The European Pirate Summit - Cologne, September 10-11th 2012

After our first successful looting when we entered and robbed DuMont Venture, we tasted blood and continued with another venture capital company, this time in Munich: Astutia – Astutia Ventures takes minority stakes in syndicated deals in the early and growth stages. In selecting their investments, they look for excellent teams, plausible business ideas, and …

At the last Pirate Summit in 2011 Jan Senderek, the CEO of Popset was presenting his service at our pitch competition – without being backed by a VC, accelerator or whatever and under the name “Eeve”. Several months later Jan and his team entered the ship of Y Combinator, so reason enough to ask how …

Among others we consider the Pirate Summit as a fun way to increase our knowledge in every aspect that can somehow help in running a startup. Coding is one of our main areas we want to improve this year. Not only since Douglas Rushkoff’s publication of Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital …