Founder’s School 137 articles

Cybersecurity

Preparing for the Cyber Resilience Act: Is the EU the Most Regulated Cyber Market?

By Diana Nitescu 21 August 2025 6 mins read

Diana Nitescu’s editorial on Cyber Ressilience Act first appeared in The Recursive’s report State of defense […]

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Raising Big Money Without Losing Control, So the Business Legacy Endures

By Hellen's Rock Capital 20 August 2025 5 mins read

“I never compromised on control.” That was one of the enduring messages from Sacha Dragić […]

Human Resources

The Talent Crisis in Tech Isn’t Hiring. It’s Leadership.

By Ralf Wahlsten 19 August 2025 4 mins read

The talent crisis in tech is striking. The statistics speak for themselves: within the European […]

Cloud

How Many SaaS Tools Does Your Company Use?

By Lenka Vranová 12 August 2025 5 mins read

Efficient spend management has been a real challenge for many businesses, and for a reason. […]

Marketing & Sales

Paid Ads in Fintech: What Founders and CMOs Need to Know Before Scaling

By Stanislav Galandzovskyi 31 July 2025 5 mins read

Over the last 8 years, I’ve worked with fintech startups at various stages – from […]

Interview

The Most Powerful Room in Startupland? One Full of F*ckups

By Ana Marija Kostanic 17 July 2025 7 mins read

  99% of startups fail. How many times have you heard that line? Probably too […]

Travel Tech

I Scaled Startups Across Continents. Now I Help People Discover Africa

By Marina Cangelaris 16 July 2025 8 mins read

If you told me a few years ago that I’d go from scaling venture-backed startups […]

Interview

We Killed OKRs – and the Company Got Better

By Ana Marija Kostanic 4 July 2025 5 mins read

By the time has·to·be was acquired for €250 million by ChargePoint in 2021, it had […]

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What Does It Take to Land a Client Like Zoom?

By Ervins Grinfelds 1 July 2025 4 mins read

Landing a major client certainly requires a bit of luck. But in our case – […]

Deep Tech

“Many Excellent Technologies Have Failed Commercially” – Let’s Talk About Why

By Ana Marija Kostanic 27 June 2025 7 mins read

As one of Central and Eastern Europe’s biggest deep tech events gears up to land […]

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Have a Broken Team? Look In the Mirror to Fix It

By Anna Liebel 26 June 2025 6 mins read

You are a resourceful, tireless leader. You’ve read enough research, incorporated several frameworks into your […]

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“Germany Said My AI Startup Wasn’t Innovative Enough – So I Moved It to Poland”

By Stefan Gogoll 20 June 2025 4 mins read

When a German funding agency told us that “AI alone is not innovative enough,” I […]