This letter should have been titled “eFounders Letter 10” to keep in with the yearly tradition that I started 9 letters ago in 2013. …

In the past ten years, we’ve done something no one’s ever done before: launching companies as a team. The majority of startups are launched by a couple of founders, who in the early beginnings are by themselves trying to get their ideas off the ground. At eFounders, startups are launched…

Contact managers are among the most commonly installed apps. Hundreds of millions of instances exist on nearly every phone, PC or Mac. Yet nobody uses them, except as address books when looking for a phone number or email. …

We cracked the startup studio model. The statement may seem a bit presumptuous, but it is looking truer every day. Many have tried parallel entrepreneurship and have either given up or are still trying to make it work. Despite the rise of the venture builders, few have actually proved the…

I don’t usually put pen to paper to share our new companies. But this time is special (even by our standards). We recently announced the first 3 companies to come out of our eF19 batch. Here is the story of the 4th company to join us this year: 5 years…

Catering to a company’s every need — Nothing is more exciting than sitting down with entrepreneurs to consider how to disrupt an industry, challenge incumbents, and imagine the future of work. Designing innovative tools that change the working lives of millions is what fuels us everyday. The first wireframe, the first line of code, the first “aha!”…

7 years ago today, Quentin Nickmans and I met for a coffee in Brussels. We had this crazy idea to create a startup studio: building many companies in parallel by pooling resources. The idea was clear from day-one: we wanted to work very hard over a short period of time…

Building the Future of Work — We launched eFounders 6 years ago and haven’t had any (significant*) exit yet. That means that for the last 6 years we’ve been burning money continuously without making any returns. Mathematically, it isn’t dramatic since the average exit time in the B2B software industry is 7.5 years. Psychologically, it’s very…

Since starting eFounders — 6 years and 12 startups ago— we’ve presented ourselves as a startup studio. At that time, the concept of startup studio was almost unknown and ambiguous. In the last 5 years, we’ve evangelized the concept of the startup studio in order to make people understand what…