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Nic Brisbourne's view from London

on technology and startups
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
Mar 01 2017
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Courage and facing up to failure

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest No Comments

I’ve just read Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, a book lots of people seem to be…

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Feb 07 2017
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Nailing go-to-market strategy

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest 3 Comments

This chart, from First Round Capital’s recent post Leslie’s Compass: A Framework for Go-To-Market Strategy is…

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Feb 02 2017
Love1

Amazon: A true success story

By Nic Brisbourne Amazon No Comments

For about three weeks I’ve been meaning to write about the amazing success that is Amazon….

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Jan 11 2017
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“Don’t run for trains”

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest One Comment

Around nine years ago I read Nicholas Taleb’s seminal texts The Black Swan (2007) and…

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Dec 22 2016
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Long on vision, short on execution?

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest One Comment

I love the idea of Magic Leap and wish them every success in the world. Who…

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Dec 06 2016
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UK: Tech talent remains

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest No Comments

This is a chart from Atomico’s 2016 State of the Nation report. As a UK investor and citizen…

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Nov 28 2016
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Pre-seed investments work best when there’s a clear plan for short term value creation

By Nic Brisbourne Forward Partners, Startup general interest One Comment

Most VCs will say that to evaluate deals they look at the market size, the…

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Nov 25 2016
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Fear of failure can be a good thing, absence of courage never is

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest 4 Comments

Last night at FPLive I was chatting with an entrepreneur called Nick who has just…

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Nov 18 2016
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Strong convictions, weakly held

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest No Comments

I first came across the phrase “strong convictions, weakly held” through Marc Andreessen, but a…

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Nov 16 2016
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Browsers, bots and unlocking mobile e-commerce

By Nic Brisbourne Ecommerce, Mobile One Comment

As the world becomes increasingly mobile centric, we still don’t have a great solution for…

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Nov 09 2016
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In defence of liquidation preferences

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest 2 Comments

I just read a New York Times article that led with the sentence “Deep inside…

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Nov 02 2016
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Facebook, Google and their dominance of digital marketing

By Nic Brisbourne Advertising, Facebook, Google No Comments

According to the IAB, US digital advertising revenues grew 19% from H1 2015 to H1…

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Oct 21 2016
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VC: the new normal

By Nic Brisbourne Venture Capital No Comments

The charts above are both from the new KPMP/CB Insights Venture Pulse Report. There’s a lot…

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Oct 20 2016
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Automotive data – believe the hype?

By Nic Brisbourne Startup general interest One Comment

McKinsey have just released a report which predicts: that the global revenue pool from car data…

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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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