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Ten years ago, Andy Dunn was at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He was torn between taking a high paying job and following the lead of Brian Spaly — a classmate who was selling…
Since 2015, all VCs in India have a fair idea of the good, the bad and ugly among their investments. The bridge rounds should not confuse an onlooker, because those are driven by a different set of…
I am reading this article on a Chinese made phone, with Kindle by the side, assembled in China, my internet modem is made in China.
UBER ties up with Paytm whose major investor is Alibaba, Ola has partnership with Didi, I own a Lenovo laptop made in China, chances are several of the equipments in the electricity I am using…
India internet opportunity is getting bigger, but not clearer
The one peculiar thing about the Mary Meeker report is that is mentions India and its internet penetration very high up…
Founders, if you’ve ever tried to raise any amount of capital you’ve asked the…
Recently I was invited to give a guest lecture to the Young Venture Capital Forum of Israel — a professional association of VCs in Israel. They asked me to give a series of talks on…
An interesting consequence of the release of M.S. Dhoni : The Untold Story is that many little-known anecdotes from MS Dhoni’s career can now be appreciated by a larger audience.
The one that caught my attention the most was the story around Dhoni’s selection into…
I don’t like phone calls, and I’m not alone: increasingly, Americans, and especially millennials, avoid the phone.
Of all the phone interactions, customer service is near the worst. Phone trees are hard to navigate, and can take a while…
Back in the day when software was really expensive to build, data was expensive to store and sales were, well, expensive to procure, VCs had big loss ratios. When the going got tough, you had to cut your losses, quick!
Last week Earlybird Venture Capital shared a medium post on its investment process:
Since we deem transparency and openness among our core values, it is time to shed some light on the most central operational sequence of a VC: the…
In the recent era, entrepreneurship is not only defined by how well you’re managing the things but also by what you’re creating for the society. The business world has enough Managers, all they are looking for is great innovators with super meaningful products…
At least in Silicon Valley, but also increasingly in other parts of the world, it is becoming dogma that seed financing…
Making excuses for the Clinton’s wrongdoings, manipulation, lying, corruption, financial expoitation, elitism, arrogance and complete lack of basic integrity is somehow justified in the hatred of Trump (ironic, huh?).
Trump and Clinton are both creepy clowns. It’s a matter of perspective who is worse depending on who you…
Ask any VC what is critical when they look at an investment and you will likely receive an answer that includes some…
A brief introduction: my name is Thaddeus Diamond. Currently, I am a first-year full-time MBA candidate at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Before this I was a software engineer building the data ingestion and transformation platforms for the Amazon Echo. Even before that, I was an…
Entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be about being the next Facebook, Unilever, Standard Oil, or East India…
Mark Suster, a rich venture capitalist, clearly hates Donald Trump and supports the corrupt, dishonest Hillary Clinton. That is his choice and his right as much we consider both Trump and Clinton creepy clowns.
New Business Finance options include venture capital, angel investors, retirement and pension plans, Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, bonds, and banks.
The initial budget for start-ups and acquisitions require answers for several key questions including market data…
The Equidam Weekly is a curated collection of readings delivered weekly to bring you the most informative articles on growth companies, early stage funding and generally on how to build businesses in the…
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