For decades governments and business leaders are trying to understand the venturing ecosystem in Silicon Valley. With over 30,000 start-ups, a world leading venture capital industry and continuously emerging high growth technology companies, the Bay Area is the... Read More

Despite the tremendous success of the ‘blockbuster’ venture capital model, a new venture model is emerging in the tail of the venture industry. A growing number of start-ups choose a different path to develop a... Read More

On 28 November 2013, Deloitte announced the EMEA Deloitte Technology Fast500 winners in London. The technology industry is renowned for its innovation and disruptive business models. Over the past years highly succesful tech exits and... Read More

Innovation and entrepreneurship are hughly important to transform our economies. Not an easy undertaking these days. Yet, despite the financial crisis and increasing unemployment rates, I like to mention two disruptive developments that will boost exponential innovation... Read More

Traditional media companies manage diversified portfolios of newspapers, magazines, Internet, radio and TV channels. As a result of decreasing (print) volumes and a shift of advertising spend from print to Internet, mobile and TV, profit margins are diminishing year over year.... Read More

A few weeks ago Deloitte published the TMT Predictions 2013. One of the predicties covers the rise of crowd funding portals. Well-known international players are Causes, Kickstarter and Ulule. In addition, numerous niche or local crowd... Read More