If you have been following our blog, you have likely come across our earlier post about Berlin’s booming startup scene. Aiding its development are various accelerator programs that support startups through seed investment, networking, mentorship, education, and public pitch opportunities. Furthermore, there is an increasing number of co-working spaces that bring together like-minded entrepreneurs. With so…
After three months in the accelerator program, the teams in our current batch —|pipe|, LiveEO, Chargery, disrupt space, and Ghost — met at the AtomLeap head office in Berlin-Kreuzberg last week. The goal of the meeting was to create a platform for the teams to interact, exchange experiences, talk about their development, and to support each other…
Image retrieved from moore rubel yudell What exactly constitutes good leadership? Numerous practitioners, academics and trainers have devoted books, workshops, conferences, articles and numerous social media posts to the topic of what good leadership looks like. Seeing how entrepreneurship requires a particular set of leadership skills, we thought we’d draw your attention to five…
Finding qualified tech staff is a problem that companies operating in virtually every sector, all over the world cite as one of their leading challenges. The demand for workers is so great, that barriers to entry in IT are much lower compared to other professions. Thus, many companies are willing to forego requirements like a…
There are diverging opinions on what the Berlin startup scene is really like. While Berlin is booming, its growth is a relatively recent phenomenon, as German companies began to move to the city less than thirty years ago, when it was restored as the capital of reunified Germany. While there is a lot of hype…