The document discusses entrepreneurship and private equity/venture capital in Southeastern Europe, with a focus on Romania. It provides an overview of the Southeastern Europe Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (SEEPEA), which supports the private equity industry across 8 countries. It then discusses challenges to entrepreneurship in Romania, including perceptions that hard work does not lead to success, weaknesses in the educational system, and issues with the general business environment and infrastructure quality.
A flagship CTO event, this has grown into a platform for knowledge-sharing among peer groups steering ICT projects in e-delivery of health care, education and governance. This Forum echoes the Commonwealth's 2013 theme: The Road Ahead for Africa.
The document discusses innovation and science in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia from a European perspective. It provides backgrounds on the presenters Dr. Andrius Jarzemskis and Gints Turlajs. It then analyzes differences in economic performance between Northern European countries and the Baltics, with the "iron curtain" still impacting the region. Potential approaches for young Baltic companies to compete on global markets are explored, including through triple and quadruple helix innovation models emphasizing cooperation between academia, business, government, and financial systems. Metrics on innovation performance for each country are presented and analyzed.
Boosting Digital Startup Financing in Europe by France Digitale France Digitale
This document summarizes the findings of a study on boosting digital startup financing in Europe. The key findings are:
1) Europe's exit market is the most critical issue, as 9 out of 10 European startups are acquired by non-European buyers. Successful exits are needed to create a virtuous cycle of reinvestment.
2) Europe's financing value chain is unbalanced, with shortages of funding at different stages depending on the country or region. This leads to premature company sell-offs.
3) There is insufficient interaction and cooperation between top European tech hubs like London, Berlin and Stockholm.
The report recommends boosting Europe's exit market, reducing equity shortages, strengthening integration between h
Final report of France Digitale - startups financing - web investors forumFrenchWeb.fr
Rapport (en anglais) rédigé par France Digitale sur demande de la Commission européenne au sujet du financement des start-ups en Europe et sur les pistes pour l'améliorer. Document publié en novembre 2014.
eveniment ICAP: Conferinta de Management al Riscului de Creditare, marti 24 a...teodora_vasilescu
This document provides information about ICAP Group, a business services group operating in Southeastern Europe. ICAP Group has over 1,300 employees and €63 million in annual revenues. It has a strong presence in Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Cyprus. ICAP Group owns the largest business database in the Balkans and has established strategic alliances with international companies like D&B, Bain & Co, Google, and others. ICAP Group operates in Romania through its subsidiaries ICAP Romania and CYCLE European, which together employ over 400 people in Romania and generated €4.7 million in revenues in 2011. ICAP Romania offers credit risk services, marketing solutions, management consulting, and people solutions using a
UNICOM Software is an emerging leader in software engineering and application outsourcing located in Vietnam. It leverages a culture of excellence, professionalism, innovation, strong execution, flexible engagement, and comprehensive delivery to maximize value for clients. Vietnam represents a stable business environment with a young, skilled workforce and liberal foreign investment laws.
The document discusses Virtual Trip, an entrepreneurial ecosystem and startup accelerator based in Greece. It provides an overview of Virtual Trip's history and growth since 2000, its members and investment focus areas. Virtual Trip aims to support startups through providing services like financing, business development, marketing and legal support. It is looking to further grow its ecosystem and find strategic investors or an IPO opportunity for the parent company.
Paris Region, A Unique, Global And Innovative Financial Place Ny Feb 2011Romain Guizard
The document summarizes key information about the Paris region as a financial center. It highlights that the Paris region is at the heart of a 500 million customer market in Europe and shelters 38 headquarters of Fortune 500 companies, making it the second largest concentration in the world. It also describes the Paris region as a unique innovation hot spot and financial hub with leading asset management, banking, trading, and private equity industries. The document promotes the region's attractive environment and support for US companies seeking a presence in Europe.
A flagship CTO event, this has grown into a platform for knowledge-sharing among peer groups steering ICT projects in e-delivery of health care, education and governance. This Forum echoes the Commonwealth's 2013 theme: The Road Ahead for Africa.
