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5 top investors in Dutch startups discuss trends, hopes and 2020 opportunities

TechCrunch

Plenty of good funding rounds, a highly skilled workforce and a strong entrepreneurial culture have given Amsterdam a booming startup ecosystem. The median seed round is $500,000 (above the global average of $494,000) and a median Series A round for a startup is $2.4 Digital health, education, B2B SaaS.

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“If I never again have to read a bunch of entitled tech bros mansplaining on twitter about their way of working is the only way, I will die a happy man.” Canadian Investor Chris Neumann on Venture Vibes, Who Helped Him Along the Way, and the Qualities of a Founder Who Could Fail But He’d Back Again

Hunter Walk

500 Startups was looking to add someone with an enterprise background to their investing team, so I made the leap into venture at the start of 2017. When we founded DataHero back in 2011, there was a trend going on where people were obsessively trying to “design” their company cultures.

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Startups Are Winning the Remote Work Game. Here’s the Data That Proves It.

OnStartups

Today the State of Remote Work 2017 report revealed that 63% of people in product and engineering roles work remotely at least once per week, which is 21% more than the average. Considering stage, sense of innovation, hiring needs and nimble state, startups have the upperhand when adapting to this cultural shift toward flexible work.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

The country’s focus on education, business, and innovation has made it the 11th largest economy and the fifth largest exporter of goods and services globally. The country strives to create a balance between industrial conglomerates and the startup ecosystem. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Salyer was inducted into the Oklahoma Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2017. Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem is disproportionately male, how can we improve the number of women-led startups in our region? Increasing the diversity in our start-up ecosystem also requires a strategic focus.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. Jooble Venture Lab has also invested in JayJay, a startup in the field of online education.

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Surging homegrown talent and VC spark Italy’s tech renaissance

TechCrunch

However, while many startups exist in cities like Turin, Bologna, Naples and Rome, Milan is generally seen as a bigger ecosystem because of its mercantile culture and a significant share of VC funds. The good news: VC funding in Italy has grown.

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