Startups and basketball: thoughts attending the 2015 Israeli Startup Conference
What would Greece have to teach to the ‘startup nation’?
Author: Dimitris Tsingos
A GREXIT that’s been a resounding success (and it’s not what you think)
There’s also the other side of Greece. That of a country of hardworking people, world class scientists, risk-taking investors, brilliant programmers and visionary entrepreneurs.
Mourning the loss of Professor and personal mentor Christos Nikolaou
During his tenure as a Professor and Rector of the University he was a force for change that brought forth great progress despite the hostility of the complacent status quo that culminated in a badly orchestrated attack by the yellow press.
On vtrip’s 14th birthday: My big, sincere and warm ‘Thank you’
‘It’s all about the people’. Only people can make the difference.
Starttech Ventures receives EBAN’s ‘Best European Business Angel Week Initiative’ award
EBAN’s ‘Best European Business Angel Week Initiative’ Annual Award for the Business Angel awareness events
Regulating the ‘Internet of Things’
Distributed dynamic web service composition
The founder as a musician
Being an entrepreneur and especially a startup founder, is all about having a perfect timing, managing your team, making disparate elements play well together
A plan for the support and encouragement of private investments
Any successful strategy for handling the economic crisis will have to be centred on large scale job creation
Startup funding: moving from good intentions to rationality
You cannot build a Silicon Valley on charity ― it’s bad for business, and it’s bad for those who really need charity.
The European entrepreneurial satisfiability problem
Tom Leighton is a very special person. He’s a Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT as well as the founder of Akamai, a company that revolutionized multimedia content delivery in the late 90s and helped create the unified video-voice-image internet experience that we today enjoy. The Boolean satisfiability problem (affectionately known as SAT) is one […]
Starting up the hard way
thoughts on the European and Silicon Valley startup scenes There’s a scene in the “Muppet Movie” (1979), where Gonzo shares his dream of going to Mumbai to become a movie star. When told by Fozzie that “You don’t go to Mumbai to become a movie star! You go where we’re going: Hollywood!“, he retorts: “Sure, […]
Thoughts of a European serial start-up entrepreneur before going to the Silicon Valley
The Greek experience, the Silicon Paranoia and the need for a European start-up growth model I launched my first start-up, along with four more co-founders (Periklis Akritidis, Nikos Ventouras, Miltos Vassilakis and Charalampos Gikas – one of them had the following email address: “JFK at VTRIP dot NET”) and Critical Publics on September 5th 2000, exactly […]