Stockholm has a thriving Tech scene, listen to Niklas Rudemo of SICS, talk about how everything started with Ericsson and how a big success like Klarna became possible. Today, Stockholm hosts a diverse startup ecosystem with early stage investors and many entrepreneurship enthusiasts, which want to change the world.
Erstmals gibt es in Deutschland eine Anlaufstelle für Existenzgründer, die sowohl Unterstützung für Sozialunternehmer als auch für arbeitslose Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund anbietet. Das Social Impact Lab Frankfurt feierte am Mittwoch seine offizielle Eröffnung. Unter dem Dach der Einrichtung, in der aktuell fünf Mitarbeiter tätig sind, befinden sich zwei ganz unterschiedliche Förderprogramme.
Early in 2013 TechCrunch wrote: “Barcelona is shaping up to be an emerging new technology hub in Europe.” Thus, we wanted to know more about these developments and spoke to Francesc Hinojosa of Eureka-Startups.com and David Mora of La Salle Technology Technova Barcelona.
The Belgians are at the heart of Europe and their start-up scene is growing fast. This is why eFounders’ Matthieu Vaxelaire appreciates the young and growing scene.
Pentalabbs, starting out as an initiative to enhance internal innovations within the Pentalog Group, Grégory Rondin and his colleagues soon realized what great potential lies in the Romanian start-up scene. Thus, they decided to support entrepreneurs and start-ups outside the group. To change the perspective: What does the successful Manager for PR and reputation solutions Gheorghe Scripcariu think about Romania’s entrepreneurial potential?
Luxembourg is the center of European power and a wealthy country. Does that make the small country a paradise for start-ups? We spoke to Marc Molitor, co-founder of The Greenhouse and Managing Director of Capital4IP, and Hélène Michel, the President of Europe4StartUps.
After Polish start-up Estimote raised 3.1 Mio. USD, the international Tech-Scene started to focus its lenses on the country’s driving ecosystem. We spoke to Ian Scarffe who founded Krakow’s Binkplus.pl incubator and is at the epicenter of Poland’s rising start-up scene.
Portugal is still fighting the impacts of the European financial crises and funding for young entrepreneurs is hard to find. However Portugal is the 25th Most Innovative Country in the World, how come? We spoke to Luis Andrade dos Santos of the IPN incubator in Coimbra, Portugal.
The Netherlands has the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate and is the most active Twitter country in the world – measured by tweets per account. The perfect environment to become a high-tech hub for start-ups?
A small country, a small start-up scene? When talking to Arturs Zanderson we learnt that the opposite is true. As co-founder of StartupLatvia, an accelerator supporting local start-ups especially in the IT and high-tech branch, Arturs gained a deep insight into the Latvianecosystem.
Like other Baltic countries, Lithuania received quite a positive outlook for its ecosystem by international observers such as Jon Bradford of TechStars. For nine years there is a business plan competition called Verslauk! which is run by a man called Mindaugas Busila. We spoke to him about the current state of entrepreneurship in Lithuania.
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Italy’s start-up scene is growing rapidly and start-ups show a very international approach from day one. This led some experts even compare the country’s tech scene to that of Israel. We wanted to explore further the present momentum and spoke to three experts of the Italian ecosystem: Enrico Gasperini, Founder and Executive Chairman of Digital Magics, Luca Romé, Founding Partner of Startup Italia and Marina Calcagno Baldini manager and coordinator of StartMiUp, a coworking space and accelerator in Milan.
After returning from the USA Imre Hild has founded two start-ups in Budapest. Since then he is heavily engaged in efforts to boost Hungarian entrepreneurship: Today he is CEO of his own tech accelerator called iCatapult and carries the title of a Global Entrepreneurship Ambassador for the Hungarian Venture Capital- and Private Equity-Association evangelizing about the new creed of global start-ups.