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Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures. In the past five years, seed-stage investing has experienced a boom. In North America, seed funds now represent 67 percent of all VC funds, up from 33 percent in 2008. The CEE region is no different: according to European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, the number of seed deals has increased 19x over the past four years. Even considering the fact that EVCA’s data is not fully comprehensive, since many investments are not announced at all or are not made by EVCA’s members, it still illustrates my point. Hand-in-hand with the rise in seed funding…
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8 things to know before working with an offshore dev team
Feb01
on February 1, 2015
at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Insider, startup, YEC, Young Entrepreneur Council
Most of us have been tempted to outsource some or all of our development work to an offshore team in order to save money. But is this the best idea for your business? The short answer is: It depends. To better understand the pros and cons, I polled a group of entrepreneurs from YEC about what one should know before deciding not to hire an in-house team. I asked them the following: I’m considering working with an offshore development team. What do I absolutely need to know before going this route? Their best answers are below. 1. You Will Spend…
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Michael Baxter is co-author of iDisrupted, a new book on disruptive technology. The problem with the economy is economists. The problem with economists is technology Pick up an economics book; any one will do, a heavy or easy read, and move to the index. See if you can find the words ‘Moore’s’ and ‘Law’. The book will be full of elegant theories, but when it comes to what really drives the economy – makes us rich or poor – it is sadly lacking. Technology, or the ability to invent it, is what separates modern-day Homo sapiens living in a plush…
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