Dreamit Ventures What Startups Should Do Before They Get Into The VC’s Office This is a guest post by Eze Vidra, Head of Campus London, Google’s dedicated startup space in East London housing accelerators and co-working spaces. He tweets at @ediggs and blogs at VCCafe.com. An experienced VC would have heard thousands of pitches in his day. The good ones would tell you that they have developed a “pattern recognition”. After a while, they are able to determine (at least in their own minds) what startups would succeed or fail in a matter of minutes. There’s obviously lots going on in a pitch – verbal and non-verbal communication, chemistry etc. Fundraising tips for startups 1) Put your startup on AngelList – if you’re on to something solid, you should have no problem getting noticed by the top guys. 2) Spend $19 and treat yourself to this course on raising capital for startups and what to include in your pitch slides. 4) Look at other pitching examples – recently launched PitchEnvy has over 20 recent pitch decks thatraised money! Image credit to HowardLake, Flickr
Tech City | The digital capital of europe Y Combinator German Silicon Valley Accelerator | The German Silicon Valley Accelerator is a three to six month program to support select German startups in growing their ventures into internationally recognized and successful corporations. Greenstart First-Time Startup Entrepreneurs: Stop Fucking Around Editor’s note: Paul Stamatiou is Co-founder of Picplum, a Y Combinator-backed photo printing service, where he obsesses over both design and development. He also co-founded Notifo (YC W10) and Skribit. Follow him on his blog, PaulStamatiou.com, and on Twitter: @Stammy. Reminisce with me for a bit. When I first visited California for my Yahoo! Every time I drive into San Francisco and see the skyline, it’s a strong reminder that I’m fortunate to be in a time and place where I have wanted to be for so long, with such a vibrant and strong tech community. This is all started with a tweet of mine. i’m going to teach a course for first-time startup entrepreneurs called stop fucking around and get back to work.— Paul Stamatiou (@Stammy) April 23, 2012 We are in an amazing time right now — perhaps the perfect time to build companies. Your workdays are sacred Think about the opportunity cost here. Someone wants to meet during the week? I will make one exception though. Get ready for ups and downs
East London Tech City East London Tech City (also known as Tech City or Silicon Roundabout) is a technology cluster located in Central and East London, United Kingdom.[1][2][3] It broadly occupies the part of London's East End between Old Street (the boundary of Central and East London) and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford,[1] with its locus in the Shoreditch area. It is the third-largest technology startup cluster in the world after San Francisco and New York City.[4] Development of the cluster has been encouraged by both local and national government, with the goal of creating a cluster comparable to Silicon Valley in the United States.[1][5] Cisco, Facebook, Google, Intel and McKinsey & Company are among the companies that have invested in the area.[6] City University London, Imperial College London, Loughborough University and University College London are academic partners in projects based in the cluster.[4][7] Name[edit] Old Street Roundabout History[edit] Participants[edit] Responses[edit]
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