This Friday in Athens, Open Coffee is the place to be! ☕️🤝 Come join 300 RSVPs at 6pm in Benaki Museum to connect with fellow geeks and find your next startup partner. Three exceptional founders will share their story and vision on stage: - Manos Psychogyiopoulos, SomewhereWarm – bootstraping to an acquisition by WordPress' Automattic - Ioannis Sintos, Uizard ($19m raised) – delivering AI-generated UIs to millions of designers worldwide - Stavros Papadopoulos, TileDB ($57m raised) – building the next generation of databases Access is free and open to everyone – share with your peers and see you there! RSVP link in the comments.

Cadence acquires Thessaloniki, Greece based BETA CAE simulation software leader for $1.24 Billion 💥 cadence.com/en_US/home/compa…

After I was convicted of murder and sentenced to 26 years in prison, when the earth dropped out from beneath me, and global shame rained down on top of me, I had my first ever epiphany. /thread

"We had to let some super-talented team members go [...]. In a way, a part of the company 'died'." I don't understand why leaders hesitate to share stories about hardship and moments of weakness or grave mistakes. 👇 1/4 startuppirate.substack.com/p…

Which would you rather have: 1 startup making $10,000 MRR 10 startups making $1,000 MRR each

I’m far more bullish on bootstrapped startups than venture backed. The long tail of entrepreneurship is real.