The document discusses innovation and science in the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia from a European perspective. It provides backgrounds on the presenters Dr. Andrius Jarzemskis and Gints Turlajs. It then analyzes differences in economic performance between Northern European countries and the Baltics, with the "iron curtain" still impacting the region. Potential approaches for young Baltic companies to compete on global markets are explored, including through triple and quadruple helix innovation models emphasizing cooperation between academia, business, government, and financial systems. Metrics on innovation performance for each country are presented and analyzed.
Boosting Digital Startup Financing in Europe by France Digitale France Digitale
This document summarizes the findings of a study on boosting digital startup financing in Europe. The key findings are:
1) Europe's exit market is the most critical issue, as 9 out of 10 European startups are acquired by non-European buyers. Successful exits are needed to create a virtuous cycle of reinvestment.
2) Europe's financing value chain is unbalanced, with shortages of funding at different stages depending on the country or region. This leads to premature company sell-offs.
3) There is insufficient interaction and cooperation between top European tech hubs like London, Berlin and Stockholm.
The report recommends boosting Europe's exit market, reducing equity shortages, strengthening integration between h
Final report of France Digitale - startups financing - web investors forumFrenchWeb.fr
Rapport (en anglais) rédigé par France Digitale sur demande de la Commission européenne au sujet du financement des start-ups en Europe et sur les pistes pour l'améliorer. Document publié en novembre 2014.
eveniment ICAP: Conferinta de Management al Riscului de Creditare, marti 24 a...teodora_vasilescu
This document provides information about ICAP Group, a business services group operating in Southeastern Europe. ICAP Group has over 1,300 employees and €63 million in annual revenues. It has a strong presence in Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Cyprus. ICAP Group owns the largest business database in the Balkans and has established strategic alliances with international companies like D&B, Bain & Co, Google, and others. ICAP Group operates in Romania through its subsidiaries ICAP Romania and CYCLE European, which together employ over 400 people in Romania and generated €4.7 million in revenues in 2011. ICAP Romania offers credit risk services, marketing solutions, management consulting, and people solutions using a
UNICOM Software is an emerging leader in software engineering and application outsourcing located in Vietnam. It leverages a culture of excellence, professionalism, innovation, strong execution, flexible engagement, and comprehensive delivery to maximize value for clients. Vietnam represents a stable business environment with a young, skilled workforce and liberal foreign investment laws.
The document discusses Virtual Trip, an entrepreneurial ecosystem and startup accelerator based in Greece. It provides an overview of Virtual Trip's history and growth since 2000, its members and investment focus areas. Virtual Trip aims to support startups through providing services like financing, business development, marketing and legal support. It is looking to further grow its ecosystem and find strategic investors or an IPO opportunity for the parent company.
Paris Region, A Unique, Global And Innovative Financial Place Ny Feb 2011Romain Guizard
The document summarizes key information about the Paris region as a financial center. It highlights that the Paris region is at the heart of a 500 million customer market in Europe and shelters 38 headquarters of Fortune 500 companies, making it the second largest concentration in the world. It also describes the Paris region as a unique innovation hot spot and financial hub with leading asset management, banking, trading, and private equity industries. The document promotes the region's attractive environment and support for US companies seeking a presence in Europe.
Zarko Maletin - Plug n Play Tech Center - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Plug and Play Tech Center is an international business accelerator located in Silicon Valley. Since 2006, it has supported over 500 startups, helping create $2 billion in value through IPOs and acquisitions. In 2011, Plug and Play startups raised over $1 billion and had over $500 million in acquisitions. It currently supports 380 startups across 3 locations in Northern California. The accelerator connects startups to Silicon Valley resources like venture capital funding, corporations, events, and services. It has relationships with over 180 VCs, 150 corporations, and 400 angels, and hosts over 400 sessions per year. It also helps international startups expand to Silicon Valley through partnerships with 16 governments.
