Last time, I brought to you the top 15 most prospective startups shaking up the New York scene. This week, we’re looking at the other side of the coin – the New York startups that have already found great success and firmly established themselves in our hearts and minds.
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15 Common Mistakes Startups Make When Pitching to Investors (as Told by VCs Themselves)
Natalia Chrzanowska
The business landscape is packed with visionary startups looking to change the world and make it a better place. Life is not so rosy, though. Plenty of promising startups are destined to misfire, and one of the reasons is the fact that they fail at successfully pitching their businesses to investors. Their ideas can be amazing, but if they can't convince lenders to trust them and share the risk their ventures involve, they might not even get a chance to make it to the market.
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If there is one thing that is certain about the London startup ecosystem, it is the fact that no one knows what is the next big thing. Netguru has been brave enough to list top 10 most promising startups in 2016. We have now checked how our predictions worked and, happy with the accuracy, we take the challenge again.
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The New York tech sector is continuing to mature, with swathes of hot new startups bursting onto the scenes, innovating everything from FinTech to FoodTech. But who are they? We’ve put together a list of the top 15 most prospective New York startups to keep your eye on in 2017. Let’s meet them.
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I want to help you not to fail. I respect you might have your vision and you are confident it is good. Your product or development team respects that as well. There is a chance you are a genius in the making, and your business idea will change the world. Or you’re not and you just don’t know it. This is why I’m being honest and why I want to tell you not to rely on your gut and vision all the time. You don’t have to learn from your own mistakes and this is how to avoid some of the most popular ones.
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When you’re thinking about the most successful startup hubs in Europe, the first cities that come to your mind are probably London or Berlin. The tech scene in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) isn’t far behind, though. Warsaw, Budapest, Tallinn and Prague – to name a few – are home for many renowned companies that have made it to the international market. Prezi, a popular presentation software that allows users to present their ideas on a zoomable virtual canvas, is a case in point. Very few people know, however, that it was founded in Budapest. Just like all the promising startups we list below. All of them have the capability and resources to expand dynamically, so chances are they will grow successfully on the global market.
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Prague still has a long way to go before they can compete with top European startup hubs like London, Berlin or Amsterdam. That said, the city offers enormous untapped growth potential for emerging companies.
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Many product owners, especially in enterprise-level businesses, have at some point considered hiring a development consulting agency. Before making the final decision, they usually take into consideration hiring freelancers or building an in-house dev team. In this article, we would like to demonstrate what benefits working with an agency can bring you. We firmly believe that when you adopt a team approach from the very start of a project, it can enormously boost the project’s future success.
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In 1944 John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour which was a breakthrough in the area of Mathematics and Economics. It fostered thinking about games in a more rational way and gave us a powerful framework in which to do so. Having read it, I would like to share some of my thoughts and perhaps show you how you can apply these concepts to startups or, indeed, to everyday life. The techniques at the heart of this theory, or maths in general, can give us some basic intuitions for thinking about startup strategies since Game Theory investigates how to behave when there is a conflict of interest.
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The Fintech sector attracts billions of dollars in VC investment. Each week, new startups take over markets that used to be controlled by banks and insurance companies. What will come out of the revolution? Who will win? How will it shape the future of financial services? Read our take on Fintech vs. Banks.
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