How to evaluate launch success?
For every start-up, launch day is THE big day. The day you have been working for over weeks and months, the day that you are finally showing your “baby” to the world. And while you are excited to get feed-back from users and customers, you are also asking yourself how success at launch day looks […]
Who Will Win the Fast Growing Online-to-Offline Sector?
Linking local commerce to the Web has emerged as one of the fastest growing sectors in today’s Web economy. Each day we see a new startup in the online-to offline space, with each player wanting to change how consumers find and pay for services, and tap into the trillions of dollars spent in the local, […]
Focus your board meetings on the future, not the past
What do your board meetings look like? Do investors focus on their BlackBerries and iPhones while the CEO plods through every slide in the deck? I’ve sat through (and run) more board meetings than I can remember. And the truth is, most board meetings aren’t as effective as they should be. When it comes to […]
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 […]