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Another day, another new incubator coming out of Germany (in fact, it feels like the whole of Europe has gone a little incubator crazy of late): German Startups Group is a new fund set up by Christoph Gerlinger and Alexander Kölpin, both of whom look well-placed to tap the local 'digital' startup scene in Berlin with investments of between €50k and €250k, although it isn't ruling out applications from further afield.

Bereits existierende Startups, die auch schon ein fertiges Produkt vorweisen können oder konnten, wenden sich an die "Crowd", um sich die erforderlichen Mittel für den nächsten Expansionsschritt zu sichern. Gestern benachrichtigten uns gleich zwei junge Webfirmen aus Deutschland, über die wir in der Vergangenheit bei netzwertig.com berichtetet haben, über entsprechende Kampagnen: swabr und Farfromhomepage.

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Lost in both of these dimensions is precisely what drives economic growth in most of the world: entrepreneurship, and the efforts of individuals to take their futures into their own hands and create something new. The emerging field of expeditionary economics seeks to reorient international development toward the promotion and support of entrepreneurship.

The secondary markets "have added public liquidity to a marketplace that had virtually none," says William Hambrecht, chairman of WR Hambrecht and a longtime Valley financier. Then there are the prophets of doom, the Silicon Valley veterans who ominously observe that the secondary markets are messing with the rules of the country's entrepreneurial engine.