If you aren’t familiar with the honey badger, stop right now and watch this video. You’re…
By Gigi Levy-Weiss (@GigiLevy) and James Currier (@jamescurrier)
Levy-Weiss and Currier are Partners at NFX Guild, an early-stage fund with a three-month program for businesses utilizing network effects.
The wrong pricing model can kill your startup. While it may seem insignificant…
This is the second installment of @efLDN’s five-part series on tactical fundraising advice. The first post of the series was on Preparation.
37signals’ unconventional business practices are shaking up the startup world. Oliver Lindberg chats to company partner David Heinemeier Hansson, who explains why he thinks venture capital is…
How Airbnb, Tesla and Durex Monetized 800mm WeChat Users
botcamp, betaworks first accelerator program, ran this summer. The program was a success and we’d like to share some data points…
See original post on LinkedIn here.
Only 15% of female founders agree that that “the venture capital community is making…
The past year I have spent collaborating with a great team of Black Pearls VC, one of the 9 major Polish venture funds. For the first time in my 8-year long VC career, I had the pleasure of working with the entrepreneurs coming from my own home country. Much has changed since I left Poland…
Most investment decisions are quite difficult. Often we’re just getting to know the founders, and have to make…
I recently had the distinct honour of becoming the first guest to be covered in a podcast by StartUp Here , an exciting new platform for all your startup related news- analysis, interviews and personal journeys started by my ex-colleague Mishaal Nathani.
I spent all of last week in Kuwait, and heading to Dubai next week before I head back to Chicago.
The title of this post is from Al Shugart’s 3 Rules of Entrepreneurship…
We’re very excited to kick off one of our favorite initiatives here at Chicago Ventures — our…
I am happy to announce a partnership with my friends and colleagues at Startwise. The company is led by two exceptional…
Yes we have a new president — but that’s not the reason. The fact that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is going to make an…
If you’ve talked to me the past few years, especially over a beer or while imbibing other stuff, one thing that I’ve likely made all too clear is my disdain for startups. In my opinion, the startup culture currently sweeping our planet is one of the worst things that could happen to our society. I’m…
Throwback Thursday to June of 2014 when I decided to spend a summer (then the next school year) trying to build something from literally nothing. The idea was fairly simple — artist-designed shoes that catch the eye. We had early market demand by selling one-offs (my sister would…
Yes. Often the objectives are completely different in the funded setting. The most notable objective I’ve seen is simply pursuing more funding, in which case, the need is not a sustainably profitable business model, but rather a business outlook that seems to have the most potential. It becomes a long string of keeping the story hot and the Kool-Aid…
Hedge fund firms and other alternative asset managers are increasingly financing the economy, says an Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) paper.
The most popular borrowers of non-bank private debt are small and medium-sized enterprises…
