Mike Butcher - TechCrunch Europe - UK - Stanford Engineering - Feb 9 2015

Mike Butcher “Editor At Large”, TechCrunch

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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 RebelsPrague: Startup Yard Berlin: Betahaus, Ahoy Berlin, The Factory ETC

London’s Tech Startup Cluster in 2009

Silicon Roundabout / Tech City2 years laterSee 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 pipelineWSJ, FT, VentureVillage, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch, GigaOm, RudeBaguette.com, SiliconAllee.com, ArcticStartups.com, Tech.eu,

Challenges • Fragmented markets • CompetitionOpportunities • 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)

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