Date | Title | Description |
15.01.2021 | OK Google! Find a business incubator near me | How can I find a business incubator near me, to help me turn my idea into a business? This burning q... |
13.01.2021 | A view on the 2020 Scrum Guide Update: The sweet points | There has been a “buzz” going on for a while about the last update of the Scrum Guide, announced bac... |
11.01.2021 | Startup pitch made easy — Are you ready? | Your startup pitch. Just uttering the phrase can excite and stress every aspiring startup founder in... |
31.12.2020 | Net revenue retention and how to get there | So, you’re running a SaaS startup that finally managed to get on track. New customers keep coming yo... |
23.12.2020 | From engineer to founder: top mistakes you’re bound to make... | Going from engineer to founder of a startup or new business is a challenging task. One thing is cert... |
16.12.2020 | Why building successful startups in Greece is feasible | “You have found the golden goose in building successful startups”. That was the reaction of a coordi... |
11.12.2020 | Hiring engineers for your startup: How to get started | You run a tech startup and you’re about to start hiring engineers to grow your team, right? But how ... |
04.12.2020 | 5 startup funding stages you should know about | Funding is one of the most important and hard-to-find resources needed on your way to building your ... |
02.12.2020 | Startups: why you shouldn’t apply common sense in business | Over the past twenty years, I’ve served as the founder and co-founder of tens of software startups; ... |
01.12.2020 | Agile Greece Retreat — How it evolved in the Covid-19 era |
Agile Greece Summit is a well known international event/conference gathering world class agile exp... |
27.11.2020 | All you need to know about Limited Partner investors | As a startup founder or fledgling business owner looking for funding, few things are as important as... |
20.11.2020 | What are pre-seed investors? Do you need them? | Good question. Pre-seed investors – or investment – is a fairly recent addition to the startup-inves... |
18.11.2020 | What’s a valuation cap and why do you need it | A Valuation cap is, without a doubt, the most important term of your seed investment contract; be it... |
11.11.2020 | Startup distractions: things to avoid when running a busines... | Distractions are everywhere. As above in life, so below in startups. As a startup founder or owner o... |
06.11.2020 | How to write a term sheet for a convertible note | Signing a term sheet for a convertible note is, more or less, a kind of a no-strings-attached agreem... |
04.11.2020 | Startups: in search of the right problem to solve | The majority of startup founders usually have both the theoretical knowledge, gained through study, ... |
30.10.2020 | How to conduct a post-money valuation, the right way | Conducting a post-money valuation is more or less a matter of ‘rough’ calculations, estimations, ext... |
28.10.2020 | Startups: How do you know you have really learned? | Learning and knowledge are, without a doubt, the core pillars of economy, collaboration and creativi... |
23.10.2020 | All the prerequisites to get you to seed funding | Are you a member of a fledgling startup that wants to bring a brilliant business idea into reality? ... |
21.10.2020 | Proof of Concept (PoC): What it is and what it isn’t | Proof of Concept (PoC). Three magic words (excluding the abbreviation in brackets of course) that ar... |
16.10.2020 | Secure yourself some seed capital and get started | Good seed makes for a good crop. That’s what they say; and they’re right. Quite the same happens whe... |
14.10.2020 | Why your MVP is not a Beta version of your product | The MVP is not a Beta version, indeed! Releasing your software without testing it first, sounds like... |
09.10.2020 | Why a mission statement is important for a successful startu... | Lean startup, business model generation, agile and scrum methodologies. All of these are important c... |
02.10.2020 | Product-Market fit and the risk of premature scaling | Building your startup from scratch? Looking for a product-market fit? If so, make sure you’ve checke... |
25.09.2020 | Busting the myths of leadership skills for startups | To paraphrase William Shakespeare, some people are born leaders, some achieve leadership, and some h... |
18.09.2020 | How problem-solution fit helps minimize startup waste | What is the first milestone you need to achieve once you’ve set up shop for your startup? Perhaps, o... |
11.09.2020 | Quantum Computing courses for our startups have just begun | Summer comes to an end and it’s the best time of the year to be setting new goals. As the title deno... |
02.09.2020 | Content for startups: have a strategy, be consistent, and sh... | If you have ever been intrigued by “fluffy”blog article’s like ‘How to be successful with content ma... |
28.08.2020 | Get your startup from product to business development | When customer feedback is wisely channeled on product development, chances to build a successful B2B... |
21.08.2020 | The three essential elements in a successful startup | As with everything in life, there’s no secret recipe in developing a successful startup. Then again,... |
14.08.2020 | A 19-year-old man in the startup world | Yes, indeed! It’s hard to imagine someone so young in this type of game. Surely, there needs to be a... |
07.08.2020 | The Lean Startup approach: A do or die tactics, for Greek un... | Over the last twelve years I’ve had the honor to go through all the steps of academic education. I a... |
31.07.2020 | Becoming an entrepreneur — or, maybe not? | Can you work under pressure and to tight deadlines? It’s a classic question you get at job interview... |
