The venture capital model is under fire again. Founders complain about dilution and loss of control. Commentators question whether VCs create real value or just inflate valuations. Aspiring entrepreneurs wonder if bootstrapping isn’t the more honest path after all.
I’ve heard these criticisms for years — as a founder,...
The Central and Eastern European (CEE) has grown remarkably over the past decade, yet despite this, the region’s startup ecosystem remains constrained. And the bottleneck is not a lack of capital, nor is it simply a matter of political risk or market size, as people sometimes assume…
The CEE...
“People often ask how I got into VC straight out of college. Truth is, it’s rare — funds often prioritize immediate execution over mentoring their talent,” tweeted Tunya Irkad last summer. Now Principal of e2vc, managing a fund about €70 million that invests in startups across Central & Eastern Europe,...
Look up to the sky — we’re a miracle living on one of the millions of other pebbles in the universe. Since forever, it has been the destiny of humankind to explore the frontier – and today’s frontier is space. After millennia of civilization, we finally boosted out of Earth’...
