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VIDEO: Sequoia Capital partner Alfred Lin on Zappos, Zalando and solving hard problems
“Alfred Lin has the Midas touch,” TechCrunch founder Mike Arrington wrote in 2009. “Every company he’s worked for has been acquired, and the smallest deal was $265m.” Foremost amongst those golden companies is online
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Priori – Berlin’s new “Bloomberg meets Nielsen meets ComScore” for app data
There’s a new source of app data in town – Priori, a companion company to Berlin app search platform Xyo, today launched its website and lifted the veil on a few first products. The global
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Swedish online fitting company Virtusize sews up deal with ASOS in the UK
Swedish online fitting tech company Virtusize is now live in the UK thanks to a deal with that country’s largest online-only clothing retailer, ASOS. A Virtusize-powered “Fit Visualiser” button now appears next to 2000
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Berlin reading app Dotdotdot inks seed deal
Berlin-based reading app Dotdotdot has raised seed funding from German public-private investment fund High-Tech Gründerfonds and business angel Heiko Scherer. The investment – announced yesterday – is a mid-six digit euro sum. Since HTGF usually
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Google antitrust smack-down in Europe – have your say on proposals
The European Commission wants feedback on major proposals to change how Google runs its search and advertising services in Europe. The proposals – listed on the EC’s website and reported earlier this month – follows
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Robert Scoble brings Google Glass to Europe: “I’ll never live another day without it”
Robert Scoble, tech evangelist extraordinaire, has worn Google Glass for a week – and isn’t planning on taking it off. “I’ll never live another day without wearing it,’ he says in Berlin, before taking
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O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures’ Bryce Roberts: we need a “third way” to finance startups
Caught between venture capital and a hard place? Founders trying to get companies off the ground may see only two options: bootstrap – work in a garden shed, build desks out of scrap wood – or
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Samwer brothers’ Global Founders Capital co-invests millions in Wonga rival Kreditech
Global Founders Capital – the new €150m investment fund started by Oliver Samwer, Marc Samwer and Fabian Siegel – is now a major investor in credit scoring company Kreditech, a rival to controversial UK
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Apple Store Berlin nears completion – opening in May?
Berlin’s new Apple Store is nearing completion after months of renovation and construction work on a historic building site in West Berlin. According to Apple Insider and Germany’s iFun, builders have started removing the black
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