24.07.2020 | Why outsourcing is not a wise choice for startups — pt.2 | In our previous article, we discussed why outsourcing is not a wise choice for startups. And we star... |
17.07.2020 | Why outsourcing is not a wise choice for startups — pt.1 | To outsource or not outsource? Well, for us, there is no dilemma at all. Contrary to Steve Blank’s f... |
10.07.2020 | Get the first paying customer for your startup | Getting the first paying customer for your startup; how does that sound to you? Well, it depends on ... |
08.07.2020 | 10th Panorama of Entrepreneurship and Career Development | No pandemic can hold back progress and advancements. Especially, when it comes to Panorama of Entrep... |
03.07.2020 | Hiring your startup’s first employee — A crash course guide... | Hiring your startup’s first employee. It can be one of the scariest and most exciting aspects of mak... |
01.07.2020 | From project to product mindset: startups’ key mentality shi... | Is it possible to turn software developers into entrepreneurs? Challenging as it may sound, when thi... |
24.06.2020 | How important is getting your startup to break even? | Getting you startup to break even. It can seem like THE major landmark for most startups to celebrat... |
18.06.2020 | A webinar about the future of Informatics, by the H.I.U. | The Hellenic Informatics Union organizes today a webinar to discuss all about the current state of a... |
17.06.2020 | The three pillars of Lean Transformation | Do you know the three fundamental business issues that guide lean transformation for any organizatio... |
12.06.2020 | Why the secret to deep work is getting some deep rest | Deep work. In our distracted world, it is a modern-day Holy Grail, a chalice of overflowing promise ... |
10.06.2020 | Why we decided to offer AI courses to our startups | When you hear the acronym ‘AI’ what’s the first thing that comes to mind? And what does it have to d... |
05.06.2020 | Isolation, well-being and startup challenges during quaranti... | There are plenty of startup challenges during quarantine, which continue to affect companies on a da... |
03.06.2020 | Relevant leads towards a successful sale | Are you wondering how you can gather relevant leads to make a decent sale? Use influence maps! Influ... |
29.05.2020 | Why you should work at a startup in Athens | I’ll start by questioning even my own wisdom of posing this as an actual point of debate. Let me rea... |
29.05.2020 | Win2020 Forum for equal opportunities in entrepreneurship | Are you a change maker and diversity lover already involved or planning to get involved in entrepren... |
25.05.2020 | Mastering how to be a resilient company has never been more ... | Redundancies, furloughs and emergency fundraising. This wasn’t the way 2020 was supposed to go for t... |
20.05.2020 | Challenges finding early adopters for your B2B SaaS startup | In case you’re somehow involved in a fledgling startup, you’re certainly confronted with a wide vari... |
13.05.2020 | Building the future Skroutz | Startup and then scale-up. What’s next? Well, when startup companies reach that level of growth, it’... |
12.05.2020 | Think Silicon exit marks the start of a new era for Greek st... | Another milestone for the Greek startup ecosystem comes to validate a fact that is known to everyone... |
08.05.2020 | Why you should absolutely ignore the Lean Startup methodolog... | You have to be Lean and mean to be successful, they say. Go Lean or go home, they preach. Rubbish, w... |
06.05.2020 | Skroutz: from startup to scale-up | Is it possible for a startup to scale up sans funding? Well, our latest host to hold an event on Sca... |
05.05.2020 | Startup Greece Week is loading | How can we get a step closer to the total digital transformation of companies and organizations? Joi... |
29.04.2020 | Skroutz – The Greek scale-up that changed the game | What is the first e-commerce platform that comes to mind, when it comes to online shopping in Greece... |
24.04.2020 | Help your startup survive the global crisis — prepare for th... | Help your startup survive, indeed. During crises of any kind, especially when caused by external for... |
22.04.2020 | Why startups fail and the lessons to learn | There is a proverbial myriad of different reasons why startups fail. And a host of different ways to... |
16.04.2020 | How the European startup ecosystem shapes up to Silicon Vall... | Silicon Valley. The promised land. The only place where Unicorns – as well as legends – are born and... |
15.04.2020 | Why we’re [still] hiring during the pandemic | *SPOILER ALERT* This blog post contains messages of optimism! There’s no doubt that a transformation... |
10.04.2020 | Defying the conventions of Silicon Valley VC firms | It’s pretty amazing that in 2020, many Silicon Valley VC firms are still following a policy of overf... |
03.04.2020 | What makes a startup irresistible when approaching potential... | Is it your perfect pitch deck? Or is it your business model? Or, could it be your amazing product? W... |
02.04.2020 | How being against remote working comes to terms with our res... | Work from home, remote working, telecommuting, whatever you should call it, the majority of business... |
27.03.2020 | Types of customers in B2B & the organizational map | Are you wondering who might be the right person to talk to (customers in B2B), when it comes to sell... |
19.03.2020 | Introducing the Rising Vtrip Award | We all want to feel that our contribution matters and that all of our efforts are recognized. Don’t ... |
19.03.2020 | Hiring for your startup: when and how | Running a tech startup is not just writing code and exclusively focusing on developing your software... |
