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The Basics of Micro PE: Where and What to Buy

The Basics of Micro PE: Where and What to Buy

In this edition, you will learn where a micro PE fund looks for opportunities and what criteria they have to meet. I will also dive deeper into some of your most frequent questions, such as: * Who would even sell a company so early? * What do you really get for such

The Independent 'Micro PE' Entrepreneur

The Independent 'Micro PE' Entrepreneur

For the past 10+ years, I have been working with startups, and B2B SaaS in particular, across different settings: I bootstrapped a startup, At Meta I started and operated a startup accelerator in Berlin, I 'corporate ventured' a startup and I consulted companies in Germany & Austria. With

The Independent Technology Business Manfesto

The Independent Technology Business Manfesto

We often hear stories that technology companies "must fundraise" in order to capture relevant market share and become leaders in their industry. This thinking originates from a time where technology companies needed large sums to get started, and then create a business that can scale at little marginal

Ending oratio

Today, I'm turning 30 and I would like to share with you my journey of ending oratio over the last couple of months. As some of you already know, my co-founder David and I phased out our work at oratio over the past few months since we had

After two years in, this is what I learned from organizing ChatbotConf, an international tech conference

After two years in, this is what I learned from organizing ChatbotConf, an international tech conference

Just recently in October 2017, we hosted the second edition of ChatbotConf in Vienna. We, that is oratio, a platform for business-to-consumer communication on top of messengers. Organizing tech conferences was therefore never the core of our business, but in June 2016 we figured that bringing together people at an

East Africa through Western eyes: startups & entrepreneurship

East Africa through Western eyes: startups & entrepreneurship

Every country has its own entrepreneurial spirit. While many trends and best practices such as the Lean Startup model are considered as common knowledge, their execution varies between countries, cultures and environments. The Kenyan entrepreneurial culture is surprisingly different on one side and surprisingly common on the other side, compared

East Africa through Western eyes: society & technology

East Africa through Western eyes: society & technology

About a week ago I embarked on a personal mission to better understand the East African tech and startup scene respectively. My goal was to talk to as many local stakeholders as possible and all in all I got 11 meetings with local startups, developers, expats, investors, initiatives (Internet.org)

Discovering digital Africa

Discovering digital Africa

Over the last years working on oratio and several other projects I started to become increasingly interested in digitally emerging markets such as South America, Eastern Europe, South East Asia and Africa. The latter has caught my interest in particular. I realized that most of the entrepreneurs I know in