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Our Latest Project: YOUSTART.ME

The numbers of innovative and disruptive companies that are raising incredible amounts of capital in the last five years are continually increasing. What attracts investors and significant funding firms are the high and fast earning potential of these companies. But as the checks get bigger so are the names that, for a matter of fact, are always the same and the future is not promising in this regard.

The gap between

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2015 will be the Pivot Year for Venture Capital

The 2014 has been a great year for startups and startups fundings. The year started with Facebook’s announcement of its $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, in what remains the highest price ever paid for a startup. The months that followed saw Slack receiving a $120M fundraiser led by Google Ventures and Magic Leap having a massive $542 million round in October. The list  goes on with

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Inside the World of Accelerator Programs

If you have been involved in the European startup scene lately, you must have noticed the miscellaneous supply of startup accelerators across the whole region. If asked, you would probably somewhat know of their portfolios, investment numbers and could probably even name few notorious names of their mentors.

But have you got any clue what lies behind those fancy names and titles? Think of accelerators as

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