{"id":15981,"date":"2018-12-30T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/2023-en\/bmt-venture-insights-4-18-momentum-and-nonlinearities\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:02:23","slug":"bmt-venture-insights-4-18-momentum-and-nonlinearities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/2018-en\/bmt-venture-insights-4-18-momentum-and-nonlinearities\/","title":{"rendered":"bm|t Venture Insights 4\/18: Momentum and Nonlinearities"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the exam\u00adple men\u00adtioned above, the mar\u00adble that more quickly trans\u00adformed its poten\u00adtial energy into kinetic energy was able to carry its gained momen\u00adtum through the flat sec\u00adtion and won the race. We quickly drew par\u00adal\u00adlels to the busi\u00adness world and the impor\u00adtance of momen\u00adtum and non-lin\u00adear approaches to reach\u00ading the ulti\u00admate goal. To para\u00adphrase Isaac New\u00adton, busi\u00adnesses at rest tend to stay at rest, and busi\u00adnesses in motion tend to stay in motion<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

While momen\u00adtum plays a crit\u00adi\u00adcal role for all busi\u00adnesses, startup momen\u00adtum<\/strong> is per\u00adhaps the most inter\u00adest\u00ading phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnon, as a small group of pas\u00adsion\u00adate peo\u00adple is tasked with not just keep\u00ading a busi\u00adness mov\u00ading but start\u00ading it from a stand\u00adstill point of zero iner\u00adtia. Big vision. High poten\u00adtial energy. No kinetic energy.<\/p>\n

Quickly gen\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading kinetic energy is essen\u00adtial for most star\u00adtups not only to grow and pros\u00adper but also to avoid com\u00adpletely los\u00ading momen\u00adtum when the busi\u00adness encoun\u00adters the inevitable bumps in the road. Many strate\u00adgies and tac\u00adtics are employed to cre\u00adate this momen\u00adtum: hir\u00ading more key employ\u00adees than the cur\u00adrent busi\u00adness size might war\u00adrant; sign\u00ading up beta cus\u00adtomers at low, zero, or neg\u00ada\u00adtive mar\u00adgins in order to accel\u00ader\u00adate learn\u00ading and mar\u00adket accep\u00adtance; engag\u00ading in bold part\u00adner\u00adships or acqui\u00adsi\u00adtions to trans\u00adform a tech\u00adnol\u00adogy offer\u00ading; rais\u00ading more cap\u00adi\u00adtal than a lin\u00adear tra\u00adjec\u00adtory would require, etc. We at bm|t greatly admire entre\u00adpre\u00adneurs who can trans\u00adform energy and cre\u00adate busi\u00adness momen\u00adtum<\/strong>, and we aim to play a sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant role in cat\u00adalyz\u00ading the needed momentum.<\/p>\n

We believe the key is rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00ading when lin\u00adearly boot\u00adstrap\u00adping a busi\u00adness is indeed riskier than con\u00adsciously cre\u00adat\u00ading (indeed some\u00adtimes forc\u00ading) momen\u00adtum \u2013 maybe even more than one can com\u00adfort\u00adably con\u00adtrol. Of course, each busi\u00adness is unique and the art surely lies in know\u00ading when is the right time to gen\u00ader\u00adate greater momen\u00adtum \u2013 cer\u00adtainly one wants to be on an expo\u00adnen\u00adtial curve, not just falling off a cliff. We, at bm|t, believe we can help young busi\u00adnesses prop\u00aderly time and plan their accel\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions<\/strong> in order to have the great\u00adest prob\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adity of being on the right growth curve.<\/p>\n

Like entre\u00adpre\u00adneurs, investors can also cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adize on the phe\u00adnom\u00adena of momen\u00adtum and non\u00adlin\u00adear\u00adity. In 2018, bm|t worked dili\u00adgently to trans\u00adform the pow\u00ader\u00adful 2017 events of fayteq\u2019s sale and InflaRx\u2019s Nas\u00addaq IPO into broad-based energy for all investee-part\u00adners and Th\u00fcrin\u00adgen. The results were out\u00adstand\u00ading<\/strong>, as our investee-part\u00adners raised over 100 Mio. EUR in cap\u00adi\u00adtal, and we were able to gain a record num\u00adber of 16 new investee-part\u00adners. You can read fur\u00adther about the strong momen\u00adtum in 2018 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before pre\u00adsent\u00ading the quarter\u2019s invest\u00adment activ\u00adity and other sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant news, we would like to offer a big THANK YOU to our great investee-part\u00adners and co-investors. Work\u00ading with such bril\u00adliant, moti\u00advated, vision\u00adary peo\u00adple is the fuel that pro\u00adpels us forward!<\/em><\/p>\n

Your bm|t Team<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the exam\u00adple men\u00adtioned above, the mar\u00adble that more quickly trans\u00adformed its poten\u00adtial energy into kinetic energy was able to carry its gained momen\u00adtum through the flat sec\u00adtion and won the race. We quickly drew par\u00adal\u00adlels to the busi\u00adness world and the impor\u00adtance of momen\u00adtum and non-lin\u00adear approaches to reach\u00ading the ulti\u00admate goal. To para\u00adphrase Isaac [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,147],"tags":[253],"class_list":["post-15981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insights","category-2018-en","tag-insights-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bm-t.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}