Photo by Xiaolong Wong on Unsplash I noticed something while watching founders pitch their early-stage startups: when raising their first investment round, the founders “sell” themselves as the main assets of the new venture. Everything revolves around their previous experience, their educational background, their many talents, and skills. It’s everything about them — probably it’s only normal as…
Dissecting the startup pitch deck slide by slide This article is part of a series dissecting the startup pitch deck slide by slide, in no particular order. The intent is to help founders create brief, relevant, and well-structured presentations for their ventures. Read our other article about what NOT to include in the competition…
A behind-the-scenes look at the worst investment term sheet clauses Through my years of experience as a tech entrepreneur (then as a VC), I’ve come across tens of different investment term sheet clauses. Most are straight common-sense and quite to the point – you can’t deny their benefits or their fairness. But there are also…
Questo – a travel quest-dedicated digital distribution service Everything is a story: the history of the world, the news on TV, the jokes we laugh at, the memories we have. Our whole life is a story of adventure and every trip we take is one just as well. The human mind needs stories to make…
Infrastructure for Events and Conferences. EGV recently announced the investment in InstantSpace, an online event booking platform for corporate events management. Here is what sparked out interest and convinced us to invest. Organizing conferences or corporate events has never been an easy task. It usually takes months of preparations to book the venue, the speakers, syncing…
In the last few years, the complexity of cybersecurity threats has been on the rise. All analyses point to it increasing even more in the future. Clients of all sizes, small and medium enterprises especially, need solutions that are both effective and simple to use, to manage, and to understand. The complexity of the problem…
This article is part of a series dissecting the startup pitch deck slide by slide, in no particular order. The intent is to help founders create brief, relevant, and well-structured presentations for their ventures. The competition slide is a key component of any startup deck. Surprisingly, this slide actually tells us more about the startup…
Mixed feelings in Startupland Our society seems to be split at this moment, with the general sentiment swinging from one extreme to the other: from unsubstantiated optimism to irrational pessimism. A behavior that increases the confusion we all swim in. On the one hand, the media started to obsessively talk about an economic crisis. Nothing…
