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One of the much-celebrated advantages of being based in Silicon Valley is that there are so many investors around that you could bump into someone who can offer you a lucrative deal just by popping out to your local coffee shop. Few other places in the world have that luxury, but one VC firm is hoping to bring a taste of it to Central and Eastern Europe. Credo Venturesis planning to go ‘on tour’ during September, holding drop-in sessions in a number of Eastern European cities....

Investors are placing increasingly stringent conditions on funding for tech startups when it comes to recruitment of the right team. As the Wall Street Journal’s Venture Wirereports, if investors believe that startups don’t have what they consider to be a full team, or don’t have a plan in place to hire the right specific people, funding may be less forthcoming than it was in the past. Citing interviews with a range of VCs and angel investors, the report identifies a trend for investors to expect ‘rock star” developers – the top-flight engineers already being fought over by big names like Google and Facebook....

VCs need to make themselves accountable for founders’ mental wellbeing It’s in everybody’s best interest. Mental wellbeing as performance management As VCs it’s crucial that we start taking more responsibility for the founders whose startups we invest in. The founder is the single most important component of any startup, particularly at the early-stages. And although we’re used to putting all sorts of functional expertise in front of founders to help with product, marketing and finance, we rarely give much thought to how we can help them thrive on a personal level and to ensure they’re able to perform at their best – and support them at their lowest points....

Egypt is fast becoming one of the most promising arenas for innovative startups — with a growing community of young, tech-minded entrepreneurs, international investors are sitting up and taking notice. The country has one of the fastest-growing startup scenes in the MENA region and is becoming a global competitor. According toa report from Startup Genome, Egypt is in the top ten global ecosystems with affordable talentand has a total ecosystem value of $1....

TLDR:VDownloader lets users download and convert web videos from any of 10,000 video sharing sites in premium quality. Let’s make this clear right off the top — we’re not going to ask you why you need to download videos off the web. Maybe it’s for a work project, maybe it’s to save something for posterity, maybe you just want to watch it back later when you aren’t connected to the web....