Companies Two Loops and One Unicorn Cazoo, a company that enables customers to buy a used car online and get it delivered for free “in as little as 72 hours” raised £25 million, turning it into
Companies Just Eat Takeaway and New Solutions to Old Problems It's been a busy pandemic for Jitse Groen. Weeks after Takeaway closed an $8 billion deal for Just Eat and became Just Eat Takeaway (JET), Jitse got to work and
Geographic Hubs Unbundling Silicon Valley In 1956, William Shockley opened Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to innovate on the then-current transistors. Shockley was a great talent magnet but a crappy manager so a core group of Shockley
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Geographic Hubs Iceland: From Vikings to the Valley Kristinn - goes by Kiddi - is the founder and editor of Northstack and has analysed the Icelandic tech and venture ecosystem for the last five years. As a real
Companies Lessons from Mercado Libre This is a free preview of a Premium Member only post. If you want to read the full article consider subscribing for €10/month or €100/year. In the late
Venture Capital The Death of the Tech Company One of the biggest causes of death in the 1700s was the lack of washable underwear. Back then clothes were made of wool. If you ever worn a woolen hand-knitted
COVID-19 Wake up from The Big Nap, it's time to Build On September 2nd, 1945, Imperial Japan’s foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu boarded the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay and signed the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese
Interview An interview with accuRx CEO Jacob Haddad Morning! Part of my "job" at Seedtable is surfacing interesting companies you might've not heard of. One of these companies is accuRx, a London-based company working on a platform that
COVID-19 The impact of COVID-19 on European fundraising Everyone has an unanswered question. The City and the Stars, the wonderful novel by Arthur C. Clarke, takes place one billion years in the future, in the city of Diaspar.
COVID-19 Surveillance printer go BRRRRRR In 2001, Argentina was in the middle of a gigantic recession because of its hard currency peg to the US dollar and extensive foreign borrowing. Back then the president was
Talent The Golden Age for Talent is Over Talent is at the intersection of everything happening in technology and society. So what the hell is going on right now?
COVID-19 How to react to COVID-19 — an operating guide for startup founders The world has become a series of experiments on government efficiency, containment strategies, and personal isolation. We can’t control how those experiments play out. But we can focus on what we can control: our companies.
COVID-19 "2020 was the year the internet actually began" “Historians of the future might write something like: 2020 was the year that the internet actually began.” – Balaji SrinivasanBefore World War II, most American women served one role: housewife. But
COVID-19 The effect of COVID-19 on European Tech In the past 24 hours, the stock market crashed to bear territory, Trump pumped a $500 billions stimulus as a response, the NBA and all major sports leagues were postponed and Tom Hanks got infected.
Companies 3 €10 billion startups One of my hobbies is identifying interesting opportunities and fast-growing companies. I even keep a list of the major industries and some interesting companies to invest in. But I’m
Markets 7 Consumer Tech trends in Europe Earlier this week, Heartcore released Consumer Technology Trends 2020, a 42-page report combining quantitative analysis of consumer tech in Europe, their predictions and an articulation of their investment thesis. Heartcore
EU Regulations (Anti)trust and freeloading billionaires Some time ago a friend sent me an email message with <<DO NOT SHARE>> in the subject. In it was a spreadsheet with the names of
EU Regulations The European strategy for data, explained This is an excerpt of the content. I'd like to know how cool it looks before I need to cut it down. Is this OK? Or this? Or maybe this length?
Markets Dark kitchens and the default path “Imagine the most profitable restaurant in your city has no tables, no chairs, and no patrons. Chances are you just pictured the future of dining.”That’s the first line
EU Regulations Barcelona, e-mopeds and overregulation On February 11, Timo Buetefisch–founder and CEO at sustainable mobility company Cooltra–tweeted the following: If you can’t read a very pissed off CEO's Spanish, let me translate
Geographic Hubs Immigration and the $33 billion problem I’ve talked many times about the importance of hiring great people and the long term implications of not doing so. It’s rather simple. Great talent attracts great talent
China China, Europe and the race to the bottom China has been on the news quite a bit during these past few weeks. The now famous coronavirus (2019-nCoV) which originated in Wuhan, China has spread to 22 more countries
Markets The Carbon Complication Last week, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood and CEO Satya Nadella announced Microsoft’s plan to be carbon negative by 2030. "By 2030 Microsoft will be
Talent Diversity (and courage) in European tech Last week, Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne resigned over criticism from within his coalition government of the handling of a postal workers’ strike. On Tuesday, Sanna Marin was sworn into
