May 9Venture building in the web3 eraExploring the impact of web3 to venture building. Venture building as we know it is changing. The advent of new technologies and a novel way to organize projects will dramatically impact how we build companies, but also how we build a professional life. The idea that your career needs to fit neatly into a company or organization becomes…Web 36 min read
Jan 26Acing Due Diligence: Selecting Startups Like a ProAs an angel investor, handpicking promising startups that actually do have the potential to succeed is one of the most challenging tasks you’ll have to undertake. Europe in 2021 had one of the best — if not the best- years in terms of startups’ revenue, which possibly exceeded $100 billion…Investing5 min read
Nov 11, 2021Embracing Production Capital: Do It Like SequoiaThe days of funding for the sake of return seem long gone. More and more venture capital firms switch from a pocket to a backer of continuous growth and innovation. The benefit is two-fold: more and better tech companies, and a ceaseless self-funding source for the VC firm itself. …VC5 min read
Apr 8, 2021Vesquad develops yet another operational VC. This time in Libya!At Vesquad, we are really excited to announce that we have an amazing challenge in front of us. A challenge that will allow us to deliver upon our vision and actively support the venture builders of this world. …VC2 min read
Dec 16, 2020Venture building made easy. Operational VC and Venture BuildersBack in my days, start-up incubators and accelerators were the rave within the entrepreneurship community. Schools and universities, private companies, and even research labs all ventured into incubators. …Venture Builder5 min read
Oct 7, 2020Product Strategy: 3 (short) exercises to start tackling this challenge.If you have ever worked in a small company, especially a technology start-up, the chances are that you have rarely participated (voluntarily at least) in a discussion to define your product strategy. From my experience building technology ventures from scratch the last +21 years, this topic rarely makes it to…Product Strategy5 min read
Nov 14, 201920 lessons learned (the hard way) as an entrepreneur for the last 20 years.It was the 1st of September 1999, when along with my two brothers, we opened up the door of our first retail business in Athens, Greece, and since then, I was fortunate enough to have co-founded multiple ventures. …Startup10 min read
Dec 28, 2018Why speaking to a tech conference should be on your resolution list.(201)8 learnings from the events I was invited to speak or attend this year From Amsterdam and London to Las Vegas, this year I had the opportunity to be invited as a speaker or attend some of the biggest, most innovative conferences of 2018 and came back full of excitement…Startup6 min read
Jun 11, 2018Is there any innovation happening in retail today?Summary of my presentation at the #TNWConference 2018 Almost two weeks ago I was invited to run a session at the TNW Conference — a digital conference professing to bring together the best and the brightest, hosted in Amsterdam and attended by everyone who is doing or is interested in…Retail6 min read
Published in HackerNoon.com·Nov 23, 2016Conversational commerce is here. What is next?Conversational commerce is here. So, if you are like me, you were initially inspired by Golden Krishna and his vision about no interfaces. Then you read the first and the second article by Chris Messina and start using the term conversational commerce. …Conversational Commerce4 min read
