- Unicorns Report: a closer look at 3 profitable Unicorns 12 Jun 2019 Strategy, Trends - Last month - May 2019 - 13 companies were valued over $1bn for the first time. By the way, none of them was profitable. That doesn't sound rare at all!
- Strap your Boots: 10 Bootstrapped Success Stories 29 May 2019 Fundraising, Strategy - We collected 10 exemplar bootstrapped companies that successfully employed different strategies to achieve impressive exits, sky-high valuations and more-than-healthy profit margins while retaining most of their Founders' ownership.
- What a VC learnt from the 600 start-ups he said “NO!” to 13 May 2019 Investment, Strategy - VC portfolios are often too small to make accurate links between metrics and performance. What if they used companies they rejected as a dataset instead? This VC studied 600 start-ups he said "no" to and found some interesting connections.
- Tired of pitch decks & meetings? Meet Capital-as-a-Service 18 Apr 2019 Strategy, Tech - Their premise is simple: once you're able to categorise a company together with others with a comparable business model, you can use key metrics to compare performance and evaluate the profitability of an investment.
- Accelerator or Incubator – What’s the difference? 29 Mar 2019 Strategy - Start-up Incubators and Accelerators often assume similar roles in the early stages of a company. However there are several differences between the two.
- Do Start-up Accelerators really Accelerate Start-ups? 11 Mar 2019 Strategy - There are over 130 active startup accelerators in the UK. They have been increasing for the past 5 years, but what is their real impact on a firms's growth?