Duncan Logan - Rocketspace - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
The document outlines RocketSpace's vision to build the ultimate environment for technology startups by bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, talent, and companies. It notes that over 500 people and 110 companies were involved after 13 months, with 1 funding round closing per week on average. The goal is to create a "vortex" that influences participants and helps startups progress along a timeline from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence. European startups are included to add diversity and cross-cultural perspectives.
Alfredo Coppola - US MAC - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
The US Market Access Center (USMAC) is a nonprofit that helps non-US companies expand globally, particularly into Silicon Valley. It has helped over 800 companies in the last 17 years. USMAC provides benefits like industry mentorship and access to investors to both European startups and investors. It measures success based on companies raising over $1 million, achieving $1 million or more in annual US revenue, or being acquired by a US company. Recent accelerator programs run by USMAC in Asia and Europe saw 75% of participating startups meet these success metrics through business deals or term sheets with US companies. USMAC also operates "soft landing zones" in Silicon Valley to help European companies establish a presence there.
Adeo Ressi - Founder Institute - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Build Your Dream Company is a program that helps graduates build meaningful technology companies through a global network of over 500 graduates and 700 mentors across 25+ cities. The goal is to build successful, enduring companies by providing resources, connections, and support. Locations include major cities in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and more are in development. Past results show that 91% of graduates have made progress with their companies, with 46% achieving moderate progress and 14% achieving fast progress after joining the program.
Aydin Senkut - Felicis Ventures - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, CA that has invested $40 million through its second fund. The investment team of 3 people are all immigrants from Turkey, Brazil, and India. Felicis focuses on mobile, e-commerce, education, and health technology companies. It has had 24 exits in 5 years, including companies sold to Google, eBay, Microsoft, Twitter, Intuit, and others. Felicis' international portfolio represents less than 10% of capital but includes some of its most successful companies from countries like Finland, Canada, Brazil, Estonia, Israel, and Slovenia.
Michel Wendell - Nexit Ventures - Finland - Stanford Engineering - Mar 5 2012Burton Lee
Nexit Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mobile and wireless investments. It has offices in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Silicon Valley. The firm has raised $200 million across two funds. It typically invests $500,000 to $5 million per company, with the potential for total investments up to $10 million. Nexit aims to bridge mobile companies in the Nordic region to markets and exit opportunities in Silicon Valley.
Reshma Sohoni - Seedcamp - UK - Stanford Engineering - Mar 5 2012Burton Lee
Reshma Sohoni is the co-founder and Partner of Seedcamp, the #1 European startup accelerator. Seedcamp provides 200 companies annually with 1,500 mentors across Europe and runs 12 events each year. Some notable portfolio companies include Kyko, Blossom.io, CROWD, EDITD, GrabCAD, and Transferwise. Seedcamp helps catalyze the European startup ecosystem by funding early-stage companies and providing them access to mentors and investors across the region.
Jan Rezab - Socialbakers - Czech Republic - Stanford Engineering - Feb 27 2012Burton Lee
Jan Rezab founded a mobile gaming company called REDBOSS at age 14 which he grew to 40 employees over several years before closing in 2007. This experience taught him that losing is viewed very differently in Europe compared to the US. He later founded Socialbakers in 2008 to help brands and marketers understand their social media performance. Socialbakers now has 330,000 users in over 60 countries and helps changing how marketing is approached. Despite challenges in Europe with funding and networks, Rezab believes passionated entrepreneurs will succeed and finding cost-effective talent is possible.
Eirikur Hrafnsson - GreenQloud - Iceland - Stanford Engineering - Feb 27 2012Burton Lee
This document provides an overview of GreenQloud, a cloud computing company founded in 2010 in Iceland. GreenQloud operates infrastructure as a service (IaaS) data centers that are powered entirely by renewable geothermal and hydroelectric energy. The company aims to address the carbon emissions associated with rapid data center and cloud computing growth. GreenQloud utilizes Iceland's renewable energy resources and cold climate to provide carbon-neutral cloud services at competitive prices without a green premium. The company has experienced growth, launching a paid beta in 2011 and opening a second data center location in 2012.
