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Letters from the Boardroom

You give Boards a bad name

How OpenAI’s Board Dynamics will mess up Boardrooms across the globe.

3 min readNov 21, 2023

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You give Boards a bad name

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Michael Schuster

24 things I learned as a Seed Investor — Part 2: about being a Founder

Back in 2011 I decided to switch sides from being a founder to the other side of the table. This text is the result of over a decade of…

7 min readDec 19, 2022

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24 things I learned as a Seed Investor — Part 1: about being an Investor

Back in 2011 I decided to switch sides from being a founder to the other side of the table. This text is the result of over a decade of…

8 min readDec 16, 2022

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Speedinvest

Partners, not Investors — How to Choose a Follow-on Investor

You’ve been offered money. That’s great! But you shouldn’t take it from just anyone. Read this before signing your life over to an…

10 min readMay 12, 2020

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Partners, not Investors — How to Choose a Follow-on Investor

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Speedinvest

Terms, Baby — What to Expect When You Are Raising a Series A in Europe

Arguably one of the most useful skills an investor can bring to the table of growing a companies that of a seasoned fundraising advisor.

8 min readJun 5, 2019

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Speedinvest

Request for Startups: Voice Controlled Applications or Infrastructure for Voice-Enabled Services

We had been looking into this space for a while, starting to form an opinion in a (never published) blogpost when Chatbots hit the street…

2 min readApr 16, 2018

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Speedinvest

We Live in a Post-Series World

This post will take you into conventional wisdom around startup financing, try to provide some data for a reality check and conclude with…

4 min readApr 9, 2018

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We Live in a Post-Series World

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Michael Schuster

Michael Schuster

Loves music, politics, internet, food and Vienna. Previously Managing Partner at Speedinvest, a European Seed Stage Venture Fund.

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