AWS Community Day CPH - Three problems of Terraform
Europe's Beta Mode: Culture, policy and web startups
1. E U R O P E ' S B E TA M O D E .
Relaunching Europe / Thessaloniki / Jan. ‘14
Dimitris Kalavros-Gousiou (@kalavros)
Found.ation TEDxAthens Nest Media
2. L E T ’ S TA L K
A B O U T:
• Europe’s current condition.
• 3 major European issues
that, imho*, kill innovation
and entrepreneurship.
• good news.
*in my humble opinion
3. “Europe. Here is what I mostly hear about Europe: “I took my
wife/husband to Paris last year for our anniversary, and we
dropped by Rome. Great food, so much history, Europe is
wonderful!” For vacation.”
6. “I saw many EU passports in Silicon Valley.”
–NEELIE KROES
!
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE @EU_COMMISSION LEADING
@ D I G I TA L A G E N D A E U A N D # C O N N E C T E D C O N T I N E N T P L A N S .
7.
8. “Europe lead the industrial advancement in the
last two centuries. We lost this position in the 21st
Century. We must return.”
–NEELIE KROES
!
VICE PRESIDENT OF THE @EU_COMMISSION LEADING
@ D I G I TA L A G E N D A E U A N D # C O N N E C T E D C O N T I N E N T P L A N S .
11. “(i) a qualified venture capitalist, a qualified super angel investor, … or such other entity
or set of investors, as determined by the Secretary, has devoted a qualified investment
of not less than $100,000 to the alien’s United States business entity;…”
!
- Immigration reform bill, June 2013
13. “If you think of it, children starting school this year
will be retiring in 2065. Nobody has a clue -despite all the expertise that's been on parade for
the past four days -- what the world will look like
in five years' time. And yet we're meant to be
educating them for it..”
–SIR KEN ROBINSON
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TED CONFERENCE 2006
15. Found.ation has hosted more than 85 *free of charge*
Educ.ation Classes on Web Development, Web
Design, Marketing, Business, Legal and Accounting
since May 2013.
18. Campusbus travels around the country,
setting up week long training camps in
larger towns and cities where trainers
deliver skills improvement workshops.