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Upcoming Events

Wednesday, August 23

Bryan Dove, CTO at SkyScanner

Fireside Chat

Bryan Dove is CTO at Skyscanner, a UK based unicorn acquired by Ctrip for $1.7 billion. His leads the growing engineering teams of over 400 people at an accelerated scale across ten global offices. Previously, Bryan held multiple roles at Microsoft and was the Head of Data Engineering at Skype where he founded and led a globally distributed team to build Skype's real-time big data architecture.

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Thursday, September 21

Building world-class companies with Joel Spolsky (Stack Overflow, Trello)

Fireside Chat

Joel Spolsky co-founded Trello.com (sold to Atlassian for $425 million) & is the CEO/co-founder of Stack Overflow, where millions of developers go to learn, share their knowledge and build careers. Stack Overflow currently serves 50 million programmers monthly. Joel is also the founder of Fog Creek Software & previously worked at Microsoft - in the team designed VBA as a member of the Excel team.

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Past Events

Summer Startup Party with Robin Klein (UK's godfather of VC) & Steve O'Hear (TechCrunch)

Summer Startup Party with Robin Klein (UK's godfather of VC) & Steve O'Hear (TechCrunch)

 Startup Grind Conference

Startup Grind Conference

 How to grow your startup: Reshma Sohoni, Founder & CEO of Seedcamp

How to grow your startup: Reshma Sohoni, Founder & CEO of Seedcamp

 Gerard Grech (CEO at Tech City UK)

Gerard Grech (CEO at Tech City UK)

 Jeff Lynn & Jeff Kelisky (Seedrs)

Jeff Lynn & Jeff Kelisky (Seedrs)

 Reggie Bradford (ORACLE, EX-VITRUE, EX-WEBMD)

Reggie Bradford (ORACLE, EX-VITRUE, EX-WEBMD)

 Alexander Zacke (Auctionata)

Alexander Zacke (Auctionata)

 Andy Shannon (Startupbootcamp)

Andy Shannon (Startupbootcamp)

 Scott Harrison (charity: water)

Scott Harrison (charity: water)

 Kristo Käärmann and Thorold Barker (TransferWise & WSJ)

Kristo Käärmann and Thorold Barker (TransferWise & WSJ)

 Summer Party with Ophelia Brown and Mike Butcher (LocalGlobe & TechCrunch)

Summer Party with Ophelia Brown and Mike Butcher (LocalGlobe & TechCrunch)

 Nick Hungerford (Founder of Nutmeg)

Nick Hungerford (Founder of Nutmeg)

 None (None)

None (None)

 Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital (with Sarah Wood, Suranga Chandratillake & Harry Briggs)

Eileen Burbidge, Passion Capital (with Sarah Wood, Suranga Chandratillake & Harry Briggs)

 Juraj Vaculik, CEO & Co-Founder (Aeromobil.com)

Juraj Vaculik, CEO & Co-Founder (Aeromobil.com)

 Brian Rose (London Real)

Brian Rose (London Real)

 John Harthorne (Founder & CEO of MassChallenge)

John Harthorne (Founder & CEO of MassChallenge)

 Jean Oelwang (President of Virgin Unite)

Jean Oelwang (President of Virgin Unite)

 Jenny Tooth (CEO, UK Business Angels Association)

Jenny Tooth (CEO, UK Business Angels Association)

 Matt Barrie (Founder/CEO of Freelancer.com)

Matt Barrie (Founder/CEO of Freelancer.com)

 Sarah Wood (Unruly)

Sarah Wood (Unruly)

 Paddy Cosgrave (Web Summit)

Paddy Cosgrave (Web Summit)

 Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher (TechCrunch)

 M. Jacobsen, E. Jones (Dirty Dancing, Enterp Nation)

M. Jacobsen, E. Jones (Dirty Dancing, Enterp Nation)

 Andrej Kiska (President of Slovakia)

Andrej Kiska (President of Slovakia)

 Divinia Knowles (Mind Candy)

Divinia Knowles (Mind Candy)

 Brent Hoberman (LastMinute.com / Made.com)

