Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 22, 2023
From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 17, 2023
Accelerators provide these teams with technical and business expertise and connect them to a network of other founders and advisors. Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe. But these look for founders who have a technical or business model insight and a team.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 1, 2020
From my consulting with entrepreneurs in Europe and other countries, I’m convinced that we all could benefit from adapting to meet their environments. With a singular focus on building unicorns, very rapid growth has been a key metric. Indeed these principles are good for all startups Connect ideas and networks from around the world.
VC Cafe
NOVEMBER 2, 2019
One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Investors look beyond top line metrics to assess other important factors. What should our MRR growth be?
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. It is always so cool to run marketing campaigns in large homogenous markets (like Europe, Asia, or large chunks of the US). I don't think it is simply a metrics/measurement problem.
Cracking the Code
MARCH 28, 2022
Back in 2016, Europe and Israel had only four public companies worth less than $9B combined and local cloud companies had raised just $900M throughout 2015. Today, Europe and Israel have generated 23 public companies worth $231B and private cloud financing reached c. Annualised, this would be 2.7x larger than last year!
Cracking the Code
AUGUST 3, 2011
In search of Europes next tech stars. A short interview on Bloomberg about where I see venture opportunities in Europe. Europe Consumer. (1). In search of Europe's next tech stars. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Feedburner Network. Paperblog network. Wednesday, August 03, 2011.
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