Jean de La Rochebrochard
Jean de La Rochebrochard

Jean de La Rochebrochard

In search for brilliant heartful minds to empower | http://about.me/jeandlr

Editor of Kima Ventures and Venture Prose
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Best Practices for Board Meetings

A couple of years ago, I have published a template to run efficient board meetings: How to run great board meetings. It remains valid…

Sep 18, 2018 · 4 min read
Sep 18, 2018 · 4 min read

Good Grounds

A set of basic principles for leaders, managers & entrepreneurs

Jan 3 · 1 min read

Social Regression

I’ve just posted this new post on Substack >> https://2lr.substack.com/p/social-regression

Dec 30, 2019 · 1 min read

Moving to Substack

It’s time for a change, follow me there :)

Dec 22, 2019 · 2 min read

Signals

Forewords

Dec 16, 2019 · 6 min read

APIs eat Travel 🔌 Our investment in Impala 🏩

Impala just announced its $11M Series A round led by Stride and Xavier Niel, with the participation of Insight Partners Co-Founder Jerry…

Oct 2, 2019 · 4 min read

How to build tailor-made habits

A zone is defined by its nature (what), its environment (where), its purpose (why), its participants (who), its means (how). the more…

Sep 3, 2019 · 7 min read

Irresistible to fund

People ^ Venture ^ Capital

Jun 18, 2019 · 3 min read

0 to 10 Billion

When I joined Kima Ventures in September 2015, it was becoming clear that our mandate to support the rise of French entrepreneurship was…

May 28, 2019 · 3 min read

For foreign investors willing to back startups in France

Kima Ventures has the largest portfolio of French companies in the world. We’ve had the opportunity to observe over the past few years the…

May 24, 2019 · 4 min read

Quick not about updating prospective investors at seed stage, especially business angels

Most of the founders we back have to go through the pain of handling a roadshow. And they know that a fundraising process can’t last…

Apr 1, 2019 · 2 min read

Facing Ignorance, Emptiness & Loneliness

I recently participated in a discussion with entrepreneurs at 42. At some point, a young fellow asked me if he should joined an…

Mar 21, 2019 · 3 min read

Neither right nor wrong

There is an impossible balance in entrepreneurship… the dichotomies of truths that must live together. optimism over endless issues, strong…

Feb 9, 2019 · 2 min read

How things work at Kima Ventures

Yesterday, a fellow investor asked me which CRM platform we were using at Kima Ventures. We don’t use one. We are not selling, we are…

Feb 1, 2019 · 5 min read

How to make a compelling pitch deck

I thought I would never write a post about pitch decks again. Well… Never say never. Especially in Venture Capital.

Jan 25, 2019 · 10 min read

The Venture Chills

Today I got three of those…

Jan 23, 2019 · 4 min read

Entrepreneurs In Search For Support

Many entrepreneurs realise too late through their journey the critical importance of surrounding themselves with a guard of people who…

Jan 22, 2019 · 2 min read

Record items to build routines

I record all my meetings & readings.

Jan 5, 2019 · 3 min read

In search for the new wave of fulfillness-enabling mobile consumer apps

Would love to invest in the next generation of consumer apps, transforming how people find their way towards fulfillness. Think…

Dec 28, 2018 · 2 min read

The Stellar Company

I’ve been recently sharing my view with a fellow investor on one of the most promising companies of our portfolio… I figured it was worth…

Dec 3, 2018 · 3 min read

The reason why you can’t apply for funding on kimaventures.com

Until recently, people could find on our website a form to apply for funding. I must admit that we did fund a couple of companies over the…

Dec 2, 2018 · 1 min read