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
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
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
Geographic Hubs A playbook for European Tech Hubs (or: what would you do with €100 million?) I’m fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations. Guns, Germs and Steel, a Roberto Caro-esque account of how geographical and
Venture Capital Europe has Major Bragging Rights Yesterday, Atomico in partnership with Slush and Orrick launched the 2019 State of European Tech report. Everyone’s talking about the report, and they should. It’s a fairly big
Geographic Hubs Estonia is much like The Lord of the Rings It’s not uncommon in history that a single set of policies (often pushed by a few) turn around the future of an entire country, changing its downward trajectory propelling
Geographic Hubs Das Berlin Startup Szene “Berlin ist arm, aber sexy.” - Klaus Wowereit, Mayor of Berlin 2001 - 2014 “Berlin is poor, but sexy." Next month is the 30th anniversary of the fall of the
Geographic Hubs God save the queen (of money) SeedTableEarlier this week, Dealroom released a report on UK tech. The conclusion: the UK has become the world’s hottest tech hub in 2019. Here's how they make that case:
Geographic Hubs Europe, €9.3b and the path from Good to Great Earlier this week, something quite exciting happened. Dealroom released their Quarterly European Venture Capital report for Q2 2019. One thing stands out: Q2 broke the all-time record for tech investment
Geographic Hubs Berlin goes after a $150 billion pot of gold Last week, GetYourGuide announced an astronomical $484 million Series E round. A few weeks before that, Tourlane raised $47 million, and GoEuro revealed a complete rebrand (it’s now called
Geographic Hubs Too good for your own good Different cities send different messages. After living in Buenos Aires, Cincinnati, Milano, Paris and now Barcelona, I realized that each message resonates with different people. Paul Graham writes: "Great cities
Geographic Hubs Should Europe get in bed with China? If you visit ever have the fortune of visiting China, you’ll grasp something fairly quickly: it runs on an immense scale. China is home to 1.5 billion people,
Geographic Hubs Is China coming for Europe? A couple days ago, @jason tweeted about China vs. the US, and a Twitter battle ensued. Here's what a brief extract of his ideas: "Founders, we're up against Jack Ma
Geographic Hubs Is the U.K. playing Internet God? Last week, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and the Secretary of State for the Home Department released a white paper calling for
Geographic Hubs La French Tech is thriving I’m sitting at a coffee shop on the 5ème Arrondisement right now. I spent the better part of this week having coffee with startup founders, employees and investors in
Geographic Hubs France is winning (and it's not the world cup) A few days ago, The French government unveiled a complete overhaul of the French Tech Visa for employees: they are making it easier to come work for a tech company
