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Venture Capital

Interview I did about Forward Partners for Soldo

See below for a good description of what we like to see in deals at…
Nic Brisbourne
Nic BrisbourneJanuary 10, 2020
Mindfulness

Two ways meditation improves insight

I'm a massive believer in the power of meditation and I'm far from alone. These…
Nic Brisbourne
Nic BrisbourneDecember 4, 2019
MindfulnessVenture Capital

Podcast on the future of VC and how mindfulness can help founders

A couple of weeks back I did an interview with Abadesi Osunsade from Product Hunt.…
Nic Brisbourne
Nic BrisbourneSeptember 8, 2019
Venture Capital

Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for…
Nic Brisbourne
Nic BrisbourneJuly 8, 2019
Announcement

The Equity Kicker returns – now writing about the future of VC and meditation

Between 2006 and 2016, I wrote something on this blog almost every working day. It…
Nic Brisbourne
Nic BrisbourneJuly 1, 2019
Startup general interest

When to be lean

Ben Horowitz, founder of leading venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and a successful entrepreneur prior to that…
Nic Brisbourne
Nic BrisbourneAugust 6, 2018
Jan 10 2018
Love12

Sometimes best practice isn’t best

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest One Comment

The blogosphere has transformed entrepreneurship. Twenty years ago there were precious few resources available for…

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Dec 22 2017
Love12

UK VCs growing faster than European counterparts

By Nic Brisbourne Venture Capital One Comment

One fear I heard expressed a lot post Brexit is that the London will lose…

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Dec 04 2017
Love17

VCs and our quest to invest in “home runs”

By Nic Brisbourne Venture Capital 2 Comments

This chart (taken from a recent post by First Republic’s Samir Kaji, data from leading…

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Nov 24 2017
Love18

Enjoying the journey

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest No Comments

Two weeks ago I wrote about our Skill and Pace value. Another of our four…

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Nov 14 2017
Love18

The Dawn of ConstrucTech

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest 4 Comments

You might have seen that the week before last Balfour Beatty (here) and Mace (here)…

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Nov 06 2017
Love16

The pursuit of skill and pace

By Nic Brisbourne Forward Partners 2 Comments

Here at Forward Partners we are going through a process of rethinking our values. We…

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Sep 25 2017
Love14

When did tech become a dirty word?

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest 2 Comments

The world is turning against tech. Silicon Valley is in danger of becoming the new…

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Sep 22 2017
Love14

Satya Nadella owns his mistakes – impressive

By Nic Brisbourne Microsoft No Comments

From a recent Fast Company article about Satya: Invited to participate in a Q&A at…

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Sep 20 2017
Love8

US and UK entrepreneurs suffer equally from ‘fear of failure’

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest No Comments

This chart is from the UK government’s recently published Patient Capital Review. I’m publishing it…

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Sep 19 2017
Love8

Forward Partners Code of Ethics Regarding Sexual Harassment

By Nic Brisbourne Uncategorized No Comments

Earlier in the year, there were a significant number of victims who came forward to…

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Sep 04 2017
Love8

Board meetings: Avoiding triviality

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest 3 Comments

Getting value out of board meetings is tough. Lots of VCs have written posts with…

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Aug 08 2017
Love9

Evolving our investment strategy

By Nic Brisbourne Announcement, Entrepreneurs, London, Startup general interest, Strategy, Venture Capital No Comments

This is a long post (1,900 words). For those of you who are time poor…

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Jul 28 2017
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Google’s 5 Traits of Great Teams

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest One Comment

As you may know Google has done an almost obsessive amount of research into what…

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Jul 21 2017
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Ten minutes mindfulness a day makes you a better leader

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest One Comment

Want to see the confirmation bias at work? Then read on. I just read Spending…

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BRIEF BIO

Managing Partner at Forward Partners – on a mission to invest in the UK’s best eCommerce companies.

ABOUT FORWARD PARTNERS

Forward Partners helps ecommerce founders from raw idea through to Series A with a combination of investment, proven methodologies and office space. Our team knows how to build startups. Drawing on experience gained in companies such as Facebook, Mind Candy and HouseTrip, we’ve developed tools and services to help entrepreneurs execute with speed and focus.

ABOUT ‘OFFICE HOURS’

We run regular Office Hours for solo founders of ecommerce companies at the idea stage.

More details here.

ABOUT ‘FP LIVE’

We run regular events and workshops, hosting world-class speakers and offering practical training sessions with our team of startup experts.

You can find details of previous events here.

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