The Global Ventures Summit (GVS) is the leading summit experience with the greatest chance of securing startup capital or Venture Capital financing. Companies in the last four GVS events have secured funding of over $25M USD. The summit is structured to focus on insights from high-profile venture capitalists, and also on funding! Deal rooms will be set up during the summit to fulfill this purpose. Good ideas don’t just come out of Silicon Valley, and GVS seeks to support the best business ideas, startups and entrepreneurs coming out of innovative markets across the globe. Global Ventures Summit is arriving to Luxembourg in November, hosted for the first time in Europe. Why did you choose Luxembourg? What do you expect out of the summit? The first event is scheduled for the 19/20/21st of November in Belval Luxembourg, and the objective is to hold the summit in Luxembourg on a yearly basis until at least 2022. The goal of GVS Luxembourg is to expose seasoned Silicon Valley VCs … [Read more...] about The Silicon Valley is coming to Luxembourg in November
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Silicon Valley weathers US siege amid widening backlash
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to open a probe into whether Google is committing “treason.” Sen. Bernie Sanders said he would push to break up Facebook, Google and Amazon. Sen. Ted Cruz took aim at Google in his campaign against alleged censorship of conservatives. And Democrats accused the internet giants of squelching competitors and slammed Facebook’s plans to offer a digital currency. And that was just Tuesday. But for all the flak Silicon Valley was taking from across Washington, the tech companies maintain a major advantage: Despite their shared suspicion and growing distrust of the tech industry, Democrats and Republicans appear to hold little common ground on what the problem is and how to fix it. And that could mean the odds of legislative punishment in the near term remain low. The attacks Tuesday dealt with a hodgepodge of issues and sometimes-incompatible complaints, though often in withering terms, in particular at the morning … [Read more...] about Silicon Valley weathers US siege amid widening backlash
Sleepless in Silicon Valley
FIRST, CLOSE the blackout blinds in your bedroom. Eat dinner at 4pm, and do not eat or drink anything after 6pm. Put on your blue-light blocking glasses at 8pm. Set your bedroom temperature to 67ºF (19.4ºC) and your electric blanket to 69.8ºF (21ºC). At 8.45pm, meditate for five to ten minutes. Switch on your deep-wave sound machine. Put on your Oura sleep-tracking ring. You are now, finally, ready for slumber. This may all sound a bit over the top. But this is the “sleep hygiene” routine described in a recent blog post by Bryan Johnson, who sold his previous company to eBay for $800m and is now chief executive of Kernel, a startup developing brain-computer interfaces. He admits that his sleep routine has “decimated my social life”, and that his partner sleeps in a different room, but says all this trouble is worth it, because it has boosted his level of “deep sleep” by as much as 157%. He has bought Oura rings for all his … [Read more...] about Sleepless in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley: Geography is destiny
IT IS A bit like covering the world’s most powerful financial institutions without ever setting foot in New York. For eight years I have written about the technology industry from London—first as an intern at The Economist, then as a tech correspondent at Quartz and eventually, in my spare time, as news editor back at The Economist. Yet I did so without ever having visited Silicon Valley, the stretch of land between San Francisco and San Jose that forms the spiritual and economic home of all things tech. In part, this was made possible by the industry’s very nature: distributed, connected and mobile. It is possible to interview Satya Nadella in Paris, pose questions to Eric Schmidt in New Delhi and listen to Mark Zuckerberg in Barcelona. New giants emerge from Beijing, unlikely business models from Mumbai and startups from Nairobi. But Silicon Valley has long been the star around which everything else revolves. Get our daily newsletter Upgrade your inbox and get our … [Read more...] about Silicon Valley: Geography is destiny
Jack Dorsey’s 5-meals-a-week diet looks a lot like a Silicon Valley-style eating disorder
Every day of the working week, I anxiously check WhatsApp for updates on “beef strip boy”. My friend who works in tech tells us near-daily tales of a man in her office who exclusively eats beef strips for every meal – microwaving (yes, microwaving) them, heralding them, and flooding his Instagram account with pictures of them. In my friend’s office of roughly 25 staff, she is the only person who eats anything resembling normal meals. Aside from beef strip boy, every other person in her department uses Huel – the meal replacement drink popularised by Silicon Valley’s tech bros. The enthusiasm for meal replacements is part of a growing obsession with “bio-hacking” – a tech scene staple in which people try to “hack” their bodily functions for the sake of extreme efficiency. Tech bros across California are attempting to optimise every element of their physical lives, from sleeping to drinking to eating to defecating, in … [Read more...] about Jack Dorsey’s 5-meals-a-week diet looks a lot like a Silicon Valley-style eating disorder