This time last year 1,317 attendees from 19 countries had booked their Web Summit tickets. A year later, with 7 months to go, we’ve passed 27,000 attendees from 149 countries, all of whom as of today you can meet on our new attendee page as of today.The post Meet our first 27,000 … | Continue reading
Stephen Wolfram’s life has been spent on the border of what’s considered possible.That can mean either trying to convince people that the ideas he has can actually be executed, or looking on amused as areas in which he worked 20 years previous suddenly enter the public consciousn … | Continue reading
As Mankind and Cactus Jack, Mick Foley put himself through the wars for a generation of wrestling fans. Now he’s in a different fight. Ahead of his appearance at our US event Collision alongside Tiki Barber, we spoke to him about where he gets the strength. Before Mick Foley beca … | Continue reading
The most important gathering of startups on the planet happens in Lisbon next November. Register for two half-price tickets. – Jordan Mathias is a Founding Partner at professional networking site uKonect. In this guest post he talks us through his team’s experience at Web Summit … | Continue reading
As the man who in 2010 helped orchestrate the return to power of the British Conservative Party, Oxford-educated Steve Hilton was the ultimate insider. He’s the former director of strategy for David Cameron and is credited with rebranding the British Prime Minister as a progressi … | Continue reading
One of Toronto’s favourite sons reckons “it’s hot up in the Six”, the city’s nickname being a reference to the 6s in its two area codes, 416 and 647. Drake isn’t shy about telling the world about what’s going on in Toronto. Its startup founders aren’t as confident though.The post … | Continue reading
Albert Wenger, partner at Union Square Ventures and an early investor in Etsy and Tumblr, joined us to give us an insight into how he has time for it all. From listening to robots to not trusting your gut, these are his top productivity tips.The post Forget the news and listen to … | Continue reading
Over the course of a career that's included senior product roles at LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter as an early employee, Josh Elman has figured out what separates the most talented people from the challengers. He tells us. The post The difference between tech’s most talented and … | Continue reading
You know the way every waiter in LA has a screenplay or showreel? They all have startups in Tel Aviv. At approximately one startup per 1,000 inhabitants, Tel Aviv is the most startup-dense city in Europe. You’re never far away from an entrepreneur. The post Tel Aviv: The startup … | Continue reading
2 for 1 tickets are being sold this Thursday: here's everything you need to know.The post How to redeem your 2 for 1 ticket this Thursday appeared first on Web Summit Blog. | Continue reading
Anna Fang sits at the nexus of arguably one of the most important areas of growth on the planet. She’s CEO of ZhenFund. Founded in 2006, the firm is an early-stage seed fund that invests primarily in startups based in mainland China. | Continue reading
Ryan Hoover doesn’t know why things happen. He doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing either. But that’s ok. | Continue reading
In another life Kathryn Petralia would be an English professor. But today she’s a techie. The COO and co-founder of Kabbage, to be exact. They’re the alternative lending platform with a rumoured valuation of $1 billion and a recent funding round of $135 million.We caught up with … | Continue reading
Lisbon has seen many redirections in its history. It's latest voyage sees the city repositioning itself as a flagship in the global startup ecosystem. We sought help from Lisbon’s new generation of navigators – Beta-i CEO Pedro Rocha Vieira, Portugal Ventures’ Marco Fernandes and … | Continue reading
Whether anyone cares about what you share is debatable. Perhaps worse, it’s going out of fashion. That’s according to Nico Sell, the evangelist for keeping yourself to yourself online and co-founder of secure messaging service Wickr. | Continue reading
Mikko Hyppönen carries his failures with him. Having worked in computer security for a quarter of a decade, he says he’s racked up a long list of mistakes. And not the good kind of mistakes either.“Many have been mistakes where there's been no lessons learned, or ones I haven’t b … | Continue reading
“Cut the sh**, I’m here to do business.”It’s not a phrase that has passed Sarah Michelle Gellar’s lips, but she has wanted to say it, many times. | Continue reading
When Lisa Falzone stepped into a meeting with her first client, she knew her company Revel Systems had a bright future as an ordering app. Except it didn’t. That one meeting would change the course of Revel Systems entirely.How did Revel Systems begin life as an ordering app and … | Continue reading
Despite being branded ‘The Coolest Kid on the Nordic Block’, Copenhagen has often remained a bit of a mystery to those outside Scandinavia. Inside the city lives a startup movement which over the past ten years has gathered significant pace, and has begun to force the rest of the … | Continue reading
Four years’ time. What’s the world going to look like in 2020? We’re asking people in our network just that, for our new interview series 20/20.Here we talk to Redpoint's Ryan Sarver. | Continue reading
The chances of startup success are slim. Ninety percent are destined to fail. You know two things: that you’ve got a one-in-ten chance of success, and that you have to have the utmost confidence in your company. How do you balance hope with reality? | Continue reading
Philip Krim launched Casper in April 2014. 28 days later, it generated more than $1 million. He has become a notable entrepreneur in the New York tech scene, after the startup raised nearly $70 million. What does a day in the life of a founder of an award-winning startup look lik … | Continue reading
Jason Fried doesn’t do alarm clocks. Hasn’t done for years and years. He lives about three miles from Basecamp’s Washington Boulevard, Chicago address and says that he doesn’t need any help in waking up in time for work. There’s isn’t a clock beside his bed to confirm the time, w … | Continue reading
Without Jeff Pulver there’d arguably be no Skype, Snapchat or Facetime. Without the Pulver Order anyway. In 2004 Jeff was the chief writer of the Pulver Order, a US ruling that meant internet voice communications (VoIP) would not be subject to strict telecoms regulations. Ever si … | Continue reading