What would you say needs to change? Would you say if were in the US you'd have had a chance to work on the product longer and spend less time on fundraising?
Hi everyone! Together with Startup Digest and Startup Genome we put together a map of 3 events for different communities. Right now, we have around 150 communities represented and growing. The way we select events is by counting the number of submissions different events get. Results are updated within 24 hours. Completely subjective list, based on the majority's opinion. Would love to hear your feedback/comments! Andrius @WSR
Initially, we were aiming at covering 100 countries. However, due to lack of data from some countries we cut it down to 50.
We are working with our global community of contributors and we are looking for people who are willing to help us. If interested, just send us an email: [email protected]
Lukas, World Startup Report team here. We worked together with the Economist putting this together.
We did look at private/public AND also acquired companies (in case of Allegro).
Would you have a source for the acquisition information? Keep in mind that we looked at 3 companies per country in which case it could have only been coincidence. Our goal was to show the relative extent of what is possible in different countries rather than to provide an exact estimate of each company.
Adam, thanks so much for the information. Indeed, our World Startup Report was not aware of this company. We will update our data (can't promise that the Economist will change their infographic though). Thanks again!
The Netherlands have an interesting situation. Even though everyone would say the startup ecosystem is booming, the country has not managed to produce BIG success stories. We selected Shapeways as one of the top 3 companies there. They've raised almost $50M to date (http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/shapeways) and we put our guesstimate in a range of $150M - $200M. The company is actually founded by Dutch founders and they do have quite a big number of their employees in the Netherlands (close to 50 but should double-check on this one).
With that in mind, it'd be interesting to hear what would you put as the 2nd (or 3rd) most valuable Dutch internet company? Thanks!