This experience is either scarce or not present in most European startup networks. Increasing risks by not knowing what are the practices that others have used in the same situation is wrong and not value optimising for entrepreneurs. A startup already has an incredible number of risks. Outlining the philosophy of several company stages, and specific challenges and opportunities connected to all of them.Īnd it makes you think. In the last Stanford class about blitzscaling, Reid Hoffman and John Lilly do an egregious job in showing and discussing the heuristics around startup scaling.
Low returns caused by obstacles to blitzscaling As a consequence, probably low investments are motivated by low returns. That is when a small investment can lead to great returns and that is why, in my opinion, we should see more transatlantic activity at an early stage. The large return opportunities reside however in early stage investments. And are going to pass by their gates at some point. However the majority of these players are in the end motivated by returns, and a big part of the motivation for not expanding to Europe is that these returns are not worth the effort.Īnd in the end, companies that truly scale are going to get the US market as well. Several investors want to invest in things that they know, in companies they can drive to or fly to in a day, and that is understandable. Despite the stronger attention that Europe is getting from overseas, there are still no strong interests in transferring operations in Europe and increase their presence in the motherland. This is the picture left by the talks at TechCrunch Disrupt London last Monday by a panel of SV VCs. ‘All told did not a strong impulsion to transfer a new block of cash to an account in London, Paris or Berlin, to dig in.’
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