Ilja Laurs - GetJar - Lithuania - Stanford Engineering - Feb 13 2012 v2Burton Lee
GetJar is the world's largest independent app store with over 450,000 apps and 80 million downloads per month. It uses a paid discovery business model where developers bid for exposure of their apps similar to how websites bid in Google Adsense. Some of GetJar's exclusive app launches on their platform include early versions of Angry Birds, Zynga Mafia Wars, and Millionaire City. Founded in 2005 in Lithuania, GetJar now has offices in Seattle and Silicon Valley and has raised $42 million over several funding rounds from Accel and Tiger Global.
Dietmar Harhoff - UniMunich LMU - GSVA - Stanford Engineering - Feb 6 2012 - ...Burton Lee
The document provides information about innovation and entrepreneurship programs in Germany, including:
1) The LMU Entrepreneurship Center which supports startups through education, incubation, and community building. It has supported 49 startups and over 120 jobs in 4 years.
2) Research and innovation in Germany which is led by enterprises, universities, and public research organizations, but lags other countries in entrepreneurship and venture capital investment.
3) The German Silicon Valley Accelerator which is a new bridge program placing selected German tech startups in Silicon Valley for 3 months of mentoring and networking to help them expand internationally.
Stephan Gutzeit - Stiftung Charite - Stanford Engineering - Feb 6 2012 - V2Burton Lee
The document discusses innovation in Germany comparing two different innovation systems represented by Edelweiss and Thomanerchor. It analyzes different types of innovators like Miele, Apple, and those in e-commerce and deep technology. It highlights how German innovators were world-beating in the past in areas like cars and machinery but now tend to copy ideas from the US. The document then focuses on the work of the Stiftung Charité foundation in Berlin which supports medical innovation through entrepreneurship and provides examples of innovators it has supported like Ivo Buschmann and Friedrich Koehler. It discusses how an innovation system needs creative individuals, an innovative domain, and a supportive field to thrive.
Claus Fuglsang - Novozymes - Denmark - Stanford Engineering - Jan 30 2012Burton Lee
Novozymes is a global leader in bioinnovation, producing industrial enzymes and microorganisms. It has over 700 products used in 130 countries across 40 industries. Novozymes has a diverse business portfolio including household care, food and beverages, bioenergy, and more. It invests heavily in R&D, with 14% of annual sales reinvested and over 5,800 patents granted or pending. Novozymes leverages its expertise and global market presence across segments to accelerate innovation and maintain its market leader position.
Frederic Maire - Renault Innovation Silicon Valley - Stanford - Jan 30 2012 v2Burton Lee
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation by Frédéric Maire on Renault Innovation Silicon Valley. It summarizes Renault's 114-year history of innovation in automobile manufacturing, including early innovations like direct drive transmission. It then discusses Renault's current brands, partnerships with Nissan and others, and global production sites. The presentation aims to discuss Renault's focus on innovation as a key lever for the company and its innovation center in Silicon Valley.
Arkady Borkovsky - Yandex Labs - Stanford Engineering - Jan 30 2012Burton Lee
Yandex is the leading search engine in Russia, capturing 61% of the search market share. It is also the largest Russian internet company, generating $161.9 million in revenue in Q3 2011. Yandex has been able to achieve the #1 position in search in Russia despite competition from global players like Google due to its early entry into the market and its focus on the Russian language through technologies like morphology. Local champions can succeed against global competitors by understanding local languages and markets.
Hushpreet Dhaliwal - NACUE UK - Stanford Engineering - Jan 23 2012Burton Lee
Hushpreet Dhaliwal is the CEO of the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE). NACUE works to promote entrepreneurship among students in the UK by supporting university entrepreneurship programs and connecting students to resources. It also advocates for policies that encourage new business creation. NACUE has grown into a large non-profit organization since its founding and aims to make the next decade the most entrepreneurial in UK history.
