As your start-up grows and evolves, through various funding rounds, it is likely that you will need to issue preferred shares at some stage. The timing and terms of these pref shares can have a huge impact on how much money you, as the technopreneur, actually make when finally exiting. Unless you’...

As technopreneurs, we often see opportunities and threats in our hyperconnected world, but we need to go beyond this to understand a powerful new underlying force at work, “new power”, which is a about mobilisation, and channeling participatory energy. Its effect is visible in successful compani...

The crypto economy continues to grow with a market capitalization of over $280 Billion USD. Unlike other financial markets, when you own cryptoassets it’s up to you to ensure their safety. Cryptocurrencies and tokens are bearer instruments and no bank or central authority is going to come to the r...

We have all experienced that presentation using PowerPoint that “almost killed” us. So is there a place for it in today’s technopreneur world? Steve Jobs famously stated, “People who know what they’re talking about don’t need PowerPoint”. Jeff Bezos has banned it outright i...

by John Berry, CEO and co-founder of OneSecurePlan, Inc. We have all at one time or another heard Benjamin Franklin’s famous quote – “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. While I can’t help you with your taxes, I can certainly suggest a plan to ensure ...

If a PE does a buyout of your tech company, there is a 50% chance that it will be as an add-on in a buy-and-build strategy (where the PE buys a company and then builds on that “platform” through add-on acquisitions), according to a recent PitchBook analyst’s report. And according to a BCG stud...

Just like introducing number portability in mobile meant that mobile users (and not mobile operators) could own their mobile number and hence not be captive, so data portability puts the ownership of a data subject’s data firmly in his/her hands, with the ability to move that data to a competitive...

As a senior executive of a systems integration company, I noticed two emerging trends in the software industry structure over the last decade that have led  me to question the very future of the traditional channel. The first trend is towards a closer relationship between the Software Vendor and t...

We come across this question quite frequently, where companies feel that they possibly have the in-house skills to go it alone, or that they find it difficult to justify the advisory fees – whether it is company sales/purchases, management buy-outs (MBO), management buy-ins (MBI), or selling/b...

Contributor: Dr. Sakib Khan*  (Sakib is a partner within the Corniche Crypto/Blockchain Practice) Stripe recently announced that they would no longer be supporting Bitcoin as a payment method for their e-commerce merchants (and this is remarkable given that they were the first payment platform to a...