Dimitris Tsingos
The Starttech Ventures Founder. Tech entrepreneur. Passionate European federalist. Dimitris has been the President of YES for Europe - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs [2011-15], the Founder of the Hellenic Start-up Association [2011], Board Member at EBAN - The European Business Angel Network [2014-17], 40-under-40 European Young Leader [2012-13], Marshall Memorial Fellow [2018] and a Fellow of IHEIE/PSL [2019].
Starting up the hard way
thoughts on the European and Silicon Valley startup scenes There’s a scene in the “Muppet Movie” (1979), where Gonzo shares his dream of going to Mumbai to become a movie star. When told by Fozzie that “You don’t go to Mumbai to become a movie star! You go where we’re going: Hollywood!“, he retorts: “Sure, […]
Thoughts of a European serial start-up entrepreneur before going to the Silicon Valley
The Greek experience, the Silicon Paranoia and the need for a European start-up growth model I launched my first start-up, along with four more co-founders (Periklis Akritidis, Nikos Ventouras, Miltos Vassilakis and Charalampos Gikas – one of them had the following email address: “JFK at VTRIP dot NET”) and Critical Publics on September 5th 2000, exactly […]