General 6 Nov 2018 What are the industry dynamics in the US? Many European entrepreneurs see the US as an incremental progression from the work they’ve done in the home market, when in most cases, a US... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 6 Nov 2018 Is the timing right? Go early • Is the US the Company’s primary market? • Is your primary distribution channel global in nature (i.e. via app marketplaces and... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 6 Nov 2018 Should you expand abroad? Without a well-developed, strategic rationale for international expansion, companies risk under resourcing their foreign entry, under-committing... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 4 Nov 2018 What are important considerations in fundraising from US investors? The US VC perspective Do you have a good reason to be raising funds from US-based investors? – If you are a Seed or Series A company and... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 4 Nov 2018 How do you successfully fundraise in the US? Various European companies have become successful while having only a European investor base IZettle LoveCrafts Sigfox Actility Prodigy... Written by Zoe Chambers Read more
General 4 Nov 2018 How are you managing your culture? Building up and supporting a high functioning team is hard, even when people are working in the same space and come from similar cultures. When... Written by Uzma Choudry Read more
General 31 Oct 2018 Jolt — Rethinking Education 101 It’s a pleasure to announce our latest investment into Jolt, together with Hilsven Capital and Pico Partners. Jolt is setting a new agenda... Written by Eyal Rabinovich Read more
General 4 Oct 2018 What’s it like to sell your start up to a tech giant? Years may pass before the company we’ve invested in will feature on the tech giants’ radars. As with all VCs, we like to be involved early... Written by Luke Hakes Read more
General 4 Oct 2018 Day 3: Powerful messages, simply delivered Company first Both Melissa Taunton of NEA (a giant of the VC world with $20bn under management) and Barry Eggers (Lightspeed founding partner)... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 3 Oct 2018 Day 2: Two Jeffs a Joni and a Tom. The day began with Jeff Miller (Jamm Ventures) who knows all about the origin of the title “Silicon” in this particular Valley. As CEO of... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 2 Oct 2018 Day 1: Tapping into decades of Silicon Valley history and experience It’s a humbling fact to realize that the combined value created by our line-up of guest speakers over the next few days is in the region of... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more
General 26 Sep 2018 Why are 16 UK CEOs travelling 5000 miles? This will be our fourth US CEO trip. In previous years we’ve taken a group of our portfolio CEOs out to California, initially with an emphasis... Written by Octopus Ventures Read more