Businesses are like castles – they can stand on their own but without something to defend them, they are open to attack.

This post was co-written by Paul Klemm [https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulklemm/] from Earlybird Venture Capital [http://earlybird.com/] and me. It’s our attempt to break down why going to space is important, why we are at a turning point and why Europe is perfectly positioned to win

Earlier this week, Heartcore [https://www.heartcore.com/] released Consumer Technology Trends 2020 [https://mcusercontent.com/1adf08b015bd836d9785478cf/files/ba9da2eb-631c-497d-956f-1f0e77a83124/Consumer_Technology_Trends_2020_digital_72dpi.pdf] , a 42-page report combining quantitative analysis of consumer tech in Europe, their predictions and an articulation of their investment thesis. Heartcore is an early

> “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 of Do you know where your food comes from? [https://editions.seedtable.com/food-delivery], one of my favorite blog posts–

Last week, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood and CEO Satya Nadella announced Microsoft’s [https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/01/16/microsoft-will-be-carbon-negative-by-2030/] plan to be carbon negative by 2030. > "By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment

> “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” - A Moveable Feast, 1964 That quote comes from A Moveable Feast, one of Ernest Hemingway’

Earlier this week, e-bike DTC brand Cowboy announced [https://herokuapp.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=32b602d9ab9d238ceb45e3f05&id=b5031cbc74&e=7cb75473a5] Jeremy Le Van is joining the team as VP of Product. Jeremy co-founded (and later sold) calendar app Sunrise to Microsoft, so he is kind of a big deal.

Earlier this week, the boards of Just Eat and Takeaway.com reached an agreement [https://herokuapp.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=32b602d9ab9d238ceb45e3f05&id=1ebd881f6d&e=7cb75473a5] to combine their two European food delivery businesses. Per Techcrunch: > "While, following completion, Just Eat Shareholders will own approximately 52.15% and Takeaway.

In the Summer of 2013, a media company named BigBalls launched a Youtube channel titled COPA90, with the hopes of providing football-related content. Thanks to their conversations about recent games, transfer news, documentaries about the football culture and interviews, it became one of the largest football channels in the world

The world is full of counterintuitive ideas – ideas that seem to be good but once you dig deeper, aren't. A great example is 0% unemployment. No one wants people without jobs, so that's a good thing, right? Not really. 0% unemployment drives inflation and stalls economic growth so having a

How come we all like to buy stuff online so much? And when we do, we want it fast and we don’t want to pay a lot for it. What’s worst, our standards are getting higher. Every day that passes, we want online shopping to be faster, cheaper,

Earlier this week, Flash, the scooter startup from Delivery Hero founder, re-branded [https://herokuapp.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=32b602d9ab9d238ceb45e3f05&id=46c844fe74&e=7cb75473a5] as ‘Circ’ and announced 1M rides. 24 hours later, Tier, the Berlin-based e-scooter rental startup, unveiled new hardware [https://herokuapp.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?

Two weeks ago, Fnatic announced [https://herokuapp.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=32b602d9ab9d238ceb45e3f05&id=75c627e6e9&e=7cb75473a5] a 19M Series B. A couple of days later, Immortals announced [https://herokuapp.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=32b602d9ab9d238ceb45e3f05&id=5fbaad33e5&e=7cb75473a5] an acquisition and a 30 million Series C.

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. Last week, Berlin-based Keatz announced a $13.5 million raise [https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/22/food-will-travel/], on top of the nearly $8 million it

Everyone knows the Dollar Shave Club story. A guy launches a business selling razor blades online for $1, their video goes viral [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI], they profit and sell to Unilever for $1b. > “Are our blades any good? Nope. They’re f**king great” People don't