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Startup Advice
Believe Them
July 25, 2021
The Empty Sack Of VC Arbitrage
July 20, 2021
Agreed, Jony Ive
May 14, 2021
I Was 10 Years Ahead…Or More Alarmingly, The Greater-Fools Were 10 Years Behind
February 1, 2020
You Have A Soul
August 10, 2019
How To Evaluate Hiring A Startup CEO
April 2, 2019
Is Startup Success Inevitable Under A New System?
March 10, 2019
The Failure Rate In A Startup Seems Extremely High. What Can VC Do Differently...
June 10, 2018
What Is The Best Way To Find Out If You Are Ready For A...
May 24, 2018
What Do Entrepreneurs Dislike About Entrepreneurship?
May 13, 2018
Letters To A Young Contrarian: Calling All Entrepreneurs To Read This Book
May 10, 2018
Why Should Someone Share A Business Idea When There Is The Fear That Someone...
May 7, 2018
How Do I Innovate?
May 2, 2018
Why Are Angel Investors So Difficult To Find?
May 1, 2018
How Do You Determine A Company’s Optimal Capital Structure?
May 1, 2018
Where Can I Find A Database Of VCs?
April 29, 2018
How Do You Conduct Due Diligence On An Investor?
April 25, 2018
What Is The Best Way To Improve Competition In Modern Capitalism?
April 20, 2018
How Should Someone Approach VCs For The First Time Without Knowing Anyone Or Having...
April 9, 2018
There Are Some VCs That Are Willing To Invest In Our Company, How Can...
April 3, 2018
How Can I Come Up With Brilliant But Simple Ideas Of Innovation And Invention?
April 1, 2018
How Long Should An Entrepreneur Wait Before Closing A Failing Venture?
March 28, 2018
How Do You Go About Pitching A Brilliant New Product To Investors?
March 26, 2018
Is A Start-Up More Likely To Get Funded By An Investor If They Are...
March 21, 2018
Are There VC firms Out There That Help Solo Founders Build A Team If...
March 21, 2018
Why Is Being An Entrepreneur For Everyone?
February 5, 2018
What Is The Difference Between Private Equity, Angel Investors, And Venture Capitalists?
January 31, 2018
What Do Investors Usually Expect In Return For Growth Capital For A Private SMB...
January 30, 2018
Where Can I Find A Good Entrepreneur Mentor?
January 23, 2018
Do Angels Consider A Lower Downside Risk A Positive When Investing, Or Do They...
January 19, 2018
Which VC Firms Are The Best To Work With?
January 17, 2018
How Can We Capture More Business From The Competitors?
January 17, 2018
What Are Things That Annoy You When Entrepreneurs Pitch To You Angels/VC?
January 16, 2018
How Can I Realize My Startup Idea If I Don’t Have Enough Expertise In...
January 11, 2018
What Can Be The Reason(s) That VCs/Angel Investors Aren’t Interested In My Profitable Business...
December 31, 2017
What Do I Need To Send To My Venture Capital Firm? They Said I...
December 30, 2017
What Are The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Taking VC Or Angel Money Versus Customer...
December 27, 2017
How Long Should A Good Venture Capital Proposal Be?
November 30, 2017
How Do I Restart Startup After Failure (I’m Discouraged)?
October 10, 2017
How I Know You Are Not An Entrepreneur
August 29, 2017
Why Would I Want To Raise Funding Through ICO vs. Equity Crowdfunding, Venture Capital,...
August 6, 2017
How Do Venture Capitalists Find Companies To Fund?
August 3, 2017
If A Company Is Currently Valued At $1 Million, What Would Its Pre-Money Valuation...
July 22, 2017
I Do Not Understand The VC And Investment Side Of Business. Does That Mean...
July 16, 2017
Is It Considered Poor Form To Ask A VC About Another VC When Doing...
June 15, 2017
Should I Trust Advice From A Late Stage Private Equity Firm When I’m Still...
June 3, 2017
Why Are Venture Capitalists Hesitant To Enter Into Agreements With LLCs?
May 28, 2017
As An Angel Investor Or VC, Do You Prefer A Founder Saying He Has...
May 19, 2017
Do Startup Companies Have An Absolute Decision Or Control Over Where The Money Of...
April 20, 2017
How Many Venture Capitalists Are There In The United States?
March 31, 2017
How Specific Or Flexible Is A VC Portfolio?
March 22, 2017
What Percentage Of Ideas Submitted To Venture Capitalists Are Rubbish?
March 21, 2017
Which Of The Two (Angel Investment And Venture Capital) Can Give Startups A Bigger...
March 15, 2017
What Effect Does Taking Venture Capital Have On A Company’s Percent Chance Of Success...
March 9, 2017
In Your Opinion, What Are The Best Business Models?
March 5, 2017
What Exactly Caused The Dot-Com Bubble To Burst?
March 5, 2017
Is Entrepreneurship For Everybody?
February 17, 2017
Is It A Good Idea To Reach Out To A Competitor’s VC Or Angel...
February 17, 2017
How Should Entrepreneurs Approach The Valuation Question?
February 16, 2017
Are Venture Capital Finders Or Brokers Frowned Upon?
February 16, 2017
How Much Control Should An Investor Have Over Your Business?
December 23, 2016
What Are The Best Guides To Raising Capital?
