Founders

The question of expanding to the US often comes up early, while the team is still raising seed capital and still arguing about product-market fit at home. What makes it…

Europe’s startup ecosystem has a stubborn funding problem. Women are building companies, but investment is still overwhelmingly flowing elsewhere. However, a 2026 study has shown that in 2025, all-female founding…

A founder I talked to last spring picked her dev shop the way most people pick a dentist: whoever answered the phone first. Eleven months and one very ugly rewrite…

Every few years, a new technology doesn’t just improve an industry—it completely changes the economics behind it. Exterior cleaning is having that moment right now, and the technology doing the…

Books are one of the quickest ways to compress years of startup experience into a few focused hours of reading. For founders, they can be especially useful because they offer…

Are you a startup founder planning to raise capital later this year? If so, the quieter summer weeks could be the right moment to prepare before investor conversations become urgent.…

Are you a healthtech or techbio startup looking to collaborate with pharmaceutical companies, sharpen your value proposition, and grow inside one of Europe’s strongest life sciences ecosystems? If that sounds…

If you’re already deep in the startup ecosystem, you know the playbook. These are familiar battlegrounds: product-market fit, scaling teams, refining go-to-market strategies. But when it comes to expanding into…

You’ve validated your idea. You know there’s a market. You’re ready to build your SaaS product. But here’s what nobody tells you: most SaaS products don’t fail because of bad…

Starting a company without proper legal foundations can lead to costly disputes, lost intellectual property, and operational paralysis. This guide compiles 15 critical legal mistakes that trip up first-time founders,…