http://kamleitner.com/2007/04/26/yeurope-mikro-venture-kapital-fur-europa/ web-consultant & -developer Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:17:14 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://kamleitner.com/2007/04/26/yeurope-mikro-venture-kapital-fur-europa/comment-page-1/#comment-404 blogs.23.nu TNG » Blog Archive » YEurope Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:19:02 +0000 http://kamleitner.com/2007/04/26/yeurope-mikro-venture-kapital-fur-europa/#comment-404 [...] Das Ding nennt sich “YEurope” und hat ob des Namens recht harsche Plagiatsvorwürfe einstecken müssen: sie seien ein Rip-Off von Y-Combinator. Stimmt warscheinlich sogar, aber warum nicht? Paul erklärt hier, hier und hier ganz gut warum das so ist. (Blogsphere Coverage z.B. hier, hier und hier. [...] [...] Das Ding nennt sich “YEurope” und hat ob des Namens recht harsche Plagiatsvorwürfe einstecken müssen: sie seien ein Rip-Off von Y-Combinator. Stimmt warscheinlich sogar, aber warum nicht? Paul erklärt hier, hier und hier ganz gut warum das so ist. (Blogsphere Coverage z.B. hier, hier und hier. [...]

]]> http://kamleitner.com/2007/04/26/yeurope-mikro-venture-kapital-fur-europa/comment-page-1/#comment-2 nonsmokingarea.com » Blog Archive » YEurope: a Micro-VC for europe Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:56:40 +0000 http://kamleitner.com/2007/04/26/yeurope-mikro-venture-kapital-fur-europa/#comment-2 [...] it’s an inconvenient but somehow accepted opinion that society & politics in europe (and Austria probably in particular) don’t really foster entrepreneurship and small-scale business the way they do overseas. YEurope, a (Micro-)Venture Capital firm based in Vienna and launched earlier this week by Paul Böhm (Metalab) is a welcome change. obviously inspired by US-VC Y-Combinator, YEurope is offering small-scale funding to local web/tech-startups. for more info read the controversial at Y-Combinator’s forum or the followup at my not-yet-launched-officially-shiny-german blog. [...] [...] it’s an inconvenient but somehow accepted opinion that society & politics in europe (and Austria probably in particular) don’t really foster entrepreneurship and small-scale business the way they do overseas. YEurope, a (Micro-)Venture Capital firm based in Vienna and launched earlier this week by Paul Böhm (Metalab) is a welcome change. obviously inspired by US-VC Y-Combinator, YEurope is offering small-scale funding to local web/tech-startups. for more info read the controversial at Y-Combinator’s forum or the followup at my not-yet-launched-officially-shiny-german blog. [...]

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