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Straightforward discussions on why often we disagree with the current hype, without filters or buzzwords.

Party's over, the next trillion-dollar markets are bears

Party's over, the next trillion-dollar markets are bears

I've been discussing on and off how primarily digital was all about consumers' gadgets, pizza-delivery startups, and in cases of B2B, SaaS, and cloud. I'm not reviewing it all over again, but the keyword you're looking for is laziness (or efficiency, depending on

The slow unbundling of European banks

The slow unbundling of European banks

One of the many paradoxes of consumers regarding innovation is how slow they are to react to what impacts them the most. The more critical a product is to them, the slower they seem to be willing to shift to new, better solutions. There's undoubtedly a "devil

Is the French startup ecosystem to blame for its elitism?

Is the French startup ecosystem to blame for its elitism?

I rarely comment or (worse) link to websites discussing startup ecosystems as they mostly only report how much money was raised by teams X or Y. Which, in and of itself, as someone working on innovation and not short-term risky investments, bears no interest to me. But there's

What Y Combinator tells us about the EU startup ecosystem

What Y Combinator tells us about the EU startup ecosystem

It's difficult not to consider the Y Combinator accelerator as the mother of everything startup for these last (nearly) twenty years. If anything, their track record is impressive, and their own marketing doesn't even bother trying to be smart or subtle. Facts are enough: "39%

Can we finally let go of NFTs?

Can we finally let go of NFTs?

Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified, an eye-watering 69,795 of them have a market cap of 0 Ether (ETH). This statistic effectively means that 95% of people holding NFT collections are currently holding onto worthless investments. Having looked into those figures, we would estimate that 95% include