I’ve written a lot about the fundraising process. Of late (however), I have begun advising founders to pull the plug on their fundraise. It is an emotionally sensitive topic for founders. It requires you to acknowledge the failure of a mission that you have put your heart & soul into, and an endeavor that would
Every Monday, I sit with my team to review the funding activity of the previous week. Then, I pick out a few companies that I would have loved to invest in or find founders doing similar things from that list. Here is my rationale behind this weekly exercise. I am back with the weekly picks! Last
I got COVID last week, it felt like a nasty strain of flu, and after 5 days, I was at full strength, back to my normal levels of stamina. Even when we look at numbers globally, the time has come for all of us to look beyond COVID. https://twitter.com/tomaspueyo/status/1483198811547869185 Therefore, the focus of governments, businesses, and
Every Monday, I sit with my team to review the funding activity of the previous week. Then, I pick out a few companies that I would have loved to invest in or find founders doing similar things from that list. Here is my rationale behind this weekly exercise. After a week of recuperating from COVID19,
Every Monday, I sit with my team to review the funding activity of the previous week. Then, I pick out a few companies that I would have loved to invest in or find founders doing similar things from that list. Here is my rationale behind this weekly exercise. I am back with the weekly picks!   Last week 27 start-ups
A common observation made by fund managers, limited partners, and (interestingly) journalists on the 2 year-long startup boom is the speed of some of these deal closures – primarily by skimping (or skipping) due diligence on deals before investing. I regularly get advice from well-wishers within and outside our offices to reduce the due
Behind every successful fundraise is a strong narrative. That is the honest answer to a question that investors repeatedly ask when they get bewildered by sky-high valuation and moonshot venture ideas. However, the founder’s ability to weave a strong narrative about their venture elevates its valuation from being based on its fundamental value to being based on the future potential. I’ve always promoted fundraising as a sales activity versus a financial activity because the result that
I believe that founders are super-humans. Founders take an incredible financial, emotional, mental, and (unfortunately) health risk to create the change that they want to see in the world. They must display a great belief in the incredible while consistently staring at the inevitable. They must wear so many faces that they may not even remember what the original face looked like. Founders, big or small, have an incredible amount of power, disrupting
