There is a theory we hear a lot these days: AI will make many more people entrepreneurs. I hope that is true. As a venture investor, I obviously want more people to start companies. More importantly, I think many more people can start companies now. The tools are better, the Read more…
For the last two decades, the default answer to every business problem was: buy another specialized cloud tool. CRM for sales, helpdesk for support, HRIS for people, BI for reporting. Something for procurement, planning, workflow automation, contract management, and then some integration layer like Zapier to pull the pieces together Read more…
Here we go again: Another fight for platform dominance. This time it’s of course about winning in the AI race. Anthropic’s launch of Claude Managed Agents this week is the clearest signal yet that the AI market has entered a new phase. This is not just another model release. It Read more…
The AI industry currently produces new startups in something that is probably best described as a Cambrian explosion. We have seen this frantic pace of company creation before in other technology waves, such as the dot-com boom of the late 90s and the SaaS boom of the early 2010s. Nobody Read more…
The software industry is a very dynamic environment. According to some estimates, there are currently over 27,000 active SaaS companies, and the number keeps growing. With all this activity, it’s easy to forget that the current business model of software as a service is already the third fundamentally different way Read more…
Tech startups are not exactly known as bastions of sane work-life balance. Startup jobs have a reputation of requiring very long work hours, and many role models elevate this picture: Elon Musk supposedly works 120 hours a week. Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey by comparison slacks off with just Read more…
The world of entrepreneurship is full of buzzwords. We all want to found the next disruptive game-changing hot startup, leveraging our first-mover advantage in deep tech by thinking outside the box, just before pivoting (in an agile way!) after our A/B tests showed concerns with our UX and product market Read more…
«How are you different?» — It’s probably the question startup founders hear most frequently. Customers, investors, employees, journalists – they all want to know why they should care about your startup in particular out of the countless other ones out there. Having a good answer to this fundamental question is Read more…
The last forty years have been a spectacular period for technology entrepreneurship. A rapid succession of fundamental technologies from the personal computer to the world wide web to smartphones (and their many underlying layers of enabling technologies) have produced a cornucopia of entrepreneurial opportunity. Today, the five most valuable companies Read more…