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How empowering people makes you stronger.

How empowering people makes you stronger.

It may not be an obvious thing for everyone, yet I often notice during my mentoring sessions with startups (also within…
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Bolesław Drapella
Nov 5, 2019
Changing the perspective is priceless. Thoughts after Kauffman Fellows Asia VC Summit in Japan

Changing the perspective is priceless. Thoughts after Kauffman Fellows Asia VC Summit in Japan

Asia-Pacific is currently the most dynamically growing market in the world, both in terms of GDP growth as well as VC activity ahead of…
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Marcin P. Kowalik
Apr 24, 2019
The Web Summit in Lisbon gathered 70k+ attendees this year

The Web Summit in Lisbon gathered 70k+ attendees this year

This year’s Web Summit gathered over 70k participants in Lisbon, which is once again an increase compared to last year. The scale of the…
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Jarosław Pilarczyk
Nov 29, 2018
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Marcin Popiel
Oct 22, 2018

Interview with the Marketer: The Entrepreneur Chronicles II

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Marcin Popiel
Jun 29, 2018

Interview with the Pharmacist: The Entrepreneur Chronicles.

Some of you may find the title similar to the Interview with the Vampire movie and yes, that was my intention. I am not an entrepreneur myself, but having worked with Black Pearls VC fund for two years I met lots of them and…

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Maciej Skórkiewicz
Apr 12, 2018

Exit strategies — some pro tips for startups.

Official communication of VCs is packed with investments news. Common practice…

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Bogdan Zhukevych
Jan 10, 2018

Startups in Ukraine: before the take off (part 1)

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Marcin Zagorski
Nov 6, 2017

Brain drain vs brain circulation — Q&A on how should Poland catch up with the Nordics, Germany and the UK in terms of innovative economy.

Traveling from Stockholm to Gdańsk is just a short trip, which takes a little more than an hour…

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Wojciech Drewczyński
Nov 3, 2017

Satellite data is the “new oil”. 5 reasons why.

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Ewa Treitz
Oct 2, 2017

It’s time to get out of the playground.

Venture funding into Central & Eastern Europe is on the rise…

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Alexander Lubanski
Sep 12, 2017

What do we get from Polish Startup Report 2017?

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Ewa Treitz
Nov 20, 2016

How does the Polish Startup Ecosystem compare to the West?

On November 3rd I published some data on the Polish venture funded startups. To categorize the companies I used a taxonomy, which my colleague and a Kauffman Fellow, Gil Dibner, uses to regularly share venture stats on Western…

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Ewa Treitz
Nov 3, 2016

What`s hot in Poland?

The past year I have spent collaborating with a great team of Black Pearls VC, one of the 9 major Polish venture funds. For the first time in my 8-year long VC career, I had the pleasure of working with the entrepreneurs coming from my own home country. Much has changed since I left Poland…

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