We all know that things get difficult when someone wants something too much. You might…
Nic BrisbourneJune 4, 2018
Let me start by saying that I'm a massive believer in the power of metrics.…
Nic BrisbourneMay 3, 2018
In our experience, structured customer development work is right up there amongst the most valuable…
Nic BrisbourneMarch 26, 2018
Max Niederhofer recently published this chart showing European exits. As you can see there's been impressive…
Nic BrisbourneMarch 19, 2018
This week I've been at the SuperReturn/SuperVenture conference in Berlin. It's the biggest European gathering…
Nic BrisbourneMarch 5, 2018
Two weeks ago I wrote about our Skill and Pace value. Another of our four…
You might have seen that the week before last Balfour Beatty (here) and Mace (here)…
Here at Forward Partners we are going through a process of rethinking our values. We…
The world is turning against tech. Silicon Valley is in danger of becoming the new…
From a recent Fast Company article about Satya: Invited to participate in a Q&A at…
This chart is from the UK government’s recently published Patient Capital Review. I’m publishing it…
Earlier in the year, there were a significant number of victims who came forward to…
Getting value out of board meetings is tough. Lots of VCs have written posts with…
This is a long post (1,900 words). For those of you who are time poor…
As you may know Google has done an almost obsessive amount of research into what…
Want to see the confirmation bias at work? Then read on. I just read Spending…
This growth equation is brilliant in it’s simplicity. I love that it forces the focus…
I just read Andrew Chen’s Growth is getting hard from intensive competition, consolidation, and saturation. His argument…
I’ve been thinking a lot about authenticity recently. The first thing to say is that…
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