Hardi Meybaum - GrabCAD - Estonia - Stanford Engineering - Jan 23 2012Burton Lee
This document outlines the lessons learned by the founder of Grabcad over several years starting their company:
[1] Don't give up after initial failures and celebrate small victories. [2] Getting customer feedback is important for product development. [3] Surrounding yourself with supportive people like an understanding spouse is crucial for entrepreneurship. [4] Experimentation and learning from others are key parts of the innovation process. The most important lessons are building the right team of people wanting to learn and develop together.
Andrus Viirg - Enterprise Estonia - Stanford - Jan 23 2012Burton Lee
Enterprise Estonia is the state foundation responsible for business support and development in Estonia. It implements EU structural funds and provides financing and support to enterprises, research and development, and non-profits. It also assists international companies establishing operations in Estonia and helps Estonian companies internationalize. Estonia has a population of 1.36 million and joined the EU and Eurozone in recent decades. It has a strong tech sector and is known as the birthplace of companies like Kazaa and Skype.
Lorenzo Thione - Powerset - Stanford Engineering - Jan 9 2012Burton Lee
Lorenzo Thione co-founded the startup Powerset in 2005, raising $2 million plus $10.5 million in venture capital. As Powerset grew to 72 employees, it faced challenges including high technology risk, capital intensity, aggressive growth, public relations issues, and board management challenges, leading to its acquisition in 2008. Thione discusses lessons learned from Powerset and his experience with entrepreneurship, including the creative effort required to take an idea and vision and create a unique set of circumstances to make it a reality, despite facing ambitious ideas with small chances of success that require iterative development, capital, partnerships, complex management and strong branding.
Zarko Maletin - Plug n Play Tech Center - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Plug and Play Tech Center is an international business accelerator located in Silicon Valley. Since 2006, it has supported over 500 startups, helping create $2 billion in value through IPOs and acquisitions. In 2011, Plug and Play startups raised over $1 billion and had over $500 million in acquisitions. It currently supports 380 startups across 3 locations in Northern California. The accelerator connects startups to Silicon Valley resources like venture capital funding, corporations, events, and services. It has relationships with over 180 VCs, 150 corporations, and 400 angels, and hosts over 400 sessions per year. It also helps international startups expand to Silicon Valley through partnerships with 16 governments.
Duncan Logan - Rocketspace - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
The document outlines RocketSpace's vision to build the ultimate environment for technology startups by bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, talent, and companies. It notes that over 500 people and 110 companies were involved after 13 months, with 1 funding round closing per week on average. The goal is to create a "vortex" that influences participants and helps startups progress along a timeline from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence. European startups are included to add diversity and cross-cultural perspectives.
Alfredo Coppola - US MAC - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
The US Market Access Center (USMAC) is a nonprofit that helps non-US companies expand globally, particularly into Silicon Valley. It has helped over 800 companies in the last 17 years. USMAC provides benefits like industry mentorship and access to investors to both European startups and investors. It measures success based on companies raising over $1 million, achieving $1 million or more in annual US revenue, or being acquired by a US company. Recent accelerator programs run by USMAC in Asia and Europe saw 75% of participating startups meet these success metrics through business deals or term sheets with US companies. USMAC also operates "soft landing zones" in Silicon Valley to help European companies establish a presence there.
Adeo Ressi - Founder Institute - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Build Your Dream Company is a program that helps graduates build meaningful technology companies through a global network of over 500 graduates and 700 mentors across 25+ cities. The goal is to build successful, enduring companies by providing resources, connections, and support. Locations include major cities in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and more are in development. Past results show that 91% of graduates have made progress with their companies, with 46% achieving moderate progress and 14% achieving fast progress after joining the program.
Aydin Senkut - Felicis Ventures - Stanford Engineering - Mar 12 2012Burton Lee
Felicis Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, CA that has invested $40 million through its second fund. The investment team of 3 people are all immigrants from Turkey, Brazil, and India. Felicis focuses on mobile, e-commerce, education, and health technology companies. It has had 24 exits in 5 years, including companies sold to Google, eBay, Microsoft, Twitter, Intuit, and others. Felicis' international portfolio represents less than 10% of capital but includes some of its most successful companies from countries like Finland, Canada, Brazil, Estonia, Israel, and Slovenia.
