As I am lucky enough to be based in Barcelona, I could not miss the opportunity to attend the Mobile World Congress and 4YFN 2023 event, the largest and most influential connectivity event in the world. This was not my first time. I had already been there twice and, besides the entertainment, thought it was...
Category: Thought Leadership
Four of the Most Devastating Financial Mistakes New Entrepreneurs Make
Launching your first big business venture is a thoroughly exciting prospect. Whether your motivation is passion, career freedom, or both, odds are that you are pouring your heart and soul into building the best enterprise you can. Even so, enthusiasm and inexperience often go hand-in-hand when it comes to luring new entrepreneurs toward critical mistakes....
How to raise funding in the public market ?
If you are managing a private company, at some point, you are bound to have thought about taking it public to raise money. Indeed, issuing publicly listed shares to a myriad of hands-off minority investors seems like a nice way to raise equity without losing the operating control of the company. But before you jump...
How to set up a regulated Fund with a limited amount of cash?
If you want to raise funding, you should naturally think about setting up a Fund. Having a Fund allows you to handle multiple investors and to dissociate their investment [into the Fund] from the Fund's investments [into non-cash assets]. Advantages are multiples: the Fund Managers do not have to get approval from their investors for...
Leverage your payment processing system
If you are running a business, either offline or online, you must have had to deal with payment processing. What used to be simple, in a nutshell, cash payments versus check payments, is becoming extremely complex with new technologies, new regulations and a flurry of new players. To understand the complexity, we can segment some...