There is a well-known set of rules on how to make a good Elevator Pitch, which mostly focus on four aspects of form and content: Be brief (your audience’s time is limited) Be clear and direct (your son and grandmother should get it) Underline the growth potential and market size (and make it big!) And […]
European Startups: Hiring for growth
When you are involved in the European early-stage ecosystem, it is quite clear that the major issue we are facing is the very low percentage of startups that become scaleups (let alone unicorns… see Graph 1 vs. Graph 2). The reasons are numerous (financing ecosystem, risk adversity of entrepreneurs and investors, market size and/or legal environment, […]
The Key to a Successful Entrepreneurial Team
William Hewlett and David Packard, who I have had the honor of meeting personally, were two very different people who together created an amazing company called Hewlett-Packard. The two made up an entrepreneurial team: a group of entrepreneurs who together launch a new enterprise intelligently combining their capabilities. This is a situation that is becoming […]
Out of the Building and into the Web: Technology Entrepreneurship and Crowdfunding
The Case for Crowdfunding …
How long will the entrepreneur fad last?
In the last ten years, entrepreneurs have become extraordinarily popular. Politicians, journalists and business people all want to be associated with the idea of entrepreneurship. Official programs have been created to help entrepreneurs and the weekend newspaper invariably contains a special supplement on entrepreneurship. All universities and business associations organize events so that entrepreneurs can […]