and Matthew is a co-founder of9others […]
When I sit in front of a desktop in a university computer cluster, with more than 200 hundred computers around me, I always come across that point where I need to print something or go to the toilet. The biggest concern while you are using your account is that people may get access to it […]
“You know,” someone said to me in 2010, “my husband and his buddies are thinking of setting up a fake project on that website, Kickstarter, get the money and just never make the product”. No way, I thought. They can’t just do that. Kickstarter would go out of business if people could do that. My […]
Who are you? I’m Laurie Stach, Founder and Executive Director of Launch (Launch Summer andLaunch Weekends). I have degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School, and worked for GE Energy, BMW Designworks, and Boston Consulting Group. I have a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship, dating back to elementary school, and wish that there had been […]
