From Pieter Welten - Prime Ventures (@pieterwelten)
All too often I find friends, family and entrepreneurs overestimating the size of a market when we are discussing the next big thing. I can’t blame them; I very much like their opportunism. Moreover, large companies including Tesla and Coca-Cola seem to overestimate the size of markets now and...
From Mathijs de Wit – Newion Investments (@mathijsdewit)
Do you know that feeling when everything comes together and works out perfectly nice? That feeling can best be compared to how it feels when a company hits its market window exactly right. As a result, companies thrive and risky VC investments turn into high valued financial assets....
From Nick Kalliagkopoulos - Prime Ventures (@kalliagk)
There is a lot of hype on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Gartner placed Machine Learning on top of its Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies in 2016, while at the same time forecasting only 2-5 years to mainstream adoption. As a field it is not that new. It was firstly described in a paper of...
From Olivier Verhage - Kennet Partners (@olivierverhage)
In one of my previous blogs I discussed what every entrepreneur needs to know about how revenue growth translates into pricing and deal valuation for a typical SaaS business. Fast forward, you’ve decided that your business is worth 5x ARR, is there another important thing that matters...
From Pieter Welten - Prime Ventures (@PieterWelten)
The vast majority of us are familiar with companies like Handy, Deliveroo, Postmates, Instacart and Uber. They run multisided platforms in which on one side there are people that need a job done and on the other side there are people who want to do that job. These companies don’t employ their...