Talk by Mike Butcher, Editor-at-Large - TechCrunch Europe (UK), at Stanford on Feb 9 2015, in our session on 'European Tech Media in Silicon Valley'. Website: http://www.StanfordEuropreneurs.org YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordEuropreneurs

1. Mike Butcher
“Editor At Large”, TechCrunch
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European Tech Media in Silicon Valley
European Entrepreneurship @ Stanford Engineering
February 9 2015

2. • Formerly: magazines
newspapers &
The Industry Standard
• Founded Coadec.com
• Co-Founded TechHub.com
• Founded TheEuropas.com
• Advisor: Mayor of London
• Advisor: UK Prime Minister

3. Silicon Valley looks like this

4. And operates in this

5. And we look like this

6. Tech Media tries to focus on:
• Local startups
• Western / Eastern Europe
• Big cities London/Berlin
• The Valley

7. The task of covering startups
has been helped by clustering
e.g. Co-working & accelerators
London: TechHub, The Trampery,
Level39, Hoxton Mix
Warsaw: Gamma Rebels
Prague: Startup Yard
Berlin: Betahaus, Ahoy Berlin,
The Factory
ETC

9. London’s Tech Startup
Cluster in 2009

10. Silicon Roundabout / Tech City
2 years later
See http://www.duedil.com/site/london-real-tech-startups

12. Big tech firms

13. White Bear Yard and Warner
Yard = Investors and startups
under the same roof

14. ‘Silicon Allee’ in Berlin

15. ‘Silicon Sentier’in Paris

16. In fact, we can graph this:

17. What helped?
DRINKING!
E.g. Silicon Drinkabout

19. Startups & Clusters are sexy!

20. Geeks in feature articles?!

21. Geeks in
Fashion
Magazines?!

22. The Media can
help the pipeline
WSJ, FT,
VentureVillage,
TheNextWeb,
TechCrunch,
GigaOm, RudeBaguette.com,
SiliconAllee.com,
ArcticStartups.com, Tech.eu,

23. Challenges
• Fragmented markets
• Competition
Opportunities
• Unicorns are coming
• Will feed into bigger ecosystem

24. Getting TechCrunch’d helps

25. AND, here’s the good news:
We’re about to get our own
PayPal Mafia(s)

26. Thanks.
Questions?
@mikebutcher