🌊 What Early Apple Teaches Founders About Culture, Speed, and Thinking Big

Early Apple lessons, Idealista crushed it, splash some cash in France, the top entrepreneurship podcasts in Spain, a list of recently funded startup jobs and more!

I’m Ivan Landabaso, VC at JME.vc. I also love surfing and combat sports. Welcome to Startup Riders, your bi-weekly startup caffeine.

Summary | TL;DR

• 🎙️The Rise of Silicon Valley: Lessons from an early Apple veteran.

• 👏 Idealista Smashes It: An inflection point for Spain’s startup ecosystem?

• 🇫🇷 The French Splash Some Cash: A lifeline for startups during Covid.

• 🎧 Spanish Startup Podcasts: A database, based on your votes.

• 💵 Recent Deals: Capchase, Iomed, Adtuo, Algenex, Inbestme and more.

• 🦄 Startup Jobs: A list of startup jobs from recently funded Spanish companies.

• 💭Thinking or Reading: Bill Gates’ favorite book, deadlines not to miss & more.

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