Reinvesting your capital
A big part of Silicon Valley’s success as a startup ecosystem can be linked to a continuous recycling of capital: entrepreneurs who made made money selling their company become angels, angel investors and VCs take profits from one deal and invest those in more deals. With tech ecosystems getting more and more important in places outside of […]
Hiring for startups 101 – new blog series
How to hire for your startup is one of the most crucial (if not the crucial) tasks for any startup founder but rarely gets the attention it deserves from bloggers. There are probably more posts a day on how to pitch your company than about best practices for hiring for your company in a month. […]
“Tell me who your friends (advisors, employees,…) are and I will tell you who you are”….
“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are” is an old saying that has some real truth to it – but it is not only valid for your private life but might also be a very useful guideline for professional situations. Interpret it in the broadest possible sense and […]
Demo Day
Today is GrowLab‘s first demo day with the 5 companies from the first cohort showing to over 50 investors what they have worked on since mid August. I am incredibly proud of all of the teams – they worked very, very hard for this moment and I have no doubt that all of them will […]
Inspiring a new generation of entrepreneurs – RIP Steve Jobs
We have not truly celebrated entrepreneurs since the generation of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison – entrepreneurs got respect, awards, sometimes biographies but never the attention of top athletes or celebrities. Steve Jobs has changed this – he became a mass media phenomenon with a deep impact beyond the technology circles. I hope that many […]