See below for a good description of what we like to see in deals at…
Nic BrisbourneJanuary 10, 2020
A couple of weeks back I did an interview with Abadesi Osunsade from Product Hunt.…
Nic BrisbourneSeptember 8, 2019
When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for…
Nic BrisbourneJuly 8, 2019
Between 2006 and 2016, I wrote something on this blog almost every working day. It…
Nic BrisbourneJuly 1, 2019
Ben Horowitz, founder of leading venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and a successful entrepreneur prior to that…
Nic BrisbourneAugust 6, 2018
I’ve just read Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal, a book lots of people seem to be…
This chart, from First Round Capital’s recent post Leslie’s Compass: A Framework for Go-To-Market Strategy is…
For about three weeks I’ve been meaning to write about the amazing success that is Amazon….
Around nine years ago I read Nicholas Taleb’s seminal texts The Black Swan (2007) and…
I love the idea of Magic Leap and wish them every success in the world. Who…
This is a chart from Atomico’s 2016 State of the Nation report. As a UK investor and citizen…
Most VCs will say that to evaluate deals they look at the market size, the…
Last night at FPLive I was chatting with an entrepreneur called Nick who has just…
I first came across the phrase “strong convictions, weakly held” through Marc Andreessen, but a…
As the world becomes increasingly mobile centric, we still don’t have a great solution for…
I just read a New York Times article that led with the sentence “Deep inside…
According to the IAB, US digital advertising revenues grew 19% from H1 2015 to H1…
The charts above are both from the new KPMP/CB Insights Venture Pulse Report. There’s a lot…
McKinsey have just released a report which predicts: that the global revenue pool from car data…
BRIEF BIO
Managing Partner at Forward Partners – on a mission to invest in the UK’s best eCommerce companies.