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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Groß, größer, mega – Neuer Boom der Milliarden-Fonds
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.
Cyprus is not the only European country struck by the economic crisis and high youth unemplyoment, however, when speaking to Stavriana Kofteros, there seems to be strong leadership to find a solution through entrepreneurship. Stavriana is the Special Entrepreneurship, RDI Adviser to the President and Deputy Spokesperson of the governing party, Democratic Rally (European People’s Party member). She also is the organizer of the Cyprus Startup Weekend and has been the CEO of the Diogenes Business Incubator of the University of Cyprus with over twelve years’ experience in incubation and commercialization.
Investitionen nach Finanzierungsanlass 2013.[/caption]Laut den Zahlen des Bundesverbands Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften (BVK, www.bvkap.de) ist der deutsche Beteiligungsmarkt im vergangenen Jahr in fast allen Bereich zum Teil dramatisch eingebrochen. Einzig das Venture Capital-Segment präsentierte positive Zahlen.
The past years it was difficult to find good news about Greece’s economy. Now, an organization of entrepreneurial minded exile Greeks wants to change this. Reload Greece is a movement helping Greeks and Philhellenes to launch entrepreneurial ventures which will have a significant and sustainable social and economic impact on Greece. We spoke to one of their leaders: Markos Kiosseoglou.
Big Data has generated a tremendous amount of media interest over the last few years. Much of the hype focused initially on Big Data storage and processing technologies. Ultimately however, it’s what you do with all this data that counts. While the concept of analyzing data to derive business insights is not new, the convergence of new technologies and major trends has recently ignited an Analytics revolution. Organisations are increasingly combining new sources of external data with advanced Analytics in order to extract valuable insights.
Der ProSiebenSat.1 Accelerator (www.p7s1accelerator.com) geht im April in die dritte Runde. Die Bilanz des Förderprogramms stimmt bislang: Zwei Drittel der Start-ups, die den Accelerator bereits durchlaufen haben, haben eine Anschlussfinanzierung erhalten, erklärte Leiter Dr. Jens Pippig heute auf einer Veranstaltung des Munich Networks.