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The title to this blog post is a quote from Tom Evslin. It was new to me this morning (and I hadn’t heard of Tom either) but I immediately loved it. Firstly it captures the importance of faith, belief and perseverance in life generally and more specifically to startups. We all love stories about [...] Thirty-fourth in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series here, [...] Thirty third in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series [...] Roger Ehrenberg of IA Ventures has a thoughtful post up today about VCs adding value to their portfolio companies. Firstly he talks about the importance for a VC to know in their own minds whether they are a firm that seeks to make money by clever stock picking alone, or through a combination of [...] Earlier this week Bryce Roberts of O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures wrote a post about VCs over analysing market size and then passing on deals. His point is that if a VC hasn’t got comfortable on market size within two meetings then they never will and the entrepreneur shouldn’t spend more time with them. The post [...] Twenty-ninth in a series of weekly posts by myself and Nicholas Lovell of Gamesbrief which answer the fifty questions you should ask before raising venture capital. We expect the series to run for a year after which we will collate the posts into a book. You can find the rationale behind the series here, [...] Yesterday I did an interview with Aleks at the Guardian offices near Kings Cross which they put live here on the Guardian website last night. Aleks is a good interviewer and we had a lively chat covering a lot of the basics about how venture capital and startup financing work. My bit starts at [...] The world is a chaotic place right now with riots in London, biggest ever one day falls on American stock markets, debt downgrades in the US and unprecedented steps from the European Central Bank to bail out the peripheral Eurozone economies all happening in the last week. The catalyst for these events has been [...] For a little amusement this Thursday check this video from Luma Partners which has a parody investment pitch from a DSP company (DSP stands for ‘demand side platform’ and is a category of Adtech business that was super hot last year). I love the irony that even though no investor wants to invest in [...] There are two US VCs whose blogs I follow religiously, are perhaps my biggest source of inspiration in writing The Equity Kicker, and who I often quote here. The first is Brad Feld and the second is Fred Wilson, and yesterday Fred posted a write up of Brad’s latest book Be Smarter than your [...] |
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