The Most Important Skills an Early-Stage Hire Should Have

When making early-stage hires, is it better they be skilled at one thing or be a jack-of-all-trades and why?
How to Build a Story with Slides

Very basic – read this article to guide you how to build a PowerPoint Presentation using Storytelling as your guidance. If your slides are telling a story, your work is just to now go and present it ✨
How to Value a Startup Company with No Revenue

If you want to make a deal with a commercial investor in exchange for ownership (=equity), you need to know the actual worth of your company.
Slicing Pie

If you’re looking for some inspiration how to tackle the ownership for your company – here is a useful guide to a different approach to dividing equity…
Seed, Series A, B, C, D and E Funding: How It Works

A very basic difference between startups and entrepreneurs is that entrepreneurs can run any type of new businesses vs startups who start risky, innovative businesses with the purpose to scale. In advanced countries startups for this reason often equate to tech-centric businesses…
The Founders Dilemma

Four out of five entrepreneurs are forced to step down from the CEO’s post. Most are shocked when investors insist that they relinquish control, and they’re pushed out of office in ways they don’t like and well before they want to abdicate. Just keeping things real!
Six Myths about Venture Capitalists

In case you need it: some demystification of the role Venture Capitalists play…
Doblin Ten Types of Innovation

Many entrepreneurs focus on product or technological innovation, but innovation is much broader. Doblin’s Ten Types of Innovation explores additional innovations from product and service offerings to customer experience to business model innovation.