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Culture Matters Why there is no Google or Facebook in Europe.
Marian Zange CTO at ezeep
November 29, 2011
E-Club Seminar Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hi, I’m Marian!
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$78bn MPS market size in 2015
Startups in Europe
What is this
Europe?
Europe is...
733 million people
50 countries
40 spoken languages
Where is the European
Silicon Valley?
Berlin, London or Paris?
Or maybe Prague or Warsaw?
Innovation Clusters
Focus on Germany
What the Germans do
our rock stars
The Cannon King
your rock stars
we need role models
Education
startup incubators
Would you start a company if there is a risk to fail?
No way!
61%
33%
European Commission Flash Eurobarometer 160 – Entrepreneurship, 2004
Why are people afraid
to fail?
In most parts of Europe society still doesn’t accept failure as a natural outcome of a risky endeavour.
YOU
Failure should be seen as a valuable experience.
Marian Zange CTO [email protected] Twitter: @marianzange Phone: +1 (415) 574-0536
ezeep GmbH Ohlauerstr. 43 | 10999 Berlin | Germany www.ezeep.com
