Key Attributes of an Entrepreneurial Founding Team

Katharina Binder, Head of Accelerator, defines the most crucial traits startups should have in their founding team to ensure the success of their venture.
Exploring Trends in Austria’s Startup Ecosystem

What are currently the major trends happening within Austria’s startup ecosystem?
5 crucial mistakes startup founders make and how to avoid them

Starting your own business is unpredictable and challenging. All founders make mistakes, struggle or question themselves along the way. Some give up, some fail, and few succeed. But many of the mistakes startup founders make are universal. No matter what your business is about, the chance is, someone before you has already walked that path. […]
7 books every entrepreneur should read

Here are the top must-read books for founders & entrepreneurs, as recommended by our CEO.
3 things you should know before quitting your job and starting a business

Living the easy way, quitting the 9-to-5 and founding a startup. Is it really that easy? Well, there are some things you should know first.
How to test your assumptions – experimenting the right way

Here is how to choose between qualitative and quantitative experiments and avoid the most common mistakes when testing your hypotheses.
Idea validation: how to quickly test if your idea is stupid or not

Validating your idea and talking to customers is a crucial first step to ensure there is a market need for your product or service.
3 mistakes you should avoid before launching a new product

At TheVentury, supporting sttartups is part of our DNA. That’s why we get to work with people launching new products on a daily basis. Even though Customer Development & Lean Startup are not new concepts when it comes to launching a new product, we still see people making the same mistakes over and over again. […]
What the (growth) hack? Growth Hacking explained!

Even today, many traditional marketers and managers think about growth hacking or growth marketing as some sort of fluffy trend that belongs to the startup world. What we see from such conversations is that people still have many misconceptions around the topic of growth marketing.
Exploring innovation in Hong Kong & China!

10 weeks ago, we decided we needed to explore the Asian market while preparing our pitch for our latest venture BotBase at the RISE conference in Hong Kong.