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Startup Kitchen Talks — 68 episodes

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#67: Předvolební debata "Praha Inovační"

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#66: Miro Hachlinec (Budovan) and Beata Vörösová (Seed Starter ČS) about AI moving to the physical world, Hardware and Airports

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#65: Domi Prekopova from Startup Kitchen about MARC Impact Program, ERSTE Foundation, Impact investing and the next cohort

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#64: Tom Zrubecky from Talentpilot about the future of hiring, Talent acquisition and AI Agents

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#63: ICT Technology Transfer Days; From Pitch to Partnership: What Start-ups Should Know About Engaging Investors, Panel Discussion

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#62: ICT Technology Transfer Days; Inside the Investor’s Mind, Emerging Trends and Decision Drivers by Vojta Roček from Presto Ventures

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#61: Richard Valtr from MEWS on being the most Valuable Czech Startup, Pep Guardiola or Film producing

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#60: Andrew Peirson from iO Partners about Corner Offices, living in Prague or the evolution of city development

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#59: Simon McDermott from TalentPilot about Hunting (like Job Hunting), Ireland and Prague

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#58: Josef Starychfojtu from MEWS about tech people, being cocky and pleasing people

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#57: TECHHAPPYHOURS & Today's Importance of Dual Use Technologies on Battlefield

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#56: TECHHAPPYHOURS & YEMI A.D. to the Moon!

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#55: TECHHAPPYHOURS & are 250 Startups enough to save the Czech Economy? (in CZE)

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#54: TECHHAPPYHOURS & Space for Innovation

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#53: TECHHAPPYHOURS & Lifecycle of a Startup to its Exit

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#52: TECHHAPPYHOURS & 28th Regime and what's next Europe?

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#51: Megi Mejdrechova from Robotwin about Universities, scaling and teaching robots what to do

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#50: Eliska Vamosova about ENGAGED Investment Conferece, Depo Ventures, or Thailand

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#49: Startup Cinema: What Can Startups Learn from Space Crises?

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#48: Marek Aldorf from OSN on Emerging markets, the continent of Africa, and washing machines in Bangladesh

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#47: William Jalloul from Flowpay about building a FinTech, Unicorns and Legacy

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#46: Honza Jirousek from Dronetag about the future of drones, origins of the company and Hardware

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#45: Podnikatelé & Politici; Startupová předvolební debata 2025

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#44: Stefan Surina from Eldison about expansion to US, building a tech law firm and a bowl of rice

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#43: Yassaman Omidbakhsh from Eyerim about bulding an optic glasses business, leaving Iran and working abroad

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#42: InnoVEX, Taipei 2025 Global Demo Day: Czech Pavilion organised by CzechInvest and Startup Kitchen

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#41: Marketa Uhrova on accelerating super early projects, supporting from the very beginning and 15th wave of acceleration

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#40: Kinga Matula from battling cancer to landing Tim Draper as investor

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#39: Linn Kretzschmar, CERN Venture Connect Programme Lead about DeepTech, Atlas, Universities and Startups

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#38: Paweł Michalski (VC Leaders) about Climate, Fundraising or solo GPs

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#37: Jess Burley from Planet A Ventures in SLUSH Special about Climate Hardware Scaling Playbook, from FOAK to NOAK

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#36: Ondrej Zemek about Expanding to US, Grown Up Venture Capital field and Spiders

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#35: Ory Weihs, founder turned investor in heavy weights like Mews, Medorion, 4Trans, Legly, Scaut, Bridgify and more

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#34: Ryan Grant Little about two successful Exits, Charity work and ClimateTech

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#33: O DeepTechu se Sárou Polak, Petrem Ulvrem z Tensor Ventures a Janem Romportlem z Elin.ai na plzeňském BIC BEAT

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#32: Marvin Liao, Jan Krahulik and Kate Syslová revisiting ENGAGED Investment Conference

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#31: Jaroslav Horvath o inovacích uvnitř Raiffeisenbank, písmenkové polívce a bance budoucnosti

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#30: Terez Macháčková about Talent Management, Navigating Humor and Radical Candor

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#29: TRUESDAY Special Edition <> Thea Prokop and Lukas Zdarsky on fleeting hypes and lasting trends

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#28: Startup Cinema & Cooking The Books with Wirecard

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#27: Jaroslav Baier z Havel & Partners o Cap Tablech, jménech právních kanceláří a AI

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#26: Vijay Nerva from Bobcat about Diggers, Innovations and a real-world GTA

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#25: Hyun Park about Startup Advisors, scale-ups, NOKIA and Education

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#24: Cristobal Alonso about Startup Wise Gyus, Red Color, Global Accelerator and Divorce Rate

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#23: Venture Capital a investice do startupů v rámci BIC Beat vol. 3

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#22: Hanah Lahe (Riigikogu), the Youngest MP about Making an Impact and fighting the Climate Crisis

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#21: Linda Voreas (KARMA VC) on how education can also be deep tech and how advancing defence should be called "innovating peace"

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#20: Alain Wildanger & Laurent Hengesch (IVC) about Gin, Pre-seed to series C/D and Luxembourgh

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#19: TRUESDAYS Special Edition <> StartupJobs hosts Lucie Brešová⁠ (Groupon), ⁠Marek Vašíček⁠ (FTMO) and ⁠Vratislav Kalenda⁠ (Applifting)

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#18: Karolina Mrozkova from Credo Ventures about Runways, Trans-Atlantic journey and the principle of “survival of the fittest”

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#17: Harvey Ma, founder at Aedge Ventures, about sneakerhead, 1st step when scaling to APAC or common mistakes EU / USA startups do when scaling to Asia

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#16: Zoe Reich (Octopus Ventures) and 50M DeepTech fund, her own exit, volcanology and mountain climbing

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#15: Marvin Liao (Diaspora Ventures) and Jan Krahulík (DEPO Ventures) about CEE startups still aspiring for the “big fish in a small pond”

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#14: Technology Incubation and Czechinvest (Matous Kostlivy) helping Czech startups, represented by Tolgee (Jan Cizmar)

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#13: Startup Cinema & Theranos: Blood, Money and Ego Event

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#12: Peter Lasinger (3VC) about managing the largest Series A-focused fund in Austria, multinational team and beer.

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#11: Adam Kocik about the Perfect-looking Investment, NYC Subway and Hyped Investors

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#10: Kristýna Minářová o startupech v korporátech, oxymorónech, štikách i převodovkách

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#9: Ondrej Bartos (2nd Part) about VC sheeps, deceptive founders, and better to burn out (than to fade away)

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#8: Ondrej Bartos (1st Part) about Unicorn–Kentaurs, hypes, and the dark side of startup incentives

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#7: Lucie Bresova about Scaling Tech Startups, TravelTech and Eating Healthy

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#6: Michael Schuster about managing multi-million dollar Speedinvest and Eating Bulls balls

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#5: Hanka Kucerova and Building Opero as a Girl Scout and Eating Spiders

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#4: Frank Salzgeber and Why We Need More Space

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#3: Katherine Maher on The Modern Age of Information

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#2: Esther Wojcicki on The Future of Education

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#1: Guy Kawasaki on Art of Innovation

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