Lean financing
I recently gave a talk on lean financing and thought I would share the presentation here on the blog as well. Lean financing is a powerful way to limit dilution for founders but one has to be careful to not miss out on growth opportunities. Sometimes founders are too focused on keeping a big piece of […]
Reinvesting your capital
A big part of Silicon Valley’s success as a startup ecosystem can be linked to a continuous recycling of capital: entrepreneurs who made made money selling their company become angels, angel investors and VCs take profits from one deal and invest those in more deals. With tech ecosystems getting more and more important in places outside of […]
Announcing Version One Ventures
I am excited to announce today the launch of Version One Ventures, a new $15 million micro-VC fund. Version One will back outstanding web and mobile entrepreneurs across North-America with $250,000 to $500,000 investments in Seed and Series A rounds. The fund builds on my successes with over 35 angel investments which include six exits – among them […]
Hiring for Startups 101 – hiring process
[This is the second post of the “Hiring for Startups 101” blog series] Once you have a full funnel, it is really important that you move candidates through an efficient and effective hiring process. You probably heard a few times of the start-up mantra of “hire slow, fire fast” but I actually disagree with that […]
Hiring for Startups 101 – filling the funnel
[This is the first post of the “Hiring for Startups 101” blog series] I often hear from startups that they don’t see enough (quality) candidates for their open positions and most of the times this is largely due to their passive approach to filing the hiring funnel. Posting ads on Craiglist and other job boards […]