Author: Pericles Nicolaos Ghikas

Peri Ghika

Pericles Nicolaos Ghikas (Peri Ghika) was born and raised in an agricultural family at the village of Kriekouki, in rural Attica, Greece. He later moved with his family to Keratsini, where he finished his secondary education. In 1997 he was admitted to the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete. In 2000 he joined Virtual Trip Ltd, Greece's first student startup, as an intern. He left the company in December 2011 as a senior software engineer, having in the meantime dropped out of his studies. Having been infected by the entrepreneurship virus, Peri joined Starttech Ventures in January 2012 and works there since then; he has evolved to a senior venture partner, working both on the venture building and seed investments pillars of the organization.

- Entrepreneurship

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 […]

- Entrepreneurship

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, […]

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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 […]