What is Product-Market fit?

We talk about it all the time, as VCs, as product managers and as entrepreneurs — but what does it really mean?

Startups’ biggest mistake — Avoid it. Please.

There are many mistakes that can and are made in the challenging pursuit of building a great company.

Here is a list — not exhaustive of course. I’d love to see yours

Getting your foot in a VC’s door

This post first appeared in the Financial Times on Saturday 2nd June 2012 and was written specifically for the FT. I’ve re-published here because in the current market, there are more companies being formed/started than ever. Records are being set in every geography for…

Are we close to the peak?

Should tech angels stop investing in startups?

There is lots of chatter about whether this or that event indicates the beginning of the last steep ascent to the summit of tech investment for the moment. Those of us who have lived through the cycles know that…

What is Product-Market fit?

Ask any entrepreneur or investor about achieving product market fit, and they’ll tell you that once they’d done it, their company started to grow like crazy. They’d built a product or service that resonated with people, and those people were turning into evangelical customers of…

Majority World Report 2015

Just back from Dublin Web Summit — amazing to see what Paddy and the team has built over the last 5 years from 400 to 40k people and excited to see what it become in 2016 in all four major Internet markets: US, Europe, India and Asia.