Venture Capital

The five soft skills of snaring an angel

As an angel investor, I get at least an email every day from someone who promises me riches and glory if I am just to part with money and spend my time and attention in supporting them. I have invested in very, very few of these people and made many of them…

“When” you ask? The time is now!

It’s August 2001 and I have an idea. The idea is bottled inside me, and it needs to be let out. So I…

Asia Headlines — Week of 10/31

Deals

Beijing — 住范儿 (Zhu Fan Er), a home renovation services company similar to Houzz, raised a Pre-A round in the tens of millions RMB from Sinovation Ventures, 天使湾 (Tisiwi), and 金龙腾 (Jin Long Teng). Founded in 2015, the company offers home renovation solutions for…

Peter Fenton

Twitter 上場で億万長者に

Peter Fenton 氏は、少数精鋭で有名な Benchmark Capital…

William Shockley

シリコンバレーの出発点

William Shockley…

Fail Faster or Plan Better, But don’t waste time ….

Brainspace Update; Visualizing Cybersecurity

In early October, we published a piece called Visualizing Hyperspace that highlighted an innovative content discovery company called Brainspace. We were impressed by the platform’s ability to ingest, understand, interpret, analyze, and present…

Founders and VCs

Lately, I’ve heard a lot about the way in which VCs are not as ambitious as founders. I agree with that to some extent but I believe that each has their own difficulties and they must approach it to what their respective job entails.

Founder

Jesus…. 😭😭😭😭 maybe that person drank alomo before showing up for that pitch lol. Does he/she even understand concepts like down round or even remotely financially literate enough to structure a proper term sheet. This person has jokes..

In my research I’ve found that many Nigerian wanapreneurs think ideas mean anything…