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Herty Tammo and the school that pays its students
He began in a family business making metal doors. At Startup Wise Guys, Herty Tammo turned the expensive lessons of entrepreneurship into an education with money attached.
Sebastian Borek and the case for staying close to the factory
After New York startups and the family business, Sebastian Borek helped turn Bielefeld into a meeting place for founders and industry. Now at HTGF, he is bringing the same instinct to the work of financing European technology.
Québec Tech Is Building an Export Team, Not Another Startup Club
Québec has no shortage of clever technology. Québec Tech is betting that the missing machinery is commercial - a selective, publicly backed route from local proof to international revenue.
Startup Wise Guys puts a price on learning to sell
The Estonia-born accelerator backs B2B founders before many investors will take the meeting. Its offer pairs capital with a demanding commercial education - and a bill worth reading.
Founders Foundation’s bet: build startups where the customers already are
In Bielefeld, a nonprofit backed by Bertelsmann Stiftung teaches founders to sell to Germany’s industrial heartland. Its wager runs on patient funding, practical education and a refusal to take startup equity.
Luke Button Is Teaching Insurance to Stop Asking, ‘Any Update?’
After startups in cloud software, warehouse staffing and retail brokerage, Luke Button found his next company in the least glamorous sentence in commercial insurance: ‘Any update?’ Hedge is his attempt to make the answer arrive before the opportunity disappears.