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Video dates are here to stay

✌️How top founders manage spend ✌️

If you want to thrive – not just survive – it’s never been more critical to spend smart.

Find out how 250 of Europe’s top founders keep their startups on track.

 Download the Spending Playbook. [Sponsored post]

 Fintech 

European fintech: where are the women?

👩‍🚀 Calling all startup pioneers 👩‍🚀

It's out with the old and in with the new. The European startup ecosystem is experiencing immense change and will perhaps continue to do so for many years.

But which people and companies do you think will lead us forward, driving innovation and fostering positive change for society going forward?

Nominate someone here.

 Fintech 

The short story of failed digital bank Bó

 Greentech 

European greentech startups: unite!

💡 5 tips to help banks innovate during a crisis 💡

Should banks still be innovating during a crisis? Yes, says Nikolai Hack of Nucoro; the secret is thinking small but strategic.

5 tips to innovate in a crisis. [Sponsored]

Sifted Suggests 

⏬ US startups are firing employees during the coronavirus crisis, and being pretty open about it. But European startups are avoiding the topic. Do they have their head buried in the sand? asks Roxanne Varza at Station F.

👍 68 bits of unsolicited advice from Kevin Kelly, "senior maverick" at Wired. Here is a pertinent one: "When crisis and disaster strike, don’t waste them. No problems, no progress."

💰 Why venture capital can't bail out startups during the coronavirus crisis, from Axios. In short, VCs have their own problems and their own investors to answer to.

🔑 How startups should think about capital efficiency, from David Sacks. How do you measure it? And what can founders do about it?

Events (digital only!)
 

🌐 EIT Digital Challenge 2020 | International growth support worth €350,000 for deep tech scaleups
Are you ready to scale up? EIT Digital is helping tech startups grow. Find out more and apply. [Sponsored post] 

🇬🇧 Lockdown Unlocked | 5 May
A full morning of panels and discussions — including a debate between Brent Hoberman and Robin Klein about the role VCs and the state play in supporting startups during a crisis. Don't miss that showdown. 

🇬🇧 Government support for startups | 6 May
The UK minister for digital and culture, Caroline Dinenage, will talk about the government’s £1.25bn package to help startups access cash during the coronavirus crisis.

🇬🇧 How have diversity efforts been impacted by the crisis? | 6 May
Capital Enterprise brings together a panel including Izzy Obeng from Foundervine and Check Warner from Ada Ventures to discuss the diversity agenda during Covid-19.

🇬🇧 BritainThinks and Doteveryone | 12 May
Launch of People, Power and Technology: The 2020 Digital Attitudes Report.

🇮🇪 What The Hack | 30 May 
The #HackBack hackathon will help support SMEs and startups during the Covid-19 crisis recovery.