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Recruiting a Senior Associate
19/03/2012 - 18:25

Do you want to join a fast growing Growth Equity firm?  Do you have a strong analytical background, honed in a top tier banking or consulting firm, great academics including an MBA, a passion for technology and entrepreurship and, wait for it, fluency in any one of German, Swedish, or a Central European language?  If so, let us know by emailing your resume and a cover letter to elizabeth.driscoll@fil.com.  We are building our team so we can find more great companies to back all over Europe.  If this is for you, please let us know.

 

Simon

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Winning in America – a primer for European startups
07/10/2011 - 11:18

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Why We Heart Nordics
29/09/2011 - 15:51

On a day when a massive round of layoffs at Nokia has just been announced, we think it's appropriate to lay out the case for our commitment to investments in the Nordic region. 

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IT-driven Cleantech: Picking up Twenties
26/05/2011 - 12:40

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Welcome to the new Fidelity Growth Partners Europe website
08/04/2011 - 15:53

A lot has changed for us in the past 15 months. Fidelity created its very first European focused venture/growth fund. 3 new investment team members and 2 operational team members have been added. We've made our first investments in the new fund, including the first in Germany, the first gaming company, and the first originating in Eastern Europe.

One thing hadn't changed much at all: our website remained largely the same as from the previous transatlantic team. 

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European copy cats
23/03/2011 - 18:28

By Davor Hebel, Principal at Fidelity Growth Partners Europe

The European entrepreneurial community often comes under fire for being prone to copying successful ideas from the US and importing them over here.  Unimaginative, unambitious and unethical are just some of the words used by critics to describe this approach.  However, I believe that these ‘copy cats’ can create a huge amount of value and often transform the markets in which they operate.  This is because it is not just the idea - but the execution of that idea - that creates a unique proposition and often redefines how a problem is solved. 

European entrepreneurs should not be shy about creating ‘copy cat’ businesses – but they should strive to make them into innovative, global success stories that can be even more successful than the original.

The concept of ‘copy catting’ has been lucrative for the likes of well-regarded repeat entrepreneurs, the Samwer brothers.  They have perfected the craft and created a fortune by building a number of clones including Alando (clone of Ebay), Jamba (clone of NTT DoKoMo), Zalando (clone of Zappos), and CityDeal (clone and now acquired by Groupon). 

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