Bloody noses and panic attacks — go find a mentor.I’m writing this to let founders know that it’s OK — preferred — that you ask for help.Before I was a venture capitalist, I was founder and CEO of a software company called Leverage Software. We were really early into enterprise social networking …
Has the opportunity for Indian startups been terribly wrongly estimated?I was at a conference the other day, speaking on a panel with VCs and angels, when we were asked a question: With the softening of valuations and the famous Flipkart markdown, is there still a large…
What’s Next in Computing?The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes…
🎉🐢Don’t Even Think about Becoming a VCat least not yet. I was at Duke interviewing students for a new Freestyle internship…
Insights from the RAISE Micro-VC summitFollow me @samir kaji for my random, sometimes relevant musings about the venture capital world.Last week, we were fortunate enough to serve as one of the co-producers of RAISE in the Presidio, a 1-day summit focused on helping emerging fund managers build…
Tech Caucus: Tesla, The Top Accelerators, VR, and Which Company Will Have the Next Billion Dollar Exit?
Another measure for seed fund performanceFollow me @samirkaji for my random, sometimes relevant thoughts on the world of venture capital.Paul Arnold, founder of seed stage firm Switch.VC and I wrote recently about the impact of seed funds in securing follow-on financing…
Startup CEOs need to pitch their business, not the productI recently had a call with a tech startup that complained about wasting too much time during initial calls with potential VCs because they have so much to tell. Their excitement about the product is killing them!
