“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’...
A practical framework to identify key people, assess risks, and decide what to do next. Founders spend most of their time finding market fit, checking out competitors, hiring, fundraising, attending board meetings and analyzing financials and projections. In CEE markets, where startups and scaleups are founder heavy, one type of...
What if your startup’s next major milestone didn’t require raising another round, but signing your first serious client? Across the world, founders are often trained to think in fundraising cycles. From pre-seed to seed to Series A, everything is framed around equity capital. But in today’s...
