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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

Both Sides of the Table

These engagements went well and he came highly referred by my friend Gary Swart who runs oDesk. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. Sounds obvious.

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

Polo: One of the drivers of our work as the high commissioner is working with data and the data that we are using is that is the knowledge that the average startup lasts between three to five years — before it goes under or before it is acquired by another company. But also we have a more specific number in Spain.