A Podgorica venture studio connects Balkan founders with local capital and overseas markets. Its most useful lesson is what has to happen before anyone boards the plane.
Susan Amat built an accelerator that let founders keep their equity. The bigger business lesson came when Venture Hive tried to sell accountability to other accelerators.
A delayed factory campus became a citywide startup system: one front door for founders, scaleups, investors and corporations - and a useful lesson in how a city can turn real estate into an operating network.