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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…

4 min readSep 29, 2022

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

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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…

3 min readSep 22, 2022

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Venture Demystified: Corporate Venture Revisited, 2022 edition

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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…

3 min readSep 7, 2022

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Back to the office … or not?

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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?

4 min readSep 5, 2022

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

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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…

4 min readAug 31, 2022

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Venture Demystified: Reserves and Follow-ons in 2022

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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…

3 min readJun 28, 2022

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Hybrid or not: the return of office space

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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…

3 min readJun 22, 2022

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Leadership psychology and emotion in downturns

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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

8 min readJun 15, 2022

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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…

8 min readMar 3, 2022

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

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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…

7 min readFeb 3, 2022

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Great founders come in every shape and size

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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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