December 18, 2016
I Am An Entrepreneur By Heart. Should I take The Offer Of A Fortune...
December 16, 2016
Who Are The Most Successful VCs And VCs Companies In London?
December 14, 2016
How Does An Entrepreneur Choose A Venture Capitalist To Participate In His/Her Company?
December 13, 2016
Is Venture Capital Expensive?
December 11, 2016
What Is The Best Way To Value Your Company Without Getting A Professional Valuation?
December 11, 2016
Why Are VCs Interested In The Variable Cost / Operating Expenses Ratio And Why...
December 10, 2016
What Does A Venture Capital Scout Do The Whole Day?
December 8, 2016
What Is Innovative Thinking?
November 17, 2016
Is It Good To Study Economics If I Want To Be An Entrepreneur?
November 16, 2016
Is Technology Killing Our Capacity For Perspective?
May 21, 2016
VC Or Customer, Which Way Should You Go?
May 20, 2016
Is The Tech Bubble Bursting Soon? Should Startups Be More Self-Reliant?
May 19, 2016
What Are The Pros And Cons Of Organic Growth vs VC Driven Growth?
May 19, 2016
Why Are Successful Startups So Rare?
May 18, 2016
Is Dave McClure Correct When He Says “Most Venture Capitalists Are Lazy And Not...
May 11, 2016
What Are Some Reasons For An Entrepreneur To Reject Venture Capital Investments?
May 10, 2016
Is 50% Too Much To Ask When Co-Founding A Company?
April 22, 2016
Explain the importance of the use-of-proceeds
October 7, 2015
How To Build A Sustainable Company
February 10, 2015
How To Fix Twitter
January 8, 2015
Why Are VCs So Negative?
September 16, 2014
Losing VC Money Is Not Our Biggest Problem
August 11, 2014
Triple Threat Founders
July 20, 2014
Has Venture Capital Changed?
July 15, 2014
Data Leads To Depravity
July 7, 2014
The Double Entendre of Silicon Valley Tourism
June 11, 2014
How Technology Must Grow Up
February 28, 2014
The Problem With Social
January 28, 2014
Don’t Copy Silicon Valley
September 26, 2013
KPCB Culpa Tua
May 10, 2013
KPCB Mea Culpa
March 6, 2013
Are VCs Still Relevant?
January 20, 2013
The Evolution Of Evolution
October 15, 2012
The Evolution Of Innovation
October 2, 2012
Venturing In Silicon Valley Versus China
July 2, 2012
Venture Capital: The Enemy Is Us
May 8, 2012
Debt Financing In Startups
January 13, 2012
Marketing A Product With Less Than 50% Conversion Rate Is Self-Induced Cannibalism
January 3, 2012
The Future Of Photo Editing
January 3, 2012
Closed is better than open computing
October 31, 2011
Lead Or Get The F*k Out
October 24, 2011
Deep Hindsight Does Not Extrapolate To Foresight To Break The Norm
October 21, 2011
LightZone Is Dead
October 13, 2011
Not Every Developer Is An Entrepreneur
October 13, 2011
How Steve Jobs Proved Venture Capital Wrong
October 5, 2011
Interview On Innovation And Venture Capital
September 15, 2011
Fake Tits And Money
August 23, 2011
Subprime Venture Capital
June 9, 2011
When Angels Collude And Collide
March 7, 2011
Avoid Investor Noise
January 13, 2011
Why Entrepreneurs Should Not Follow An Investor’s Compass
April 8, 2010
Why VC Is Such A Bad Date
February 25, 2010
How To Set And Ask For Valuations
September 15, 2009
Idiot CEOs
May 11, 2009
Don’t Take The Funded Serious
March 31, 2009
How Not To Raise Money, My Real World Examples
March 24, 2009
Introducing The VC blacklist: 217 And Counting
February 24, 2009
How To Spot Subprime VC
January 8, 2009
This Investor Is Just Not That Into You
December 16, 2008
Three Rules For Successful Consumer Technology Companies
December 8, 2008
Which Investors To Avoid
December 8, 2008
The Google Argument
August 7, 2008
A Marketplace Connects Unrestricted Supply With Unrestricted Demand Through A Transparent Exchange
July 28, 2008
The Remarkable Resemblance Between Innovation And Photography
June 17, 2008
Don’t Listen To Customers
June 6, 2008
The Sweet Taste Of Success
May 18, 2008
The Delicacy Of European Investments
April 24, 2008
How Developer Platforms – Should – Drive Marketplaces
March 24, 2008
Marketplace Rules: Look, Do Not Touch
March 16, 2008
10 Fundraising Lessons Learned Over 10 Years
February 28, 2008
Great Businesses Don’t Look At Support As A Cost Center But As A Way...
December 30, 2007
Develop An Experience, Not A Product
December 13, 2007
Pairing Chefs And Cooks In Technology
December 5, 2007
I Have A Dream…
January 8, 2007
We Must Create Innovation With Lasting Beneficial impact To society
August 29, 2006
The Industry-Analyst Cookbook
August 11, 2006
The Socio-Economic Value Of A Company Is Dependent On The Economics It Deploys
September 2, 2005
No Long Tail Without A Torso
June 24, 2005
Not Everyone Can Be An Entrepreneur, But An Entrepreneur Can Come From Anywhere.
May 5, 2005
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