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YouTube Co-Founder, Valencia Mayor on Investing in the Leaders of Tomorrow

The Startup Magazine

What’s quickly becoming the go-to technology conference in Europe, one of Spain’s most prominent platforms VDS has announced that its 2024 event will be held in Valencia under the theme “Embracing evolution: Invest in the leaders of tomorrow”.

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6 Due Diligence Concerns Before Outside Contracting

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team. Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe. Carlos stirred his coffee.

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6 Realities To Evaluate Your Outsourcing Alternatives

Startup Professionals Musings

Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. If you are a typical startup operation, consisting of an unpaid founder and co-founder, both working part-time, outsourcing is not likely the solution to your resource constraints.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Neko Health: Spotify CEO’s Medical Startup Raises €60 Million in Funding

ReadWriteStart

Recently, the medical diagnostics company Neko Health, which was co-founded by Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, was successful in acquiring €60 million ($65.4 As Neko Health continues to spread its operations throughout Europe, it inspires optimism for a future in which healthcare will be preventative, easily accessible, and individually tailored.

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In Q4 2022, founders face tough choices

VC Cafe

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? Israeli Tech Review Q3 2022 (Source: IVC Online and Bank Leumi ).

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