Victor BastaThe 10 Commandments Of Selling Your Startup (TEDx talk in Berlin June ‘18)You start a business, work incredibly hard and build a business of real quality. A few years in, you get a call from a senior exec at a…Jun 14, 2018Jun 14, 2018
Victor BastaWho Needs ICO’s? Fin-tech’s Next $100B Opportunity Is Already HereThe ICO (cryptocurrency financing) debate may grab headlines, but there is a far greater, more valuable, and ultimately more…Sep 7, 20171Sep 7, 20171
Victor BastaHow do you disrupt a huge industry & destroy value at the same time? Ad-Tech’s Sobering LessonRocket Fuel’s recent rock-bottom $125m sale to Sizmek confirms an unavoidable trend in advertising technology (ad-tech). What has…Aug 30, 2017Aug 30, 2017
Victor BastaUS INVESTORS ARE FUNDING EUROPEAN UNICORNS, REAPING BIG REWARDSUS investors are helping to create the next wave of European unicorns and already reaping huge dividends. More broadly, US investors are…Aug 22, 2017Aug 22, 2017
Victor BastainVunelaHow to use core values to build a great companyCore values are hard to distill and proliferate, but done right I believe they can be the single most powerful weapon in a company’s…Aug 5, 20171Aug 5, 20171
Victor BastaFin-Tech Is Becoming Over-Valued, Risking Future ExitsPerhaps the single biggest tech investment area the last 5 years has been fin-tech. In Europe and the US, disruptors of everything from…Aug 2, 2017Aug 2, 2017
Victor BastaForget SoundCloud, European Tech Has More $100m+ M&A Deals Than Ever BeforeNegative news recently from Soundcloud, which cut nearly half its staff only a year after ‘mulling over’ a $1B M&A offer, is now the…Jul 10, 2017Jul 10, 2017
Victor BastaUK Govt Report On Tech Is WrongA report from London & Partners a few days ago outlined how the UK tech sector remains extremely strong despite Brexit. In particular, the…Jul 9, 2017Jul 9, 2017
Victor BastaAI Companies Should Think Twice About Raising VC To ScaleThe hottest area for VC investment is AI/ML; artificial intelligence algorithms, related machine learning systems, neural networks, and…Jul 2, 2017Jul 2, 2017
Victor BastaBerlin Not London Will Become Europe’s Silicon ValleyLondon has been the undisputed European technology centre. Until now. Our view is Berlin will rapidly begin to take over, and in 10–15…Jul 2, 2017Jul 2, 2017