Short talk I held at the European Pirate Summit 2013 introducing a panel I co-hosted on European Startup Ecosystems. The YouTube video in the end is a short documentary/summary of the panel.
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4. There arrrr many reports
on Startup Ecosystems
Startup Ecosystem Report (Telefonica)
A Startup World (Intuit)
Startup Genome Report
American Made 2.0 (NVCA)
8. Who‘s really starting US
Startups?
"What do Google’s Sergey Brin, eBay’s Pierre
Omidyar, and Tesla Motors’s Elon Musk all have
in common?“ (Fast Company)
"Of the U.S. venture-backed companies that
became publicly traded between 2006 and 2012,
33 percent have at least one immigrant founder.“
(NVCA)
?Immigrant entrepreneurs and high skilled
professional are key to U.S. economic growth.“
(NVCA)
9. Startup Ecosystems should
not compete
"The best tech ecosystem in Europe is…Not
Berlin vs. London, but Berlin AND London AND
Stockholm AND…“ (Ciarán - Earlybird)
Each hub has it‘s own strengths and weaknesses
Together we are one mind-blowing Startup
Factory
Investors and Startups use the best of all worlds
10. Several Trends enable
emerging Startup
EcosystemsTechnological advancement and democratization
of entrepreneurship knowledge
Capital gets increasingly mobile
Talent nowadays is mobile
International talent has a preference for
"inspiring, English-speaking urban environments
with a high quality of life"
11. 8 Pirates from 8 Islands
across Europe
8 Pirates from 8 Islands across Europe coming
on stage and telling their stories and experiences
regarding their respective islands
Tel Aviv, Barcelona, Athens, Riga, Paris, Lisbon,
London, Sofia