Starting a new business includes a lot of challenges, from building a valuable product, finding opportunities to monetize, and also making people find, understand, and use it. To that end, a strong understanding of marketing is required. That led the High-Tech Seedlab Team to organize a marketing week with workshops on the main topics in…
What makes you a successful entrepreneur? In this essay we explore what we think might be a key skill for success for early-stage founders.
Regenerative Capitalism to Replace Deformed Predatory Capitalism The venture capital industry is deforming capitalism in many parts of the world, prioritizing returns from proven business models, when more often than not, more long-term patient capital is needed. Regenerative capitalism on the other hand is emerging as a counterweight that rewards green swans, or in other…
Relationship between fundraising and valuations in EU countries Investors in Europe typically expect your valuation to be about 3–4x new funds raised, and that your next round should be roughly 5x more than your previous one. But where’s the starting point? If your valuation is a function or multiple of how much you managed to…
The High-Tech SeedLab supports early-stage high-tech ventures to successfully launch products and effectively manage their businesses. Within our 10-month acceleration program, participants not only receive a monthly stipend and access to coworking space but they also benefit from tailor-made coaching sessions as well as workshops. One of the most in-demand workshop topics by our participants…
In Germany, 9 out of 10 startups are negatively affected by the economic impact of the corona crisis. Even though shops have reopened everywhere in the country and contact restrictions will most likely be lifted in early June, consumer demand is unlikely to immediately bounce back to pre-crisis levels. At the same time, global supply…
Today, the very same platforms and communication apps used by dissidents in the Arab Spring, protestors in Hong Kong, and ordinary folk to chat and organize — like Twitter, or Telegram — can also be employed by those with destructive agendas. This — the pervasive use of digital technologies, and the growing power of the…
A central part of the tech startup lifestyle is wearing many hats. On a given day you might shift between marketing, product development, research, or kitchen cleaner — and no position in a startup characterizes this dynamic more than the CEO, or the corporate leader by another name. The heads of big tech firms today…
In December, we’ll be holding our annual demo day to show off what our startups have been getting up to. So we thought we’d write up a post in the spirit of demo days, and note down 5 of the biggest issues to avoid for the right pitch. 1. Speed The first, and most…
Three months after the launch of the AtomLeap High-tech Accelerator Batch 03, our two teams met at the Q-Club Berlin (Deutsche Bank Quartier Zukunft) in late April. The meeting served as a platform for everyone involved in the program to interact and exchange experiences gained so far. We also took part in an interesting roundtable…