Companies Allegro: Betting on Poland Bets often have unintended consequences. In the late 1990s, a Dutchman named Arjan Bakker came to Poland after losing a bet whose stake was a trip to the country. But
Can we pick the right line? In 1951, psychologist Solomon Asch conducted an experiment to investigate how individual beliefs and opinions were affected by social pressure from a majority group. He set up groups of eight
Companies Damned if you do, damned if you don't In 2007, Estonian management consultant Kristo Käärmann moved to London to work for Deloitte. Kristo still had a mortgage back in Estonia and every month had to send money from
Markets Engineering-as-a-Moat Businesses are like castles – they can stand on their own but without something to defend them, they are open to attack.
Companies Klarna is the Ultimate Grower In August last year, Klarna raised $460 million at a $5.5 billion valuation to expand its presence in the United States. Two days ago, Reuters reported the Swedish company
Companies The Rise of Gymshark: Winning CPG Through Loops and Mimetic Theory This post was co-written by Pauline Guého from Heartcore Capital and me. It’s our attempt to understand the rise of Gymshark and how they managed to become a billion
Companies Investment Memo: Strive School Almost 100 days ago I challenged myself to do a daily thread on something going on in European tech, and for every miss I would donate $100. It was a
Companies Britannica ⟹ Encarta ⟹ Wikipedia In 1768 in Edinburgh, Scotland the first Encyclopaedia Britannica was published. The first edition had three volumes but then the encyclopedia grew in size: the second edition was 10 volumes,
The Undisputed Overlord of Classifieds Earlier this week, Norwegian Adevinta acquired eBay’s Classifieds business unit in $9.2B deal. From The Financial Times: Norway’s Adevinta is paying $9.2bn in cash and stock
Markets Sending Rubik’s cubes to Space This post was co-written by Paul Klemm from Earlybird Venture Capital and me. It’s our attempt to break down why going to space is important, why we are at
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
Companies Castor: Fixing the Paradox of Scientific Progress In June of 1836, Nathan Rothschild left London for Frankfurt to attend the wedding of his son Lionel. Nathan was probably the richest man in the world and, needless to
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.
