General 26 Apr 2019 Interview with Digital Shadows’ Alastair Paterson: The Company’s Growth Story (1/3) Tosin Agbabiaka talks growth with the CEO of the market leading digital risk protection company. Written by Tosin Agbabiaka Read more
General 11 Apr 2019 Setting budgets: not sexy but crucial Setting budgets is a cornerstone process of every company, regardless of size. So with no apology for covering the basics, what does best and worst practice looks like? Written by Will Gibbs Read more
General 5 Apr 2019 Nobody cares about your ‘platform’ (until they know what real problems it solves) Nobody cares about your ‘platform’ (until they know what real problems it solves) Written by Philip Lay Read more
General 21 Feb 2019 The Fame Game: Taking a Startup from Nothing to Something Every company starts from nothing. David only got famous by giving Goliath a really sore head. So how does a tiny unknown reach giant status?... Written by Malcolm Ferguson Read more
General 7 Feb 2019 Why Enterprise Saas Deals Don’t Close Whether your company’s sales process consists of six neatly defined steps (in theory) or sixty less predictable steps (in practice) as in the... Written by Philip Lay Read more
General 31 Jan 2019 Creating a Winning Talent Pipeline for your Startup Your company has three basic choices when it comes to creating a winning Talent pipeline: your own in-house recruiter, an embedded 3rd party... Written by Alan Cairns Read more
General 22 Dec 2018 Getting Compensation Right in Startups Setting salaries, bonus levels and equity grants can be a hard task. Getting it right, avoiding misperceptions and keeping motivation and retention... Written by Alan Cairns Read more
General 12 Dec 2018 What’s best for the company? The life-cycle of a Founder CEO. As Larry Sonsini, our visiting Silicon Valley ‘founding father’ pointed out, going public is no longer the endgame for startups. It’s a... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 6 Dec 2018 “It’s Just Math”: The New Marketing Landscape. The world has changed. The world of sales and marketing has definitely changed. But some are still not getting it right. Why not? To thrash this... Written by Pete Daffern Read more
General 29 Nov 2018 Getting That First Sales Hire Right: Focus In my last blog we covered the importance of focus: how by following a structured process we can understand business impact,... Written by Ian Perry Read more
General 20 Nov 2018 Question the Questions: Question the Questions is a report from Octopus Ventures that provides a stress-tested guide to international expansion, powered by insights... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 19 Nov 2018 Question the Questions Resources First Ask Should you expand abroad? 15: Hello Fresh link: https://www.hellofresh.com Should you enter the US? Is the timing right? 18: Y-Plan... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more