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Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Black Death.

In Italy we have a role model to study and try to replicate for startups: the Renaissence

#silicon valley #renaissance #italy #startups

Is your growth as efficient and aerodynamic as possible, or are you trying to fly with an ever-widening parachute tailing you?

That is an interesting recent metric for startups in the SaaS space

#quick ratio #startup metrics

(86,2M Euros invested in Italy in S1-2016. Something is moving in the Bel Paese)

#startups #italy #funding

318 1 153 There’s a certain type of SaaS company I run from. This type of company has great customers, a great product, and decent customer acquisition costs, in an interesting space. A true winner if you stop there. But … It sells to ...

Why you’ll never make a $100M ARR company selling at $5 a month subscription

[Be Silicon valley] What it takes is the right people. If you could get the right ten thousand people to move from Silicon Valley to Buffalo, Buffalo would become Silicon Valley.

How to Be Silicon Valley

#paul graham

It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

How to Be Silicon Valley

#startups #silicon valley #paul graham #essays

How to undermine the best European startup hub and probably the best chance to win big for European startups. What happen now?

#startups #brexit

#pitch #avc #seed

The markets have been volatile these past few months. There have been positive and negative reversals of fortunes for Internet companies, and so it's always good to benchmark what's going on.

#startup #performance

Five days ago, we brought to you substantial rumors that Tencent was about to acquire Clash of Clans developer Supercell for a sum of around $9 billion. Today, the deal was made official, as the Chinese company has now bought the 73% stake that Japanese telecoms corporation SoftBank owned for a cool

This is really huge!!

(via Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape / Mozilla Documentary - YouTube)

#must be watched #netscape #code rush

Something you wan to read, especially if you are female fighting for your startup in male world

#startups #female founders #jessica livingston #yc

Nothing else you do will matter if you’re not making something people want. You can be the best spokesperson, the best fundraiser, the best programmer, but if you aren’t building a product that satisfies a real need, you’ll never succeed. […]

Jessica Livingston's Pretty Complete List on How Not to Fail · The Macro

#jessica livingston #yc #startups #make something people want

“Shallow though this test may seem, it shows London's not a startup hub yet. No hotel in SF could afford this rule. https://t.co/kRiFpjfE5U”

I agree: these are the hardest things to change in Europe when you talk about startups

#paul graham #yc #london #startups

Sam Altman, the famous Silicon Valley-based...

His tweet: “Low point: turned down at the bar of the Ritz for a meeting because I'm wearing sport shoes"-Sam Altman YCombinator

#yc #sam altman #london tech hub

As the chart above shows, the highest correlated factor to acquisition multiple in 2016 is cash flow margin

The Impact to Startups of the LinkedIn Acquisition

#saas

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