14 things to avoid in your startup pitch deck
I recently gave a talk on Mastering the startup pitch deck (see below). It’s not the first time I’ve been critical about startup pitching. I try to put my money where my mouth is, so apart from the usual tips, I came up with the typical things I see on start-up
Data roaming? French Connection solves what carriers couldn’t
Data roaming is a problem. Specially if you are a geek. I believe the number one worry for most people that travel abroad on business is if the hotel has WiFi and if it does, will it work? There is indeed such thing as data addiction. We’re being push towards
Hy! Berlin startup competition
I tend to be quite bullish about startup competitions, mostly because so many of them are done really wrong. But I have to say, I’m excited to see what the hy! Berlin team is pulling off. To start with, they’re offering the winners a prize of €15,000 plus several services,
Happy New Year
Hello everyone!! After the Christmas break we’re back for more, but first, we wanted to send our best wishes to everyone! We hope you guys had a fantastic New Year’s eve and a great beginning of 2013! We sure did! We have very exciting plans for this year so we hope you
Startup Exchange Program is back
This guest post was written by Inês Silva, serial entrepreneur and business builder. She co-founded Startup X – a non-profit organization aiming to multiply the impact of entrepreneurs and startups all over the world. Managing Director of Startup Pirates – an international accelerator with operations in 11 countries, Managing Director of Startup Exchange Program and the Managing
Nail your startup pitch at 42 Beers
One more time, and before we head into the new year, we, that is, the Press42 team, are getting ready for the next edition of the 42 Beers event, our own training camp for your start-up pitch. Plenty of events focus on start-up pitching, but in essence, most of them deal
Startups, your landing page sucks
Why do start-ups get competitions so wrong? I’m in shock after preliminary evaluating the LeWeb start-up competition. For starters, three companies out of the sixteen had their landing pages in their local language, French, Italian and Spanish. The Italian and the French were, at least, also available in English, not
Our two start-up favorites at LeWeb
I’m going to go ahead a make a quick prediction on the start-ups that might win the LeWeb competition this year. This is exclusively based on their webpage, my understanding of what they’re trying to do (sometimes quite liberal understanding), and the WOW factor they have. I’m declaring Agents of
Meet the LeWeb startups
With few days for LeWeb Paris, I wanted to introduce you to this year’s startups selected for the official competition. We tend to cover this event every year but this time is specially interesting for the novelty of the theme, Internet of Things (IoT), which makes the competition much more
Is your city a startup ecosystem?
My good friends from Startup Compass strike back with a new fascinating report called: “The Startup Revolution: The Global Rise of Startup Ecosystems And How They Compare“. I just got a glimpse at the report and it’s definitely going to be huge for a lot of governments. I must say
