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8 Strategies To Capitalize On Untapped Global Markets

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

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8 Keys To Real Innovation Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Build for sustainability and resilience, as well as growth.

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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Today there are around 720+ venture studios across the world – half are in Europe. In both North America and Europe, many venture studios in non-major cities are funded by government agencies to stimulate local growth, at times with matching donations from companies.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . Always seek input. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Further Reading.

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Startup Benchmarks

VC Cafe

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?

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EU Cookie / Privacy Laws: Implications On Data Collection And Analysis

Occam's Razor

Though Europe is our primary focus, regardless of where you are located you'll learn about web privacy, data collection, optimal tool decisions and how best to plan your data strategy. Broadly speaking, there seem to be four buckets of implementation currently underway in Europe when it comes to the cookie part of the law.

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

In the UK, by far the largest tech hub in Europe, startups raised $26 billion. Europe: $100 billion ??India: R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP – Israel ranks 2nd globally in this metric, following closely after South Korea. In the US alone, startups raised $330 billion. US: $330 billion ??China: China: $104.4

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