My presentation at the Festival d'Europa, in Firenze - Italy, on the "Startup Revoluion" which is an extreme necessity in Europe!

1. The State of the Union Festival d’Europa Firenze, Italia May 10 th 2011

2. Turning Europe Young Again: The “Startup Revolution” Dimitris Tsigos President YES – European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs

5. Who is gonna create the necessary economic dynamism? The Youth of Europe!

6. How?

7. Very simple. By starting-up! Startups are creating new jobs! “ Employment Boost: 83% of U.S. Startups Plan To Hire in 2011” http ://mashable.com/2011/04/22/startup-outlook/

9. Has the World realized the necessity to start-up?

14. What about the StartupEurope initiative? We all look forward to it! Let’s do it!

17. Why to Start-up? “ The mission of a company is to maximize shareholders value” … as well as to get very high bonuses!

18. Sorry, not any more. This model (thank God!) collapsed together with Lehman Brothers Not sure that everybody has realized this fact.

20. What’s the new key-word? Sustainability ! We need to push for the “ecosystem approach” in European start-ups

22. If you’re afraid of failing… … then you simply don’t try!

24. So, is there a crisis after all? Yes, but it’s not financial. The crisis is political. The solution can only be political!

25. What about Europe? No, the end of the world is not coming.

27. The time to get Europe truly united is coming!

28. Thank you 