Brent Hoberman (LastMinute.com / Made.com)

 Brent Hoberman (LastMinute.com - LIVE streaming)

Brent Hoberman (LastMinute.com - LIVE streaming)

 Guy Kawasaki (Canva/Ex-Apple)

Guy Kawasaki (Canva/Ex-Apple)

 David Buttress (Just Eat CEO)

David Buttress (Just Eat CEO)

 Ben Medlock (SwiftKey)

Ben Medlock (SwiftKey)

 Sarah Drinkwater (Google)

Sarah Drinkwater (Google)

 Jon Bradford (Techstars)

Jon Bradford (Techstars)

 Alastair Stewart (Etc Venues)

Alastair Stewart (Etc Venues)

 Vernon Hill II. (Metrobank)

Vernon Hill II. (Metrobank)

 Mike McGee (Framestore)

Mike McGee (Framestore)

 Pankaj Chaddah (Zomato)

Pankaj Chaddah (Zomato)

 Renaud Visage, Kevin and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)

Renaud Visage, Kevin and Julia Hartz (Eventbrite)

 Jacqueline Gold (Ann Summers)

Jacqueline Gold (Ann Summers)

 Richard Reed (Innocent Drinks)

Richard Reed (Innocent Drinks)

 Richard Moross (MOO)

Richard Moross (MOO)

 Caprice Bourret (By Caprice)

Caprice Bourret (By Caprice)

 Michal Stencl (Sygic)

Michal Stencl (Sygic)

 Bernhard Niesner (Busuu)

Bernhard Niesner (Busuu)

 Giles Palmer (Brandwatch)

Giles Palmer (Brandwatch)

 Russell Hall (Hailo)

Russell Hall (Hailo)

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Marian Gazdik

London Director

MD, Europe at Startup Grind. Marian is also Founding Partner at IPM Growth, a VC company investing in technology scale-ups from the Central & Eastern Europe. He is an advisory board member at T-Mobile Czech Republic & Telekom Slovakia. Ex-Orange, ex-Reebok. Marian was featured in New Europe 100 (organised by Financial Times, Google, Respublica and Visegrad Fund), the list of outstanding challengers who are leading world class innovation from Central and Eastern Europe.

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Tim Elder

London Co-Director

London Co-director at Startup Grind. Co-founder & CEO of Fromigo, changing how people explore new cities. As a Product Manager, I delivered products to global markets with Google, Skype, and Rolls-Royce Aerospace. Make sure to talk to me about travel, digital products, hardware products, UX, and interesting metrics.

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Petar Savic

London Co-director

Tech Entrepreneur turned investor with a key interest in project management within an Digital Media and Internet environment, bridging the gap between technical (hacker), creative (hipster) and commercial (hustler) requirements.

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​Why did Qualtrics co-founder and COO Jared Smith make the fundamental mistake of going into business with his family? At the Startup Grind Europe 2016 Conference, Smith stated that family is a benefit for their founding team. “The benefit of being brothers is since we were little kids we could beat on each other and have the hardest arguments, then still be buddies 10 minutes later.”
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Prezi CTO Halacsy: Silicon Valley is a Good School But Lacks Extra Sense of Purpose

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Michele Price 2016-08-10T20:22:25+00:00
Whether you’re at a startup hub like Silicon Valley or a small community overseas, building a successful startup is challenging. Launching a product requires much more than just finding smart people, hustling, and inventing something new. You need a team who can help you solve the hardest problems and advice you.
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Media Round Up: Startup Grind Europe 2016 News from Around the Web

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Michael Gasiorek 2016-07-15T07:00:00+00:00
Startup Grind's first ever European conference was, in your words, "really inspiring," full of "amazing connections," and, by the account of one LivingSocial cofounder, surprising: "Every time I see Startup Grind," he said, "it seems to be getting bigger and bigger. The speakers and the quality somehow seems to go up and up. How the F--- do you do it?" As Derek would say, "great team = great results," and you can see some of the dedicated people behind the event above. We'll definitely be coming back next year - but if you can't wait that long, join our next Europe conference in London this year!
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