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From idea to success: the startup journey in 19 quotes

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There's no better way to learn about the startup journey than to hear from founders and CEOs themselves. Here are 19 quotes that will inspire you to achieve your goals.

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7 amazing ways to keep your app users active during holiday season

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Holidays (summer or Christmas) means tragedy for many apps and startup products that are not related to vacation. Is holidays time and your users' engagement is reducing? Follow these amazing 7 tips to avoid user abandonment during holiday season. Gifs included. Apply carefully.

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“Big Spanish companies are still very afraid of buying startups” Aquilino Peña, Kibo Ventures

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Kibo Ventures is one of the most active and best known venture capital firms in Spain. Aqulino Peña is one of its founding partners and we sat down with him to know more about Kibo.

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Venture Capital according to Mark Suster, Berlin’s Moped postmortem and more. SXPLR’s curated picks

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There are many interesting stories and articles out there about startups, venture capital and technology in general. However, finding them is not easy on a day to day basis. To help you with that, we've chosen six articles that are worth reading.

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Will 2014 be a record year for European startups?

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European startups raised €2.1 billion in venture financing in Q2 2014. If the trends continues, 2014 could be the best year for European startups in recent memory.

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Meet Typeform, the startup that is shaking up the way we answer questions

How many hours do we spend during our lifetime filling up forms online? Boring, endless, repetitive questions we have to answer everywhere. Typeform was born to save us time and make it a wonderful experience. We interviewed Typeform CEO, David Okuniev. Want to learn how to build an innovative business model around a typically boring task?

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European VC firms: Google Ventures crosses the pond, Seedcamp’s maturation and LVP’s gaming fund

Europe Venture Capital firms: Google Ventures

More money is flowing into the European startup ecosystem. Google Ventures, Seedcamp and London Venture Partners all announced new funds in the past few weeks, looking to capitalize on Europe's tech talent.

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Looking for funding? Top 14 business angels in Spain you should meet

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Looking for early stage money in Spain? These are the 14 business angels you should meet.

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“There are enough angel and series A/B investors in Spain” Javier Burón, SocialBro

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There are a bunch of Twitter analytics tools out there, but only a few are considered are considered to be top-notch. SocialBro is one of them and we've interviewed its co-founder and CEO, Javier Burón.

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Sexy startups attract sexy investors

We’re insisting again: having good profiles is crucial to be found on Startupxplore. We prepared a couple of posts with tips and recommendations some days ago, but today we are going to show you how one of our startups has applied all these tips into his profile. Let’s go!

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