Although esports have 427 million spectators worldwide and revenues approaching $1 billion, this is niche compared to the $138 billion that will be spent on electronic games in 2018. With its massive adoption, can smart phones take esports into the mainstream gaming or sports markets? esports are a ...

Contrary to the “young founder” myth, new research shows that among the very fastest-growing new tech companies, the average founder was 45 at the time of founding. Furthermore, a given 50-year-old entrepreneur is nearly 2x as likely to have a runaway success as a 30-year-old. The “young found...

A strategic buyer will generally be the best bet for acquiring your mid-market tech company, where there is a good strategic rationale, as it is more likely to provide a higher valuation than a financial investor. When strategics want an asset in the current market, financial investors are not going...

Back in 2016 conventional wisdom had it that messaging platforms and chatbots were going to disrupt mobile apps, based on what was happening in China with WeChat, where people almost never leave the app, and do their e-commerce and almost everything else within the app environment. And Chris Messina...

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...