The StartupBootcamp compared the basic cost types of running a startup in Berlin, San Francisco and London.
Well, if cost was the only criteria, I am sure there are even better places (considering the rising cost for office and living space in Berlin).
The VentureCapital Magazin (a German print magazine) had a head line this month, roughly translated into English: “incubators and accelerators help to overcome infancy - a market overview”.
While they actually didn’t list accelerators (just mentioned some in the article), they are listing “incubators”. I believe this list is the most comprehensive that I have seen so far. However, they are mixing up things here a bit.
Firstly, this is listing mainly company builders and for that it is a quite comprehensive list. Secondly, there is some wrong labeling - while HackFwd, Hubraum and YouIsNow are incubators, SevenVentures is a corporate VC. The parenting media group, ProSiebenSat1, does have an accelerator (ProSiebenSat.1 Accelerator) and an incubator (Epic Companies) and they are all three part of the business unit Digital & Adjacent, however, they are separate initiatives.
The article mentions that the autor doesn’t see a clear definition of accelerators, incubators, and company builders. I would disagree and suggest an easy, non-academic differentiation (in an European context):
Would you agree?
LUMApartners’ Terence Kawaja is well known for explaining the complicated ad tech space. Now he came up with a new chart to explain marketing tech. Nice outline of the potential components for you online business…
Loïc Le Meur, a serial entrepreneur and the organizer of the Le Web conference, has posted a presentation on the Sharing Economy.
“A data base for seed accelerators and their companies” - hmm, seems to me that this is quite incomplete. Just pulling data from CrunchBase will not do the trick. Data would be helpful, though.
This analysis is based on Ventureloop data for the top 5 EU countries (UK, Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, and France) in the period Jan/Feb/Mar 2013. It ranks VCs by jobs created at their portfolio companies.
No surprise here: the largest job creators are Index Ventures, Balderton Capital and Sequoia Capital.
The German Manager Magazin published the investors’ deck of the Samwer brothers (Rocket Internet). Bold statement-heavy, McKinsey-style deck…
Thanks to TechCrunch / Greg Kumparak for providing this insight.
I guess 100k downloads are much easier to get than 50k revenue/mo ;)
Great post by Steve Blank. Finally, there is someone trying to define the role of startups in the innovation process of large cooperations. I am totally hooked on this topic.
It is a recent trend that large corporations in Germany start their own accelerator and incubator programs - you can expect this topic to be well covered on my blog.
Source: steveblank.com
The Irish tech startup guide by Frontline Ventures.
