Venture

In an analogy to the venture capital firms becoming too big, unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you want to look at it, our venture data backlog for this section is getting too big, and there is too little time to organize & optimize it…

So do please do drop us a line to the Suggestion Box should you have particular requests or questions:

VC what?

101

The basics of a VC

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How to Pitch

10/20/30

Guy’s rule of pitching

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What to Pitch?

101

The basics of a deal

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Pitch Examples

101

A cool collection over time

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Simple Deal

101

Simple agreement for future equity (Safe)

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Term Sheet & Valuation

101

The basics of a deal

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Intellectual Property

101

The basics of startup IP

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Startup Library

A selection of startup advice

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Going to the geographic origins for starters…

 

VC Economics

A top view on its own basics

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VC VCs

Early investment & product-market-fit

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Accelerator VCs

An original view on early investment

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Angel VCs

A busiest early investor’s view

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Accelerator Landscape

Survey and directory of global accelerators

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Accelerator Cases

A selection of case study how to guides

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Venture Monitor

US is the cradle of VC so all eyes are always there

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Industry Monitor

Best graphical research in the business, and some insight on tech industries you have never heard of!

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VC Trends & Stats

An academic resource collection

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Global VC Trends

Another big4 in the digital space looking at VC trends

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Venture Equity vs. Debt

Venture debt as an underutilized alternative to VC

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Revenue-based Funding

Another alternative to plain-vanilla VC

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VC Blogs

A large selection of blogs on medium

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Tiger-based VC Model

Winning by the numbers, non-hands-on

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Stratup Ecosystems

A selection of client-survey-driven insights startup ecosystem reports..

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ESOP Indicator

24 country ranking..

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Ivy Library

The Consortium Announces Addition of Stanford Graduate ...

Venture Capital and Private Equity

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Other Stuff

A vitrine from the original association..

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Online Fast Fashion

An Online Fast Fashion Retailer is Named The Most Successful Startup of the Decade

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Becoming $1bil?

1 in a 100 odds do not sound so bad.!?

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Where is What?

Startup Ecosystem: Fundraising Market Map

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Europe’s VC scene is getting there…

 

European VC Landscape

It wouldn’t happen without Europe’s largest VC fund LP, and by some measure world’s largest as well

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State of European Tech

Commercial cross-promotion by 20 companies & organizations brings together some additional insights

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CEE Technology Fastest

Annual ranking of CEE’s fastest growing companies is a rather popular regional affair

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Watch Startups in CEE

Google bloggers also think there is potential in CEE

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CEE Innovation

The EIB regional economic studies

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CEE Startups

Coming of age…

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Western Balkans

Innovation in the WB by the WB

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Cluster VCs

Actually, only two institutional VC funds covering Croatia are both run by ‘Slovenians’

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Cluster Angels

A few, for example in Croatia still looking for a successful exit story

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EU Wage Comparison

A competitive advantage for the Balkans given a relatively strong legacy engineering educational infrastructure…

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EU Comm Costs

Again a competitive advantage for the CEE probably due to more recent telecom infrastructure investments…

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EU R&D Staff

How many heads..?

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EU R&D Expenditure

How much spend..?

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ICT Staff

CEE growing tech-heads..

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Sci-tech Publishing

How many articles..?

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Unlike the Balkans, MENA’s VC scene has been there for a while…

 

MENA Unicorns

MENA Unicorn Hunters: Here Are The Investors Backing The Most $1B+ Startups

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MENA Most Funded

The region’s 50 most funded startups in 2020 have raised $1 billion in combined total funding

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Cluster VCs

  

MENA Ecosystem

Some cluster data assembled..

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And finally some associations & guidelines as required reading for EMerging MAnagers in EMerging MArkets (2EMMA):

 

Valuation

Useful, in particular for regulated funds

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Reporting

Again in particular for regulated funds

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VC Toolkit

Guides for the new GP seeking an LP

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Emerging VC

Another prominent LP association

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Angel Group

How to guide to creating one

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Angel Groups

Global association directory

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US Big Tech

Welcome to neo-feudalism.!?

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Internal Tech Emails

Collection of big tech internal emails

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