d/s Is After A Multi-Billion Dollar Market

d/s or DesignStory pitches itself as an "online community for design loving people". DesignStory is going after the huge private sales market that has emerged globally in the recent years. DesignStory is a US-Finland based company. The main company is in the US, while a sister company, has been established in Finland. Currently there are quite a few people working with the company, but the founders Mia Lewin and Inka Mero, are the driving forces behind the company.

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Where To Build Your Startup: Differences Between VC Firms (Video)

raising moneyDuring our trip to the Silicon Valley we aimed to meet people who have experience from the Northern Europe on one hand, and from the Silicon Valley on the other to get the bottom of the differences between the two places .

Especially we wanted to know what their advice would be for the aspiring young startups that try to figure out whether it's worth to relocate to the Silicon Valley from Nordic or Baltic countries, or whether the whole Silicon Valley hype is just hot air and Northern Europe is just as good a location to build a startup as any.

Here Mia Lewin, a Finn, a former VC and an entrepreneur, talks about the differences between VC firms between Europe and the Silicon Valley, how to figure out where to locate and how Mia herself plans to build her startup and raise funding. See the video below.

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