Wildcat believes and invests in early stage companies that solve massive problems and deliver solutions for a better world. And those solutions can tap into powering those movements around economic equality, diversity and inclusivity. Ruby Ribbon is one of their portfolio companies that have done just that.  They are an innovative,  Continue Reading »

     Crossing the Chasm is a framework that is valuable to driving early stage venture investment decisions while also serving as an operational guide for companies throughout their duration with Wildcat. Yet having a framework isn’t sufficient enough to build and scale a category-disrupting business.  Jennifer Trzepacz, COO and Partner at Wildcat Venture  Continue Reading »

   Crossing the Chasm is a critical framework that the Wildcat team has personally experienced as operators, executives and investors. In fact they have been using it throughout their whole professional careers.  Geoffrey Moore, Author of the best-selling book Crossing the Chasm, and Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, shares that this B2B market development  Continue Reading »

     In early stage venture, determining those important signals that indicate investment potential and traction are critical.  One way to do so is through this concept of power as Geoffrey Moore, Author of Crossing the Chasm, Speaker, Advisor and Venture Partner at Wildcat shares…  “Power is an attempt to say, what are the  Continue Reading »

       Much has changed in the past year and there’s no question that digital transformation initiatives across every business have been front and center. There’s been a lot of forced experiments that have accelerated the adoption of these technology efforts, as the pandemic has catalyzed a shift in how companies approach  optimizing  Continue Reading »

    Where we work and how we work have been completely disrupted by the pandemic. Behaviors, processes, systems and tools have fundamentally changed, and this seismic shift in the way businesses operate is one of the areas that Wildcat focuses on.  It’s called digital transformation — which the Wildcat team defines as how enterprises  Continue Reading »

    COVID-19 has affected lives all around the globe and it’s no secret that it has dialed up digital adoption even in the complex, slower moving, highly regulated healthcare space. As one of their thesis areas, Wildcat has tracked and analyzed the dynamics of the healthcare industry and sees how the pandemic has accelerated their  Continue Reading »

    Invention and innovation have a powerful grip on our collective imagination, and in venture capital there is a front-row seat to the exciting ideas and companies looking to solve massive unsolved problems. This view into what’s next, what the future could bring and where the real value and opportunities lie is what we’re  Continue Reading »

  With rapidly increasing fund sizes and record-breaking dry powder in venture, putting early stage capital to work efficiently is challenging. And as we learned from Bill Ericson in Episode 1 and Episode 2 regarding the ‘Evolution of Venture Capital’, bigger funds and checks aren’t better when it comes to driving outsized returns – in  Continue Reading »

  In part 1 of our 2 part series on the Evolution of Venture Capital, Bill Ericson, Founding Partner at Wildcat, shared how industry dynamics have shifted to a point where the VC asset class now stretches the definition of “venture capital”.  With the current influx of non-traditional venture investors, coupled with the parallel growth  Continue Reading »

    Venture Capital has changed quite a bit over the last 20 years years, to the point where Bill Ericson, Founding Partner at Wildcat, believes that it’s time to step back and stop calling anything that invests in a technology company that is nonpublic “Venture capital”.  For he and the Wildcat team, the very  Continue Reading »

Ep. 70 – Building and Sustaining Effective Teams: The Balance Needed to Drive Momentum – with Jennifer Trzepacz Many of us realize how important team dynamics are to the success of a business. And recent events have made that all the more relevant as many businesses have needed to quickly adapt and adjust to operating  Continue Reading »

Kizzi’s Friday Game Changers Podcast is the world’s number one business podcast show. A unique radio-style podcast interviewing the world’s most innovative business game changers. Presented by Business Game Changer Magazine publisher, Kizzi Nkwocha, Kizzi’s Friday Game Changers provides you with the practical and valuable tools you need to take your game changing business to  Continue Reading »

Ep. 67 – Evolution of Entrepreneurship: Perceptions, Realities and Finding the All-Important Truths – with Bryan Stolle Being an entrepreneur is one of the most challenging career paths you can take — something that Bryan Stolle, serial entrepreneur and Founding Partner at Wildcat Venture Partners, knows intimately. Entrepreneurial success stories have become so pervasive in  Continue Reading »

Neil Hughes interviews tech leaders, entrepreneurs, CEOs, thought leaders and even the occasional celebrity about how technology is transforming their business on my daily show, The Tech Talks Daily Podcast formerly known as the Tech Blog Writer Podcast. In this episode, he interviews Wildcat founding partner, Bryan Stolle. Listen below or see the original post here.

Why do most startups fail? Today, Bruce Cleveland joins Follow Your Different for a master class in building a massively successful B2B and why market engineering is a skill every executive needs. Listen in to learn how you can build your company and category to scale. “Venture capital is a fairly interesting term or phrase. Because what  Continue Reading »