When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for…
Nic BrisbourneJuly 8, 2019
Ben Horowitz, founder of leading venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and a successful entrepreneur prior to that…
Nic BrisbourneAugust 6, 2018
We all know that things get difficult when someone wants something too much. You might…
Nic BrisbourneJune 4, 2018
Earlier this week a friend was asking me whether her fundraising chances would be improved…
Nic BrisbourneMay 29, 2018
Let me start by saying that I'm a massive believer in the power of metrics.…
Nic BrisbourneMay 3, 2018
The blogosphere has transformed entrepreneurship. Twenty years ago there were precious few resources available for…
One fear I heard expressed a lot post Brexit is that the London will lose…
This chart (taken from a recent post by First Republic’s Samir Kaji, data from leading…
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…
BRIEF BIO
Managing Partner at Forward Partners – on a mission to invest in the UK’s best eCommerce companies.