A plan for the support and encouragement of private investments
Any successful strategy for handling the economic crisis will have to be centred on large scale job creation
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Startup funding: moving from good intentions to rationality
You cannot build a Silicon Valley on charity ― it’s bad for business, and it’s bad for those who really need charity.
Starttech co-hosts Business Angel Workshop, Dec 5
Workshop to to share best practices and experience from the international business angels scene and to kick-start the process of creating an active business angels network in Athens
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.
TalentLMS — FREE e-book: e-Learning 101
The fundamentals of learning platforms and online courses, as well as an overview of the available tools.
Introducing Stackmasters, the Cloud Computing experts
If your enterprise or organisation is interested in creating its own private cloud but is afraid of the hustle or doesn’t have the required domain knowledge, you are in luck. We at StartTech Ventures, are proud to introduce Stackmasters, a new player in the cloud computing services area, that was founded and is operating as […]
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 […]