Mathieu CarenzoEntrepreneurs Jargon made simple (or how you can fool yourself 😊) 2« Our Market is huge” means “Our potential Market is really Big but our accessible market still needs to be defined”2 min read·Sep 23, 2022----
Mathieu CarenzoEntrepreneurs Jargon made simple (or how you can fool yourself 😊) 1.“Our Projections are conservative” is the phrase I hear from probably 90% of the entrepreneurs that I meet. That’s kind of interesting…2 min read·Sep 22, 2022----
Mathieu CarenzoMathieu Translates Investor jargon — “I like your project, but it does not fit with my investment…“I like your project, but it does not fit with my investment strategy” means… I don’t like your project, and I don’t want to invest in it.2 min read·Mar 1, 2022----
Mathieu CarenzoVenture Capital vs Bootstrapping: Mathieu Carenzo On How To Determine If Fundraising Or…Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dive in, our readers would love to learn a bit more about you. Can you tell us a story…9 min read·Apr 8, 2021----
Mathieu CarenzoWhat Mistakes Are Killing Your Start-up? #8: Obstinacy, Mathieu CarenzoRecently I had the chance to moderate a panel of entrepreneurs in the Sports Industry Conference we organize every year in IESE in the…3 min read·Feb 25, 2021----
Mathieu CarenzoWhat Mistakes Are Killing Your Start-up? #7: Fights Between Foundersfounder conflict is very common. Founders, being ambitious people, are almost bound to disagree.3 min read·Nov 4, 2020----
Mathieu CarenzoWhat Mistakes Are Killing Your Startup? #5 and #6: Launching too Early… or too LateIf there is one trend that did change the shape of the entrepreneurial ecosystem these last few years it has been the lean start-up…3 min read·Oct 20, 2020----
Mathieu CarenzoWhat Mistakes Are Killing Your Startup? #4 Confusing an Accessible Market with a Potential OneWhen meeting with entrepreneurs and evaluating the market size for the opportunity they are pursuing, I often see the same mistake: a…2 min read·Oct 2, 2020----
Mathieu CarenzoWhat Mistakes Are Killing Your Startup? #3 Marginal NicheWhat is a niche product? It is a good or service with features that appeal to a particular market subgroup. A typical niche product can be…3 min read·Sep 21, 2020----
Mathieu CarenzoWhat Mistakes Are Killing Your Startup? #2 Wrong LocationStarting a company in Abdijan (a yearly destination of mine) is a far cry from doing so in Barcelona (my home city) or San Francisco. It…3 min read·Sep 14, 2020----
