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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
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…
Regular readers will know that for me the rising pace of change is one of…
I was talking with an old friend on Friday about the fundraising pitch for his…
I’ve been asked how to analyse cohorts by a couple of companies recently, so I thought…
I love it when complicated things are made simple and this Guardian animation does exactly that…
I just read a review of a new Wiley book Design a better business which argues that:…
When I read in David Kelnar’s ‘Respect your elders’ and five other powerful trends shaping consumer…
I’ve finally got round to reading Andy Grove‘s High Output Management, widely regarded as a…
‘Flow’ is the almost magical state of extreme creativity and productivity. Most often associated with artists…
I just read an old post by Nir Eyal about The psychology of sports: How…
I read two great posts advising founders on fundraising this morning. The first was a…
The cue for this post was Harry Stebbing’s 20MinuteVC interview with David Pakman, the partner…
In November 2013 I saw the headline Five cognitive distortions of people who get stuff…
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Managing Partner at Forward Partners – on a mission to invest in the UK’s best eCommerce companies.