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Suranga Chandratillake

Suranga Chandratillake

Make like an elephant and never forget a meeting follow-up again! Productivity hack #4139

Any hack that lasts for more than a year is a good sign in my experience — here’s how I don’t forget to follow up on meetings anymore…

Sep 29, 2022

Make like an elephant and never forget a meeting follow-up again! Productivity hack #4139

Sep 29, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Venture Demystified: Corporate Venture Revisited, 2022 edition

When I first wrote about corporate venture funds six years ago they were a relatively new phenomenon in Europe’s growing start-up…

Sep 22, 2022

Venture Demystified: Corporate Venture Revisited, 2022 edition

Sep 22, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Back to the office … or not?

Just as for everyone else, COVID’s travel and lockdown restrictions changed venture capital entirely. For almost two years, none of us…

Sep 7, 2022

Back to the office … or not?

Sep 7, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Venture Demystified: Loss Ratios in 2022/23 and what it could mean

The bull market of 2020 and 2021 artificially lowered loss rates of early stage companies — will the pullback of 2022 see a reversion?

Sep 5, 2022

Venture Demystified: Loss Ratios in 2022/23 and what it could mean

Sep 5, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Venture Demystified: Reserves and Follow-ons in 2022

My greatest venture blogging hero has to be USV’s Fred Wilson, I’ve followed his writing since I was an entrepreneur, years before I even…

Aug 31, 2022

Venture Demystified: Reserves and Follow-ons in 2022

Aug 31, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Hybrid or not: the return of office space

I was with two co-founders of a London-based tech company this morning who had just signed a new lease in the city. One of them shared they…

Jun 28, 2022

Hybrid or not: the return of office space

Jun 28, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Leadership psychology and emotion in downturns

In 2008/09, I was a founder and CEO. This time, I’m an investor. Before you do anything else, get your mind and emotions in the right…

Jun 22, 2022

Leadership psychology and emotion in downturns

Jun 22, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Follow the money! How VCs make money and why it matters if you are a founder or want to work in VC.

The Venture Capital Business Model

Jun 15, 2022

Jun 15, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Venture Demystified: The decision-making process of an early stage venture investment, from the…

Founders sometimes know little about the investment process inside the VC firms they pitch for investment. If you’re talking to a VC and…

Mar 3, 2022

Venture Demystified: The decision-making process of an early stage venture investment, from the…

Mar 3, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

What a VC is looking for at Seed and Series A

If you’ve started a company and want to raise your first round of financing from a venture capital firm, you’re probably at Seed or Series…

Feb 3, 2022

Great founders come in every shape and size

Feb 3, 2022

Suranga Chandratillake

Suranga Chandratillake

VC @balderton and Chief Strategy @blinkx_video. Previously: Founder/CEO @blinkx_video and US CTO @HPAutonomy. Yet more previously: CompSci @Cambridge_Uni

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