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Design Driven Startup Cultures
By Guest Author Soren Petersen Startup hubs are popping up like mushrooms across the world, each with its own culture, competitive advantages and opportunities for creating unique businesses. What might these hubs learn from each other to dial up their performance? To answer this question we spoke with professionals in Copenhagen, Seoul and Los Angeles,
INDEX: Funding High Impact New Ventures
By Guest Author Soren Petersen High-impact Design Driven Startups are investors’ darlings and the INDEX: Award is taking advantage of this by applying their unique design award evaluation process to vetting candidates for venture capital funding. The organization’s newly launched Danish Ventures – Investing in Design to Improve Life foundation is the next step in
The No-VC Semiconductor Company
An adapted excerpt from Tough Things First by Guest Author Ray Zinn Micrel was launched on my personal credit. I wanted to avoid venture capital and family loans when starting my semiconductor company, so I approached three different banks. I knew that banks didn’t lend to start-ups with unproven management teams and no products. But
Blindness and Entrepreneurial Vision
An excerpt from Tough Things First by Guest Author Ray Zinn Of all bodily senses, eyesight is the most essential. I lost mine shortly before Micrel issued its initial public offering. I was in London on a leg of our IPO roadshow, where Micrel senior management was engaging investors in the last months before we
Navigating Risk and Design in Startups
By Guest Author Soren Petersen Investing in new entrepreneurial ventures operating within The Creative Economy may be the best option for creating future progress. Startups have the advantage of beginning with a blank slate and their key strategic advantage lies in creating breakthrough innovative offerings while mitigating exposure to the disproportionately large risk.
Public Access to Startup Investments
By Guest Author Soren Petersen In the United States, for the first time since 1933, you do not have to earn more then $200k annually or be a millionaire to invest in startups. As long as the startup raises less than fifty million dollars annually, anyone can now get into the game at the ground
Successfully Crowdfunding Design Driven Startups
By Guest Author Soren Petersen Design-driven startups are ideal for attracting funding on crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and Crowdfunder. However, competition for funds is fierce and only the top percentile receives significant funding. For example for Kickstarter “Design” projects only the top half percentile receive funding in excess of half a million and
Predicting the Success of Design Driven Startups
By Guest Author Soren Petersen In stark contrast to previous decades, starting a new venture can be accomplished on a shoestring budget. This is due to the diminishing cost of information and tools combined with the relatively high value of knowledge, skills, and experience that founders bring to the equation. Bootstrapping is now often possible
