Lighting the match

When we first met to discuss starting a fund, one of the things that we all had in common was that we were entrepreneurs. We had launched our own companies, raised funding, gotten rejected by investor after investor, produced good and bad products, and most importantly suffered from failure…

“Everybody Pivots!”

There’s a moment during the season 1 finale of “Silicon Valley” when the founders of Pied Piper (the fictional company at the center of the show) realize their company might die. “We’re going to be poor,” one of them cries. But then out of nowhere, in true Hollywood style, the founder saves…

Fred Wilson famously said it took him 10 years to become a “half-way decent” venture capitalist. In which case, I’m half way to becoming “half-way decent” (exactly the amount of exposure to start spewing advice, don’t you think?).

My three bets for 2016

There’s lots of talk of venture funding slowing down in India this year. And that’s possibly true. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to come to a grinding halt. Ecommerce alone is estimated to cross US$36 billion during 2016. And since we all know these companies don’t make a profit, cash…

Why aren’t more women getting funded in India — the problem at the moment is literally “all of us”.

This is an article I originally wrote for the Economic Times on March 6, 2016. I’m publishing a longer version of it here since it’s Women’s Day today. I’ve…

Count to ten before getting on the treadmill

Raising capital is a momentous occasion for any company. As a venture capitalist, it’s a hard thing to admit, but we really are an entrepreneur’s last option for capital. By the time they reach our door, they have typically tried at least three other…