Mike Butcher “Editor At Large”,
TechCrunch Twitter.com/mikebutcher LinkedIn.com/MikeButcher Facebook.com/MikeButcher mbites.com/contact mikebutcher@techcrunch.com (Note: I get 500 emails a day, so GOOD LUCK) European Tech Media in Silicon Valley European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering February 9 2015

• Formerly: magazines newspapers &
The Industry Standard • Founded Coadec.com • Co-Founded TechHub.com • Founded TheEuropas.com • Advisor: Mayor of London • Advisor: UK Prime Minister

Silicon Valley looks like this

And operates in this

And we look like this

Tech Media tries to focus
on: • Local startups • Western / Eastern Europe • Big cities London/Berlin • The Valley

The task of covering startups
has been helped by clustering e.g. Co-working & accelerators London: TechHub, The Trampery, Level39, Hoxton Mix Warsaw: Gamma Rebels Prague: Startup Yard Berlin: Betahaus, Ahoy Berlin, The Factory ETC

London’s Tech Startup Cluster in
2009

Silicon Roundabout / Tech City
2 years later See http://www.duedil.com/site/london-real-tech-startups

Big tech firms

White Bear Yard and Warner
Yard = Investors and startups under the same roof

‘Silicon Allee’ in Berlin

‘Silicon Sentier’in Paris

In fact, we can graph
this:

What helped? DRINKING!
E.g. Silicon Drinkabout

Startups & Clusters are sexy!

Geeks in feature articles?!

Geeks in
Fashion
Magazines?!

The Media can help
the pipeline WSJ, FT, VentureVillage, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch, GigaOm, RudeBaguette.com, SiliconAllee.com, ArcticStartups.com, Tech.eu,

Challenges • Fragmented markets • Competition
Opportunities • Unicorns are coming • Will feed into bigger ecosystem

Getting TechCrunch’d helps

AND, here’s the good news:
We’re about to get our own PayPal Mafia(s)

Thanks.