Michel Wendell - Nexit Ventures - Finland - Stanford Engineering - Mar 5 2012Burton Lee
Nexit Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on mobile and wireless investments. It has offices in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Silicon Valley. The firm has raised $200 million across two funds. It typically invests $500,000 to $5 million per company, with the potential for total investments up to $10 million. Nexit aims to bridge mobile companies in the Nordic region to markets and exit opportunities in Silicon Valley.
Reshma Sohoni - Seedcamp - UK - Stanford Engineering - Mar 5 2012Burton Lee
Reshma Sohoni is the co-founder and Partner of Seedcamp, the #1 European startup accelerator. Seedcamp provides 200 companies annually with 1,500 mentors across Europe and runs 12 events each year. Some notable portfolio companies include Kyko, Blossom.io, CROWD, EDITD, GrabCAD, and Transferwise. Seedcamp helps catalyze the European startup ecosystem by funding early-stage companies and providing them access to mentors and investors across the region.
Jan Rezab - Socialbakers - Czech Republic - Stanford Engineering - Feb 27 2012Burton Lee
Jan Rezab founded a mobile gaming company called REDBOSS at age 14 which he grew to 40 employees over several years before closing in 2007. This experience taught him that losing is viewed very differently in Europe compared to the US. He later founded Socialbakers in 2008 to help brands and marketers understand their social media performance. Socialbakers now has 330,000 users in over 60 countries and helps changing how marketing is approached. Despite challenges in Europe with funding and networks, Rezab believes passionated entrepreneurs will succeed and finding cost-effective talent is possible.
Eirikur Hrafnsson - GreenQloud - Iceland - Stanford Engineering - Feb 27 2012Burton Lee
This document provides an overview of GreenQloud, a cloud computing company founded in 2010 in Iceland. GreenQloud operates infrastructure as a service (IaaS) data centers that are powered entirely by renewable geothermal and hydroelectric energy. The company aims to address the carbon emissions associated with rapid data center and cloud computing growth. GreenQloud utilizes Iceland's renewable energy resources and cold climate to provide carbon-neutral cloud services at competitive prices without a green premium. The company has experienced growth, launching a paid beta in 2011 and opening a second data center location in 2012.
Ilja Laurs - GetJar - Lithuania - Stanford Engineering - Feb 13 2012 v2Burton Lee
GetJar is the world's largest independent app store with over 450,000 apps and 80 million downloads per month. It uses a paid discovery business model where developers bid for exposure of their apps similar to how websites bid in Google Adsense. Some of GetJar's exclusive app launches on their platform include early versions of Angry Birds, Zynga Mafia Wars, and Millionaire City. Founded in 2005 in Lithuania, GetJar now has offices in Seattle and Silicon Valley and has raised $42 million over several funding rounds from Accel and Tiger Global.
Dietmar Harhoff - UniMunich LMU - GSVA - Stanford Engineering - Feb 6 2012 - ...Burton Lee
The document provides information about innovation and entrepreneurship programs in Germany, including:
1) The LMU Entrepreneurship Center which supports startups through education, incubation, and community building. It has supported 49 startups and over 120 jobs in 4 years.
2) Research and innovation in Germany which is led by enterprises, universities, and public research organizations, but lags other countries in entrepreneurship and venture capital investment.
3) The German Silicon Valley Accelerator which is a new bridge program placing selected German tech startups in Silicon Valley for 3 months of mentoring and networking to help them expand internationally.
