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@SimonSchaefer
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Father, Founder & CEO of @Factory and Angel Investor in Europe, President at Allied for Startups
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Joined August 2011
Let’s make EU-INC a reality! Europe badly needs less country-by-country fragmentation in capital markets and company formation - for large companies and small. Fill out the EU consultation form before Sep 30: https://t.co/UZHy9gOKHr Go @euinc_petition! @donaldtusk
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On the anniversary of the 'Draghi report', and ahead of @EU_Commission President @vonderleyen's State of the (European) Union tomorrow, the need for bold measures for innovators has never been clearer. 🇪🇺 We could all use a good dose of @euinc_petition: https://t.co/pjDpdzzhO5
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🤯 MERZ AND MACRON JUST CONFIRMED A PAN-EUROPEAN LEGAL ENTITY IS COMING It's now up to all of us to ensure the solution that gets passed into law is fit for purpose for European startups. That means: EU–INC. 🚀 Support us and we all will get this done together. 🇪🇺🤝
🔴 Emmanuel Macron et Friedrich Merz s'expriment 🗣️ Friedrich Merz : "Nous voulons des entreprises européennes fortes et des emplois de qualité. Pour cela il faut un changement de cap radical."
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Periodic reminder that you have until the 30th of September to let EU bureaucrats and politicians know what YOU think about, what YOU have experienced in, and how much better we can make things for YOU in this beautiful but fragmented mess we call Europe. https://t.co/TR4kFPBdbe
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Periodic reminder that you have until the 30th of September to let EU bureaucrats and politicians know what YOU think about, what YOU have experienced in, and how much better we can make things for...
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The EU has a once-in-a-generation chance to deliver on a bold new measure with the potential to vastly improve life for scores of startup founders, operators and investors. But Europe risks Europe-ing itself out of the opportunity. https://t.co/a6MyrHoEAw
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Genuinely going insane. Can't count how many times i had to explain this to politicians: "No, it's not easier to update 27+ (semi-digital) government registries and introducing 27+ legal entities, instead of introducing a new clean modern digital one. Plus, it defeats the
EU-Inc is close to the finishing line (of the first stage) 🇪🇺 All the politicians in Brussel want "something like it". It's the #1 item on the commission's strategy. Now the hard part is to make sure the politicians have the ambition to get the details right. You can have the
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This is where its at! Have a quick read, reach out to us if you think you can help!
EU-Inc is close to the finishing line (of the first stage) 🇪🇺 All the politicians in Brussel want "something like it". It's the #1 item on the commission's strategy. Now the hard part is to make sure the politicians have the ambition to get the details right. You can have the
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EU-Inc is close to the finishing line (of the first stage) 🇪🇺 All the politicians in Brussel want "something like it". It's the #1 item on the commission's strategy. Now the hard part is to make sure the politicians have the ambition to get the details right. You can have the
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💯 A hundred days just passed since we submitted the 16,000 strong petition and the final blueprint for the 28th Regime to Commissioners @Michael McGrath and @Ekaterina Zaharieva. What happened since then ⬇️
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Oh yes, thanks for the write up @itsolelehmann! @euinc_petition FTW - LFG!
While the US produces unicorns weekly, Europe's founders drown in paperwork across 27 different countries. But 15,000+ tech leaders just forced the EU to finally address its biggest innovation killer. Why "EU Inc" could make Europe the world's most powerful startup ecosystem:
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This is what is needed, the EU-Inc is the infrastructure to make it happen. We need it fast, ambitious, api first, online first and above all things user centric with a top notch UX client of this (policy)-product are startups! https://t.co/hocFgitNhy for what we designed LFG!
proposal.eu-inc.org
This is a community workspace to create a policy proposal for the EU Inc. Our deadline for the handover to Brussels: January 15th
"LET'S BREAK THE CHAINS!" says President @vonderleyen as she calls European fragmentation unbearable. We agree! Fragmentation kills early stage momentum and makes scaling startups much harder. @vonderleyen: "Europe is the cradle of innovation". The EU inc will unlock this. 🚀
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LFG!
"LET'S BREAK THE CHAINS!" says President @vonderleyen as she calls European fragmentation unbearable. We agree! Fragmentation kills early stage momentum and makes scaling startups much harder. @vonderleyen: "Europe is the cradle of innovation". The EU inc will unlock this. 🚀
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We need EU Inc to make European companies independent of the US Delaware C corp and to usher in a renaissance of investing in European Startups. With Trump at the helm, this is becoming a strategic necessity for Europe. @euacchq @andreasklinger
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Our First Episode is up: PROXIMA FUSION – Europe's Most Ambitious Startup 🇪🇺✨ Every industry in the world will be redefined once we reach energy abundance – there is one company in Europe hell bent to make that happen as soon as possible. I went to visit them in their office
I am starting a new video series: "Europe's Most Ambitious Startup 🇪🇺" Who should I interview? Who is building crazy ambitious and exciting stuff and got the credibility to actually do it? The benchmark is: [if it works] fundamentally changes their industry. I will do this as
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Back in Brussels 🔥 Full day meeting with the comission and the EVP @HennaVirkkunen We’ll discuss topics like 28th regime / @euinc_petition and a few other topics. It will be a quite large meeting. They invited a lot of people. Seems like Brussels waking up. 👀
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“We all need and want it faster!” - thanks @michaelcogley!
What if a start-up could be formed, raise funds and distribute shares to its staff across Europe? @michaelcogley speaks with @SimonSchaefer, one of the entrepreneurs between the @euinc_petition, about the traction it is gaining in Brussels
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FYI Never liked the "MEGA" "Make Europe Great Again" brand. Never used/encouraged it. Long before Musk. Mainly b/c I never understood why Europe should copy US marketing, or import their bipolar obsession with culture wars Europe needs its own brands, stand on its own feet 🇪🇺
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EUROPE IS COMING BACK 🇪🇺 This September, Europe’s finest and most ambitious builders unite at a historic location in Berlin. Join us for a fresh dawn of European tech. All-in on Europe.
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Good morning Europe, Let's get to work… 1) As some of you already heard: the EU has confirmed that they are starting to work on a pan-european legal entity early 2025 🔥 2) Instead of waiting and hoping for the best. We want to frontrun this and – together with the whole
proposal.eu-inc.org
This is a community workspace to create a policy proposal for the EU Inc. Our deadline for the handover to Brussels: January 15th
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🔥 The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announces she wants to propose a so-called 28th regime for startups, aka an EU Inc. 💪 @vonderleyen wants to see innovative startups scale all across the huge single market of the EU! 🇪🇺🚀
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