In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. […] But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the average…

What are the “Must-Reads” for a new VC or someone aspiring to be a VC? We’re just building our OMERS Ventures team, and hiring some people who are new to Venture. So I put together this quick list of blogs, newsletters, podcasts and books to provide some foundations. What have…

I was lucky enough to get my first VC job in September 2009.

Scarily, it’s nearly 20 years since I started my first full-time job (at McKinsey). To check the actual date (8th March 1999 as it turns out), I had a rare leaf back through my old journal, and came across a rather intriguing passage... Gulp, I used to write SO MUCH……

[a version of this piece appeared in the Sunday Telegraph on 19th February 2017. For context, worth first reading the pro-Remain piece I wrote for TechCrunch prior to the Brexit referendum in May 2016] My job means that I meet about a dozen entrepreneurs every week. I’m often blown away…

I recently used the Medium “import tool” to resurface a few old blogs from my Firefly Tonics days (sadly some of the pictures were lost in transit). Here’s one from September 2008 that seemed appropriate to re-share in the week that Trump effectively won the Republican nomination. …

TLDR: after 6 inspiring years at Balderton, I’m off to start a new VC fund. Cue wistful nostalgia for colleagues & entrepreneurs, over-sharing of personal journals, and a bit of psychobabble… Six years ago I was sitting reading the papers in the May sunshine in Buckinghamshire. I’d just left my…