So far only large startups have been able to apply for funds from the Corona aid package. Now smaller companies will also be able to apply for funds. Berlin would like the money to be paid out within the next four weeks. Original German article: https://www.gruenderszene.de/business/corona-hilfen-kleine-startups If so far there…

A year ago the German government announced a new Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation to promote disruptive new technologies. Now the first of these projects are being publicly announced. Original German article: https://www.gruenderszene.de/technologie/agentur-fuer-sprunginnovationen-projekte The German Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (Sprin-D) supports groundbreaking ideas to help German companies stay in…

With his startup Everphone, Jan Dzulko leases preconfigured smartphones to businesses. Several VCs are currently investing in the company and new round is planned in the fall. Original German Article: https://www.gruenderszene.de/business/everphone-finanzierung-34-millionen The Smartphone lending company Everphone just closed a €34 million ($40M) round. The Series B round is lead by…

Welcome to Founders Scene, my little project to work on my German and at the same time bring a slice of the German startup world to the English speaking world. Living in Berlin basically full time now and being deep in the startup world here, I’ve decided that a good…

Es war einmal ein Esel. Er war ein zuverlässiges Tier, denn er hatte jahrelang hart für seinen Herrn gearbeitet. Jeden Tag musste er schwere Säcke tragen. Der Herr war aber egoistisch und dachte nur an sich selbst. Als der Esel alt war und müde von der schweren Arbeit, musste er…

At Chatterbug, in order to help people get together in person and practice their language skills in a friendly environment with fellow learners, we have been hosting events called “Chatternachts” every month in multiple cities in Germany (Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Nuremberg). …

Scott Chacon is CEO of the online language learning company Chatterbug. This week a new paper was published in the journal Cognition titled “A Critical Period for Second Language Acquisition” that used a new, viral Facebook-quiz-powered method of gathering a huge linguistic dataset to provide new insights into how human…

Since I’ve been fortunate enough to go from a pretty successful valley startup to a new startup just getting off the ground, I tend to get asked pretty often what I learned at GitHub and what lessons we learned that we’re carrying over. I figured since I’m thinking about it…

I should start off by saying that I am not a car guy. If you know me, you’ve probably never heard me talk about a car, and you likely will never hear me talk about one again. My dad is a car guy. He rebuilt Porches before I was born…