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If you don’t feel comfortable with it, drop it
We’ve all experienced a proliferation of startup programs across the geography. With new programs come more mentors. Some are more valuable than others. And we all know this. There are two sides to mentoring. The advice received and the implementation of that advice. Most mentors will give contradictory advice. This
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Do you want to change your company’s corporate culture? Learn how now!
Hello, everyone! We’re very happy to announce that we’re partnering with our good friends from Improvement21 to deliver a new workshop on CultureHack in London! What is this CultureHack thing? Well, we will be focusing on Change Management, Culture improvement and Storytelling in a business context. So, essentially, how do
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The malleable nature of stories
One of the most powerful aspects of stories is their malleable nature. You can tell a story today and if the story is good enough, it will be told long after you created it. Sometimes the story is so good, it will be told for generations to come. What is
Happy New Year
Hello everyone!! After the Christmas break we’re back for more, but first, we wanted to send our best wishes to everyone! We hope you guys had a fantastic New Year’s eve and a great beginning of 2013! We sure did! We have very exciting plans for this year so we hope you
Startup Exchange Program is back
This guest post was written by Inês Silva, serial entrepreneur and business builder. She co-founded Startup X – a non-profit organization aiming to multiply the impact of entrepreneurs and startups all over the world. Managing Director of Startup Pirates – an international accelerator with operations in 11 countries, Managing Director of Startup Exchange Program and the Managing
Tictail is eCommerce made simple
It should come as absolutely no surprise that something as beautifully designed and as simple to use as Tictail was born in the industrial trendiness of Stockholm, Sweden. In its first 18 months of life, the online shop creation tool has been described by countless blogs and news portals as
Nail your startup pitch at 42 Beers
One more time, and before we head into the new year, we, that is, the Press42 team, are getting ready for the next edition of the 42 Beers event, our own training camp for your start-up pitch. Plenty of events focus on start-up pitching, but in essence, most of them deal
Startups, your landing page sucks
Why do start-ups get competitions so wrong? I’m in shock after preliminary evaluating the LeWeb start-up competition. For starters, three companies out of the sixteen had their landing pages in their local language, French, Italian and Spanish. The Italian and the French were, at least, also available in English, not
Our two start-up favorites at LeWeb
I’m going to go ahead a make a quick prediction on the start-ups that might win the LeWeb competition this year. This is exclusively based on their webpage, my understanding of what they’re trying to do (sometimes quite liberal understanding), and the WOW factor they have. I’m declaring Agents of
Meet the LeWeb startups
With few days for LeWeb Paris, I wanted to introduce you to this year’s startups selected for the official competition. We tend to cover this event every year but this time is specially interesting for the novelty of the theme, Internet of Things (IoT), which makes the competition much more
A Guide to Crowd-Funding: Seed Funding with the Community
I have always been skeptical about crowd-funding when it comes to startups, and I’m not sure why exactly. I think I’ve always thought of it as being a messy and fragmented way of finding seed money. But when I think about it, my reaction to crowd-funding tells me that actually
Is your city a startup ecosystem?
My good friends from Startup Compass strike back with a new fascinating report called: “The Startup Revolution: The Global Rise of Startup Ecosystems And How They Compare“. I just got a glimpse at the report and it’s definitely going to be huge for a lot of governments. I must say
Interested in Machine to Machine? Come to LeWeb
As every year, we’re gearing for the last sprint of the year, December and with Christmas down the horizon, it’s a tradition to talk about this years LeWeb edition. I’m very excited about it this year, specially for the theme Löic and Geraldine have chosen: The Internet Of Things. As I