Stephan Gutzeit - Stiftung Charite - Stanford Engineering - Feb 6 2012 - V2Burton Lee
The document discusses innovation in Germany comparing two different innovation systems represented by Edelweiss and Thomanerchor. It analyzes different types of innovators like Miele, Apple, and those in e-commerce and deep technology. It highlights how German innovators were world-beating in the past in areas like cars and machinery but now tend to copy ideas from the US. The document then focuses on the work of the Stiftung Charité foundation in Berlin which supports medical innovation through entrepreneurship and provides examples of innovators it has supported like Ivo Buschmann and Friedrich Koehler. It discusses how an innovation system needs creative individuals, an innovative domain, and a supportive field to thrive.
Claus Fuglsang - Novozymes - Denmark - Stanford Engineering - Jan 30 2012Burton Lee
Novozymes is a global leader in bioinnovation, producing industrial enzymes and microorganisms. It has over 700 products used in 130 countries across 40 industries. Novozymes has a diverse business portfolio including household care, food and beverages, bioenergy, and more. It invests heavily in R&D, with 14% of annual sales reinvested and over 5,800 patents granted or pending. Novozymes leverages its expertise and global market presence across segments to accelerate innovation and maintain its market leader position.
Frederic Maire - Renault Innovation Silicon Valley - Stanford - Jan 30 2012 v2Burton Lee
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation by Frédéric Maire on Renault Innovation Silicon Valley. It summarizes Renault's 114-year history of innovation in automobile manufacturing, including early innovations like direct drive transmission. It then discusses Renault's current brands, partnerships with Nissan and others, and global production sites. The presentation aims to discuss Renault's focus on innovation as a key lever for the company and its innovation center in Silicon Valley.
Arkady Borkovsky - Yandex Labs - Stanford Engineering - Jan 30 2012Burton Lee
Yandex is the leading search engine in Russia, capturing 61% of the search market share. It is also the largest Russian internet company, generating $161.9 million in revenue in Q3 2011. Yandex has been able to achieve the #1 position in search in Russia despite competition from global players like Google due to its early entry into the market and its focus on the Russian language through technologies like morphology. Local champions can succeed against global competitors by understanding local languages and markets.
Hushpreet Dhaliwal - NACUE UK - Stanford Engineering - Jan 23 2012Burton Lee
Hushpreet Dhaliwal is the CEO of the National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (NACUE). NACUE works to promote entrepreneurship among students in the UK by supporting university entrepreneurship programs and connecting students to resources. It also advocates for policies that encourage new business creation. NACUE has grown into a large non-profit organization since its founding and aims to make the next decade the most entrepreneurial in UK history.
Hardi Meybaum - GrabCAD - Estonia - Stanford Engineering - Jan 23 2012Burton Lee
This document outlines the lessons learned by the founder of Grabcad over several years starting their company:
[1] Don't give up after initial failures and celebrate small victories. [2] Getting customer feedback is important for product development. [3] Surrounding yourself with supportive people like an understanding spouse is crucial for entrepreneurship. [4] Experimentation and learning from others are key parts of the innovation process. The most important lessons are building the right team of people wanting to learn and develop together.
Andrus Viirg - Enterprise Estonia - Stanford - Jan 23 2012Burton Lee
Enterprise Estonia is the state foundation responsible for business support and development in Estonia. It implements EU structural funds and provides financing and support to enterprises, research and development, and non-profits. It also assists international companies establishing operations in Estonia and helps Estonian companies internationalize. Estonia has a population of 1.36 million and joined the EU and Eurozone in recent decades. It has a strong tech sector and is known as the birthplace of companies like Kazaa and Skype.
Lorenzo Thione - Powerset - Stanford Engineering - Jan 9 2012Burton Lee
Lorenzo Thione co-founded the startup Powerset in 2005, raising $2 million plus $10.5 million in venture capital. As Powerset grew to 72 employees, it faced challenges including high technology risk, capital intensity, aggressive growth, public relations issues, and board management challenges, leading to its acquisition in 2008. Thione discusses lessons learned from Powerset and his experience with entrepreneurship, including the creative effort required to take an idea and vision and create a unique set of circumstances to make it a reality, despite facing ambitious ideas with small chances of success that require iterative development, capital, partnerships, complex management and strong branding.
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