Ben Horowitz, founder of leading venture firm Andreessen Horowitz and a successful entrepreneur prior to that…
Nic BrisbourneAugust 6, 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
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
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…
The European Investment Fund (EIF) is an EU institution that exists to stimulate the startup…
Every company has to strike a balance between focusing on being great at what they do…
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Managing Partner at Forward Partners – on a mission to invest in the UK’s best eCommerce companies.