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Jobs of the week – work for Centralway, Trademob, Delivery Hero, asgoodas.nu
Maybe the video of Nikola Tesla pitching to Silicon Valley VCs made you nervous because, after all, if a renowned scientist couldn’t get through to attention-deficient startup types – it’s not looking too good
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Startup of the Week – Carjump, your one-stop carsharing app
Car2Go, Drive-Now, Multicity, Flinkster… With 10 different carsharing providers in Berlin, having to open multiple apps to find out which car is closest when you’re late for a dinner date can be a frustrating,
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“It’s like Spotify but for cheesemongers” – Top 10 startup spoofs you need to see now
Listening to startup people speak can either be exciting and inspirational… or it can make you do a little gag. It’s hard not to poke fun at self-righteous entrepreneurial types that pepper their language
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JustFab acquires The Fab Shoes to take on the European market
After acquiring FabKids earlier this year, JustFab announced today the acquisition of another “Fab” brand – The Fab shoes – for an undisclosed amount. The Fab Shoes is a European-based eCommerce shoe club with over 500,000 members
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Loyal3 raises $18m to make buying stock as easy as a Facebook ‘like’
It is one thing to ‘like’ a brand’s Facebook page, but quite another to throw down actual dollars. Loyal3 has raised $18 million so consumers can put their money where their mouth is. Loyal3 makes buying
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Top tips for startup HR from SoundCloud’s Caoimhe Keogan
It’d take a lot to leave a job at Google to work for a much smaller-scale internet company, but SoundCloud‘s new HR expert Caoimhe Keogan has no regrets about her decision. She was drawn away from
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Boost your startup in Silicon Valley – German Silicon Valley Accelerator doubles its startup spots
Germany’s Minister of Economics and Technology Philipp Rösler – along with his entourage of 100 entrepreneurs – made a whirlwind promo tour of Silicon Valley this week. During the trip, Rösler announced that the
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Fake it ‘til you make it – 10 of the most dangerous pieces of startup advice
Adam Fletcher, owner of the Hipstery, debunks some common startup sayings and clichés. No more pivot, passion or Startup Ninjas… Startups get a lot of advice. The problem with advice is that it’s almost
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Social commerce is like a unicorn: beautiful, alluring and almost totally imaginary
Call it the unicorn problem: beautiful, alluring, magical, and totally non-existent. Social commerce, according to the latest Monetate eCommerce report, is almost as elusive. In fact, social media referrals represents just 1.55 per cent of all
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hy! Berlin – win tickets to the opening day and watch startups battle live for €30k in cash
This year’s hy! Berlin ”unconference” kicks off on 2 June. We’ll see startups fight it out live on stage for a €30k cash prize from hub:raum, the Deutsche Telekom incubator, plus a trip to Silicon Valley. Additionally, there’ll
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