@timobruecken @Siftedeu@JFLenhard Zebras balance profits with impact (social, humanitarian, green, etc) - hence the stripe pattern of being two seemingly opposite things at once. Cockroaches prioritise sustainable growth or profit. Both tend to grow more slowly as a result.
"Rapid growth isn’t an option for many founders. The world doesn’t care about our pitch decks and market aspirations when shit happens," says @SikanderHauser, founder and CEO at Droplet.
Read his tips to grow a slow but steady business 👇
https://t.co/lv2fHOHX0c
#Volunteers are the lifeblood of sports clubs 🙌 So, @SikanderHauser and his team at Droplet created an #app to make their lives easier. We asked Sikander all about Droplet and the challenges and successes of #startuplife: https://t.co/SwrVYXVNhV #founderstories#AMA
@brendanbaker@brendanbaker check out the ACA Angel Funders Report (Jul 2019) based on 1170 investments / 905 companies. Pages 3 and 9
https://t.co/NMb9sgH7og
... and Angel List's summary for Seed Stage shares of SAFEs vs Convertible Notes (2015 - Jul 2019)
https://t.co/tYaMJqZp70
Next year's #BoatRace between Cambridge and Oxford Universities will take place on the Great Ouse at #Ely.
It will be only the second time the race has been moved off the Thames
https://t.co/oFNJzU1XlY
@eringriffith@eringriffith Not a US startup going IPO, but a startup going IPO in the US: Alibaba raised $25 bn when they’ve floated at the NYSE at $231bn valuation.
@alex thx for @EquityPod today. Re Brexit: yes, we’re still referred to us “European”, same as Norway, Switzerland, and a bunch of other countries between Asia and the Atlantic 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🌍
@WohlfarthMiriam Great article and insights! Even though, equating "Apple" with "USA" or comparing a country x4 size with another is a little skewed...
@DeutscheBank report: only 1% of Germans DON'T use #cash, the rest find cash easier to monitor spending (51%) and faster to pay (44%) than alternatives. BUT less than 1/3 of #Millennials believe cash will always be around...
https://t.co/h0PP4wrjUH
@jochensiegert@n26@n26 is up there with @DeutscheBank and @commerzbank by # users and touching distance for @postbank - nicely done! But are users really ditching their mortgage, insurance and lending providers for N26? At $700 valuation per user I wonder what fuels their rocket 🚀
We’ve teamed up with 6 European e-wallets @bluecodepayment@ePassit, @MiMomoPocket, @PagaquiPortugal, @Pivo and @vipps_no to adopt a unified QR code which will enable users of any of these e-wallets to pay for purchases across 10 European countries. More: https://t.co/gGoy7491lm
Wow!! Amazed in #Portugal with @Alipay, partners, customers and users during @UEFA Nations League Finals in Porto last wk - milestone 1 in 8 year partnership! 🇵🇹 🇳🇱 🏴🇨🇭