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One insight. One question. One opportunity.

One idea from our work with family businesses, every second Thursday: an insight to think with, a question to take into your next board meeting, and one step you can act on.

Heritage, Identity or Strategy?

What business are you actually in?

Is the way you describe your business a definition you still set on purpose – or one you inherited and stopped questioning?

Family Business & AI

Discover why people, not structures, drive innovation and AI.

Across the last few years – who in your business actually noticed the things that mattered before they became urgent? And if that person left tomorrow, would anyone be looking in their place?

M&A Calculations for Venturing

Learn to value new revenue streams for a sustainable future.

If your core keeps eroding for the next five years, what is the new revenue stream you wish you'd started funding today – and have you ever priced what it's actually worth?

Europe’s Deep Tech Wave

Understand how deep tech waves impact your value chain and why you need to place bets with your innovation portfolio.

Which of these fields reaches your value chain first – and do you know that, or do you assume it?

Growth Strategies for Your Venture or Your Core

Legacy companies don't have a growth problem. They have an experimentation problem.

How many growth experiments is your company running this quarter?

August 20, 2026

How to Build a Portfolio of 130 Ventures

The Mulliez family case study.

If someone in your family wanted to start a company next year, would they do it inside your structure or outside it?

September 3, 2026

The Family Incubator

How family businesses can renew and grow through corporate venturing.

Is your family business managing innovation like an investor or like an operator?

September 17, 2026

Innovation and the Board

A board cannot approve its way into a new business. Here is what it should do instead.

Who in your company can spend budget on a new business idea without asking the board?

October 1, 2026

The Cost of Starting Late

Renewal is easiest to fund when it feels least urgent. By the time the pressure arrives, some of the best options are gone.

Which stage is your core in right now: coach, doctor or fire brigade?