The German government is finally ready to start delivering its €2bn package of state aid to startups, according to ministers, but confusion still reigns over which startups will get the money and when. | Continue reading
Resilience is a key skill for entrepreneurs and startups – one that they typically exercise on a daily basis in the ever-changing tech landscape. But few of us could have imagined the resilience and resourcefulness that have sprung up from companies over the last couple of months … | Continue reading
If you’re an early-stage startup founder with an amazing business proposition, then you’ve surely considered raising funding. Leapfunder prepared an overview of essential things you need to know before you decide to raise funding. | Continue reading
Healthcare startups which have been patiently building and scaling for years are now facing the challenge of hyper-growth. | Continue reading
Silicon Allee is proud to announce a year-long events and content collaboration with London & Partners. The partnership will demonstrate the solidarity and collaboration between London and Berlin’s startup communities. It was a typical workday in late November 2019. The Silicon A … | Continue reading
Tech communities are coming up with innovative solutions for coronavirus-related challenges. ermany’s biggest hackathon to date, WirVsVirus, began with a major technical problem. “We invited 43,000 people to Slack, and the way we planned on doing it didn’t work out,” says Anna H … | Continue reading
In this interview we talk to Johanne Schwensen, CEO of It’s Complicated, extroverted entrepreneur, mother of two, ex-techno DJ and practicing psychologist. How many co-founders do you have? We are four. Two therapists who came up with the idea and two developers who we got on bo … | Continue reading
In this interview we talk to Johanne Schwensen, CEO of It’s Complicated, extroverted entrepreneur, mother of two, ex-techno DJ and practicing psychologist. How many co-founders do you have? Or are you a solo founder? We are four. Two therapists who came up with the idea and two … | Continue reading
In the time of social distancing, what’s happening to the spaces that exist to bring people together? | Continue reading
Hannover, March 11th, 2014 – EIT ICT Labs calls young innovators with the drive to start a new business and early stage start-ups to submit their cutting edge ideas. Successful participants not only win up to 40,000 Euro cash; victory also means office space for six months, and c … | Continue reading
After months in the making, renowned US accelerator Techstars last week finally announced officially that it is launching a program in Berlin. The accelerator will be based in the centre ...The post Techstars Berlin’s Jens Lapinski Q&A: ‘There is Space Here for a Horizontal, Inde … | Continue reading
Hands up those of you out there in full-time jobs who haven’t at least thought about finding a new one in the past year? Right, put your hands down, you ...The post Time For a Career Change? Jobspotting Takes Job Search ‘Out of the 90s’ appeared first on Silicon Allee News. | Continue reading
If you have ever received a notification text from an app on your smartphone, there is a decent chance it was powered by Twilio. The San Francisco-based cloud communications company, ...The post Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson Q&A: ‘We’re Trying to Make Communication Less Dumb’ appeared f … | Continue reading
Introduction This column is intended for a business audience, and lacks technical details – it is the author’s intent to communicate sound security strategies to C-level personnel tasked with making ...The post The Sony Pictures Hack and Learning Information Security Lessons the … | Continue reading
The irony was too obvious to miss: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with senior management from Vodafone, ruminating over Europe’s digital future in a building which once held enormous amounts ...The post The Meat on the Bones of Germany’s Digital Policy: Merkel at Digit … | Continue reading
If you’re a top politician, it probably feels like the world is constantly out to get you.* So when you embark on what seems like a nice little day trip ...The post Nick Clegg Looks to Berlin to Learn the Lesson of Transforming a Rundown City into a Tech Hub appeared first on Sil … | Continue reading
Last week I was at a premiere for a new thriller series produced in Berlin called Glashaus. It had all the makings of a mid-size or independent movie premiere; the ...The post Audio is the New Black: How Audible Can Hear the Sweet Sound of Success appeared first on Silicon Allee … | Continue reading
From dramatic mountains and pretty Italian towns to grand Victorian train stations and the world’s biggest library: The Idea Challenge journey moved on from Trento last week and hit London ...The post Idea Challenge Finals: Adapting to a Changing Urban Landscape in London appeare … | Continue reading
The trip from Bergamo airport to Trento starts getting interesting once you pass by the bottom end of Lake Garda and swing north. Then the mountains rise up either side ...The post Idea Challenge Finals: Exploring Cyber-Security and Privacy in Trento appeared first on Silicon All … | Continue reading
A year or two ago, an emerging startup in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) might well have considered a move west – with Berlin being a popular destination – for ...The post Czech This Out: Prague Accelerator StartupYard Illustrates CEE Potential appeared first on Silicon Allee N … | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Sanaz Nayeb of EIT ICT Labs If there is one city in Europe that truly deserves the label ‘modern’ then surely it is Stockholm. With ...The post Idea Challenge Finals: Staying Cool in Sweden with the Internet of Things appeared first on Silicon Allee News. | Continue reading
Event discovery platform Vamos has marked a significant milestone by releasing a new Android app. The Berlin-based startup, which re-emerged in August with Version 3.0 and new investors, says that ...The post Vamos Launches New Android App as It Marks a Million Discovered Events … | Continue reading
Who says couponing is dead? After a turbulent history that has seen rapid growth, acquisition by Google, founder reacquisition and a paring back of operations, DailyDeal has finally, after more ...The post Coupon Comeback: The New Slimline DailyDeal Finally Breaks Even appeared f … | Continue reading
This is the last in a three-part series by Parham Mirshahpanah looking at startup failures (read part one here and part two here). Parham lived in Berlin for nearly eight years before ...The post Top Tips: Learning From Your Startup Failures – Part 3, Validation appeared first on … | Continue reading
A Berlin-based startup has launched a new platform which it says will revolutionise how developers test their software – claiming it will make finding bugs a good thing. Previously specialising ...The post When Finding Software Bugs is a Good Thing: testCloud Launches New Platfor … | Continue reading
All things considered, it’s a bit of a trek out to Adlershof, a part of Berlin on the periphery of the city close to the (hopefully) soon-to-be-closed Schönefeld Airport. And ...The post Idea Challenge Finals: Showcasing the Smartest of Energy Solutions in Berlin appeared first o … | Continue reading
The famous Silicon Allee monthly breakfast is back – it’s the best place in town for everyone in the tech scene to meet new people, catch up with old friends ...The post Join Us for the Silicon Allee Monthly Meet Up appeared first on Silicon Allee News. | Continue reading
The rise and rise of carsharing is a relatively easy trend to explain: For people who live in densely-populated urban areas, owning a car is a royal pain in the ...The post Carsharing City: Audi Shared Fleet Targets Company Car Market appeared first on Silicon Allee News. | Continue reading
This is a guest post by Błażej Hadzik of netguru. Peer code review is not about criticising individual mistakes. It’s about making progress on a project as a team and keeping ...The post Top Tips: A Guide to Peer Code Review and Why You Should Do It appeared first on Silicon Alle … | Continue reading
The annual IT-Gipfel – or IT Summit – is organised by Germany’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, and is the country’s leading event for top political and industry players ...The post Meeting the Top Dogs from German Politics and IT: An Entrepreneur’s View of the IT-Gipfel … | Continue reading