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Meet the cool creatives from Hyper Island – the “digital Harvard” grooming a crop of top startup talent
Swedish digital learning institute Hyper Island first opened its doors in 1996 in a former military prison on an island in Karlskrona. There, in the unorthodox educational setting, students practiced experiential learning and were challenged
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Opinion: Gidsy and GetYourGuide – a much-needed wakeup call from Berlin’s “startup Inception”
Well, it was nice while it lasted. Last week news dropped that Gidsy, the “Airbnb for experiences” and de facto poster-child of the Berlin startup scene was being acquired and subsumed by fellow Berlin
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Twago founder Gunnar Berning steps down, head of PR follows suit
Berlin-based online service broker Twago has announced its CEO and cofounder Gunnar Berning is stepping down. He will remain an advisor to the company. Head of PR, Christoph Burbes, has also left the company after
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Goodbye Gidsy – GetYourGuide snaps up travel experience rival
Gidsy, the Berlin-based platform that hosts tours and activities in cities, is being taken over by tour-booking platform GetYourGuide. The Gidsy team will be integrated into GetYourGuide, with personnel already working from their new
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VIDEO: “What would you tell your younger self?” European founders and VCs step back in time
Look back to when you started out in your career – fresh-faced and ready to take on the world. What’s the biggest piece of advice you’d give to your younger self? We posed the
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VentureVillage’s Top 10 video reports of 2012
From meeting footballing robots to exploring the latest tech trends and cultural issues, it’s been a bumper year for our Berlin video crew. We’ve recorded and compiled a breadth of stories and events in
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Adyen launches mobile payment solution Shuttle across Europe
Dutch global payment company Adyen yesterday announced the launch of Shuttle, a new mobile point of sale solution. Launching simultaneously in London, Amsterdam and Berlin, the new payment device allows merchants to accept both
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Investor Spotlight: Sunstone Capital’s Jimmy Nielsen – “VCs get a lot of opportunities to screw people”
Jimmy Nielsen is a founder of Sunstone Capital, an early-stage VC that c0unts Amen and Gidsy among investments in Berlin. Sunstone Capital is based in Copenhagen and also has offices in Menlo Park (California) and Båstad (Sweden) – it specialises in
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Jobs of the week – work for Gidsy, Sociomantic, Sofatutor, Monoqi, Klarna
Berlin – spiritual home of trance music and with U-Bahn stations that range from the beautiful to the brutal. This week cult Berlin band Trike demonstrate how you can merge the two Berlin mainstays
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VIDEO: Peter Read – “I’d love to find another 5-10 companies in Berlin over the next year or so”
London-based Angel investor Peter Read is becoming a distinguished figure in the Berlin startup scene with a string of German companies under his belt. With the likes of MoviePilot, Gidsy, EyeEm, Loopcam, Wummelkiste and
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