Friday, February 20, 2026
Market Intelligence for Entrepreneurship Professionals
What's happening: Royal Academy of Engineering’s Enterprise Hub crowned UK’s top accelerator
The Enterprise Hub, launched in 2013, was named the leading UK accelerator for spin‑outs and startups in a joint Statista, Financial Times and Sifted analysis. The ranking considered alumni feedback, investor and academic recommendations, and post‑program success, with the Hub having supported over 600 founders to date.
Also developing:

Adding big blocks of SRAM to collections of AI tensor engines, or better still, a waferscale collection of such engines, turbocharges AI inference, as has been shown time and again by AI upstarts Cerebras Systems, SambaNova Systems (which Intel is rumored to have taken a run at late last year), Groq (just eaten by Nvidia for $20 billion), and Graphcore (eaten by SoftBank for $600 million a year and a half ago) as they compare against GPUs from Nvidia and AMD. … Taalas Etches AI Models Onto Transistors To Rocket Boost Inference was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
The Next Platform

As global venture markets continue to rebalance, the Baltics are emerging as one of Europe’s more resilient early-stage ecosystems – and in 2025, Lithuania has taken the regional lead. According to ...
Tech.eu

When I tell people I live in Berlin at startup events abroad, I often receive a bad reaction, especially from investors. Many people associate Berlin with its heyday of Rocket Internet and see it as ...
Tech.eu
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I asked Bret a question that a lot of people are thinking about lately since he's as equipped as anyone in the world to answer: "Does a system of record have a place in the world if nobody logs into it?" https://t.co/cJlj24od8o
Helping competitors sounds wrong. Many businesses guard every move, yet rivals who share leads, split costs, and collaborate often win more deals. Coopetition drives shared R&D, opens new markets, and creates referrals when demand spikes. You keep your edge while growing the pie. Who in your space should be a partner, not an enemy?
Worst ways to build wealth - thinking a $100M valuation means you have $100M - raising money. period - adding features for 5 years instead of admitting your product sucks - telling yourself "we just need more time" at year 7 - calling yourself a CEO but asking a board for permission Best ways to build wealth - bootstrap to $10M ARR and own every cent - pay yourself more than your VC-backed competitors raised - build something so lean that AI can run it for a week (or forever) - have the freedom to move to Aspen and ski on Fridays - never ask permission from anyone ever again Study the founders who got called “not ambitious enough” and ended up more successful than everyone who said it (like me)