Definitions of terms At EGV, we believe in Focus and Intensity. Focus is when you do one single thing. Intensity is when you do it sixteen hours a day. When working with early-stage founders, we try to help them get Perspective and Clarity. Perspective is rapport: with the market, with the competition, with the industry, and so on. Clarity is (self)awareness. Our…
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…
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…
The fair way to handle your payroll in times of crisis. Making decisions that impact the lives of your co-founders and your employees is not easy. But, as CEO of an early-stage startup, you have no one to look up to and no one to hide behind. When winter is coming, you are the only…
Reasonable predictions and unreasonable hopes for Romanian startups. I should say this from the very beginning: I have wild expectations for 2020. Money from investors will flow, advisors will advise left and right, founders will start throngs of startups, and valuations will inflate by the hour. But we’re in the late stages of a bubble….
