Marketplace Valuation: Beyond GMV to Real Value Creation
When DoorDash went public in December 2020, investors valued the company at $72 billion despite…
Average Growth Rate For Startups in 2025
Most startups set revenue targets by gut feel—or simply copy the hockey-stick curves they see in…
The State of European Tech, with Robin Wauters [The Equidam Podcast – 13]
In this conversation, Daniel Faloppa and Robin Wauters discuss the evolution of the European tech…
Investment in AI: Long-term defensibility and value creation [The Equidam Podcast – 12]
This conversation explores the rapid rise of AI investment, the differences between AI…
Building venture success across Europe with Peach Zwyssig of Axelra [The Equidam Podcast – 9]
In this conversation, Peach Zwyssig, CEO of Accelra, discusses the intricacies of building tech…
Benchmarks for startup revenue growth
One of the hardest parts of building a truly innovative company is understanding what success looks…
Artificial Intelligence and the Y Combinator premium [The Equidam Podcast – 7]
In this episode of the Equidam podcast, Dan Gray and Daniel Fuloppa discuss recent updates in…
Employee Stock Options Template
Preparing employee stock option agreements is a complex and lengthy process. This is why we decided…
How much value do you really capture from your data?
With the growth of IoT and connected devices, companies can capture and store more and more data.…
People crying, systems crashing, risking bankruptcy – it’s all logical
In 2001, the career of Kees de Jong went through a pivotal moment. Right in between his first…
Hiring at seed stage: for 10X users, look for “10X” people
With the ongoing conversation about growing and scaling a startup from pre-seed and seed stage to…
Incubator Or Accelerator: Which One Should You Choose?
Do you prefer podcasts? Listen to the audio here You probably have heard of incubators and…
Employee Stock Options: Common Practices And Examples
In our previous post about how much equity to offer to investors at different funding rounds, we…
Read This Before Writing A Business Plan
Call them unfashionable, long, unread, or boring, business plans are still the main way to…
How to Plan a Successful Exit Strategy for Your Business
The global number of businesses bought and sold in 2014 was 11% higher than the year before. As…
4 Reasons why Cash is King or Why You Should Care About Your Burn Rate
Cash is important for survival. The burn rate (how fast you 'burn' the cash in your business) is…
The First Fully European Literature on Startup Scaling
This post originally appeared on Medium here ‘All told [American VCs] did not [seem to have] a…
Better Late Than Never: The Success of Older Entrepreneurs
This inofgraphic originally appeared on the SurePayroll blog here For anyone who thinks startups…
After raising funds, how to keep your shareholders happy?
After you’ve raised funds, you might forget what it takes to keep your capital providers satisfied.…
5 KPIs to Grow your Business
Business metrics are important measures of company processes, and unlike gut-feeling (which…
When to Employ Employee Stock Plans
When should you make use of Employee Stock Option Plans? That is our topic of the day, stemming…
Employee Ownership- The Pros and Cons
Last week we talked about reorganizations- and how to get your team through a restructuring of your…
How to Help Your Team Through a Reorganization
A reorganization, an overhaul of a company's internal structure, is a major event in a company's…
A Look at Exit Strategies
It might be something you are not thinking about yet- a company exit. But there is a merely high…
Why we love the Lean Startup (and you should, too!)
As we’ve encountered ourselves, starting a business is hard. And fantastic. And time-consuming. And…
Comparing burn rates: Am I the only one spending this much?
A word from Equidam co-founder Daniel Faloppa While much has been said about startup and company…