11.03.2020 | How we define startup disruption at Starttech | How do you actually go about trying to define startup disruption these days? I mean isn’t everybody ... |
10.03.2020 | What we’re doing in response to the coronavirus epidemic | Over the last couple of months there has been a growing concern regarding the novel coronavirus SARS... |
04.03.2020 | Working software over comprehensive documentation | What are the barely sufficient prerequisites your product needs to satisfy, before it’s successful? ... |
28.02.2020 | Q&A with the organizing committee at Panorama of entrepr... | “We need to give way to young people and help them flourish”. These were Prof. Iordanis Ladopoulos’ ... |
28.02.2020 | Q&A with the organizing committee at Panorama of entrepr... | “We need to give way to young people and help them flourish”. These were Prof. Iordanis Ladopoulos’ ... |
26.02.2020 | Cultivating a collaborative startup accelerator culture | In our era of digital transformation, online productivity tools, remote working, and rapid advances ... |
21.02.2020 | Why ‘skin in the game’ is a major criterion for investors... | Put your skin in the game. Or if you prefer the more terse version, put your money where you mouth i... |
19.02.2020 | Get ready for the local round of Hash Code 2020 at CSD | Do you live and breathe code? Are code challenges your thing? Are you also a team player? Well, here... |
14.02.2020 | Building bridges between academia and startups | The success and future health of any entrepreneurial ecosystem depends heavily on how strong the lin... |
13.02.2020 | The secret to creating engaging content | We live in an age where in order to be successful with your startup (or with anything at all actuall... |
07.02.2020 | Startup Pitch Night by IIC @ Bosch is loading | Startup Pitch Night by IIC is coming up on March 10 at Robert Bosch S.A. at Koropi. And it’s a great... |
05.02.2020 | Common lies entrepreneurs tell themselves | It’s so easy to lie to yourself at the best of times, never mind when you’re getting started in entr... |
31.01.2020 | Reduce startup risk, using the Lean Methodology | Did you know most startups fail to take off due to high risk business decisions (startup risk)? Well... |
30.01.2020 | Startup Pitch Night by IIC @BoschHellas | Are you an IoT startup? Does the idea of pitching your business in front of an audience of experienc... |
21.01.2020 | Get ready for a Scale-up Greece Meetup at Skroutz | Scale up Greece Meetup is here to stay. That’s right! Once more we would like to invite you to the f... |
20.01.2020 | Why entrepreneurs need to read books | When Elon Musk was asked how he learned to build rockets, he gave a simple and striking answer: “I r... |
15.01.2020 | Join us in blood donation at Epignosis | What is the most precious giveaway each one of us can offer for free? In particular, one that can ha... |
09.01.2020 | Let’s talk about storytelling for startups | Whether we like it or not, we are all storytellers. True, some of us are better at it than others (i... |
02.01.2020 | People over process: the ultimate Αgile principle | People over process is at the heart of Agile. And though it might seem like a subversive approach, a... |
20.12.2019 | The product development backlog isn’t your road-map | The development backlog is not your road-map. The road-map is a visualization of the strategic produ... |
12.12.2019 | Running Ventures at Starttech | Running startups, running procedures and running for the sake of running. At Starttech Ventures we l... |
04.12.2019 | Computer Science Career paths with Manos Pavlidakis | As we’ve mentioned before, here in our blog, Starttech’s roots can be traced back to the Computer Sc... |
29.11.2019 | Customer interviews: when, why and how | Have a brilliant idea for a great (tech) product that will have a huge impact on the market? That’s ... |
18.11.2019 | You’re only as good as the startup market type you choose | Is your startup struggling to scale up? Or worse still, is it failing to do so? It could simply be a... |
11.11.2019 | Greek VCs and disruptive startups | What industries do Greek VCs invest in? What makes a promising startup attractive to investors? And ... |
06.11.2019 | Looking for a recession-proof startup? Think twice before jo... | So, you’re a talented individual looking for a recession-proof startup or trailblazing tech scale-up... |
04.11.2019 | The different types of innovation in business | There’s a lot to be said about the different types of innovation in business. And within any busines... |
23.10.2019 | How to be a [good] startup CEO | “I’m CEO, Bitch.” These are, of course, the immortal words which adorned Mark Zuckerberg’s early Fac... |
21.10.2019 | Event alert! ‘Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies’ at Decentra... | Are you obsessed with FinTech? Love innovation, technology and the digital currency revolution? Get ... |
14.10.2019 | Notes on the art of product management | What the hell is a product roadmap anyway? How can OKR’s (Objectives and Key Results) help product m... |
09.10.2019 | How to cultivate employee engagement in a startup | The secret of employee engagement in a startup environment is that there is actually no secret. It’s... |
03.10.2019 | StartupNow Forum 2019 is loading… | Are you a dreamer, a doer and an innovator involved in the Greek startup ecosystem? Then you surely ... |
02.10.2019 | Pitching your startup to investors — what to remember | Pitching your startup to investors. Ah, that old chestnut. It’s every entrepreneur’s greatest dream ... |
30.09.2019 | Vertical market strategy for startups: When and why | As a startup, whether or not you have a specific vertical market strategy will depend heavily on you... |