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Transformational buy & build platforms: a new growth avenue for scale-ups

Transformational buy & build strategies may provide you with a 10x value creation opportunity that comes with different growth path ... Read More

Live on YouTube: interview Daan Witteveen at Angel Cafe

On 28 February 2022, Daan Witteveen was interviewed by Marleen Evertsz and Jay-Jay Boske. During the interview, Daan touches on the importance of startup activity to shape our future of health, energy, mobility,... Read More

Transformational M&A – a new playbook 

In 2022, I switched from international technology M&A advisory to working with platform companies as an investor and board advisor. Taking stock of 15 years as an M&A partner, I... Read More

The next wave in technology M&A and investments: five trends

In 2021, M&A and investments in the technology sector are breaking records both in terms of volume and valuations. Technology is dominating the M&A league tables. With the increasing importance... Read More

Five ground rules to secure VC funding in a crisis

For startups raising venture capital in a crisis is much tougher than they were used to. Fewer deals at lower valuations will inevitably lead to a shake-out in the startup... Read More

Five perspectives on the public sector, corporate agility and resilient ecosystems

The impact of COVID-19 is disruptive to the way we live, work, collaborate and experience the hidden powers of the collective. Based on dozens of discussions with business leaders, scale-up... Read More

The ‘Term Sheet Quadrant’ – alpha 1.0

At the start of the new year in January 2019, Y-Combinator, announced to open source their Series-A Term Sheet with the ambition to contribute to the development of an industry... Read More

Ecosystem Operating Models: how to participate, create and capture value in new ecosystems?

New technologies and business models require businesses to innovate their products and services faster than ever. Organisations are facing mounting pressures to adopt digitisation, robotisation, artificial intelligence and flexible consumption models. Companies that fail to... Read More

The Value Stack: a model to assess the value creation potential of technology companies

Technology companies are disrupting industries, one after another. Yet, most traditional companies have no clue about the way technology companies operate and create value. As traditional strategy and investment analysis... Read More

Ecosystems require corporations to rethink their corporate governance

In the venture economy a constant flux of innovation is hitting the marketplace at an increasing pace. No longer corporations can rely on their existing cashflows from products and services. A three-year forecast horizon is challeging, if... Read More
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