Category: Entrepreneurship
Starttech salutes the European Business Angels Week (18-24 November)
EBAW is the result of a major cross-European collaboration, with 34 participating countries organising 138 events, with the support, of among others, YES and the Hellenic Start-up Association.
The European entrepreneurial satisfiability problem
Tom Leighton is a very special person. He’s a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT as well as the founder of Akamai, a company that revolutionized multimedia content delivery in the late 90s and helped create the unified video-voice-image internet experience that we today enjoy. The Boolean satisfiability problem (affectionately known as SAT) is one […]
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, […]
eLearning surfs the cloud: how we got invited to VentureBeat’s CloudBeat 2013
In layman’s terms, cloud computing is the technology which allows people like you and I to access an online service or product which resides on the internet. Instead of it being housed in a hard drive you have at your house, it’s conveniently stored on “the cloud”, available seemingly anytime and using any device that has access […]
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 […]
1st Athens OpenStack User Group meeting
The Athens OpenStack User Group invite you to attend the first meeting for OpenStack in Greece.
40 Young European Leaders under the age of 40 reflect on the future of Europe
Athens is hosting the next Seminar of the “40 under 40 Young European Leaders” on June 13th – 15th.
What entrepreneurs can learn from the animal kingdom
Teamwork is absolutely the most important value
6 Clever pitching tips for startup founders
For some people pitching their own idea or company is hard to do…for some others it is fairly easy.