Category Archives: Startups

European entrepreneurship and exits

There’s a widely held belief that European entrepreneurs can’t build large, valuable technology companies, and as a result, investment performance in the European venture asset class is poor. As my old statistics professor used to say, “correlation does not imply causation.”
Europe is perfectly capable of building great technology companies. Below is a graphic from a [...]

New London Business School Entrepreneurial Speaker Series

I’m happy to announce that London Business School is launching a new speaker series this year to showcase successful technology entrepreneurs in Europe. The series begins as a monthly series and, if all goes well, will grow to a more regular frequency.
Our initial lineup looks great, with a bunch of colleagues from my Accel days [...]

Startup book pack

Nigel Eccles, an entrepreneur and a friend, wrote this post on Techcrunch raving about Steven Blank’s book. He’s not the first and won’t be the last – Blank’s book is one of the best I’ve seen in the space. It is does the most poignant job of clarifying the difference between a painkiller and a [...]