The generic answer of any venture investor about what they look for is always great teams in great markets. But that is too abstract to be useful. So here’s a little of what I’ve learnt over the past seven years at Blackbird and Startmate.
I’ve had a couple conversations with other investors recently around what a seed stage company needs to achieve to raise a series A. This is something we think a lot about given that we are exclusively seed stage investors, and we’ve written a fair bit about it in the past (see here for a…
Almost half a century ago, a young assistant professor of Economics from UC Berkeley landed in Delhi to spend a year doing research at the Indian Statistical Institute. His work over the next 18 months led to results that were, in hindsight, as obvious as they were profound. His…
In 1990, if I wanted a pair of Calvin Klein jeans I had seen in a magazine, I’d head to the mall, sift through piles of inventory to find my size, try them on, ask the opinion of the often inexperienced sales associate, wait in line to check…
Welcome to Samaipata Ventures’ blog, a VC fund specializing in market-place and disruptive e-commerce models in Southern Europe. If…
Today Procurify publicly announced their Series A round, which we led at Runa.
Procurement software is not the sexiest industry, but sexiness is not usually the best indicator of long-term value. We believe that the Procurify team is creating a…
by Mackey Craven
Mackey is a Partner at OpenView.
At Village Capital, we believe that founders themselves are the best forecasters and evaluators of a new idea’s likelihood of success. We have skin in the game behind this concept — entrepreneurs themselves make the final…
The 4th Angel Fair Africa that ended on 11th November in Nairobi has already yielded three deal…
As the portfolio I’ve built in the past two years continues to mature, I’m spending increasing amounts of time…
Presentation given at AI World, November 8 2016 with Shivon Zilis.
Qualifying a VC Investor
As the portfolio I’ve built in the past two years continues to mature, I’m spending increasing amounts of time helping founders…
Sorry about the delay with this post; I know it’s been a while. October was a crazy month for recruiting, but I’m excited to share that I received an offer from an absolutely incredible venture capital firm. I guess the blogging and hard work paid off! With that being said, please feel free…
Singular is proud to announce that we’ve closed our Series A funding with $15m…
I’ve been wanting to write this article for some time but I couldn’t find the context for what…
As investors in innovation, VCs are always searching for the next exponential technology that would…
You wake up at 8 AM with a headache. You blame it on the weird tasting wheat beer you had last night at one of those shady but hip looking craft breweries in Sector 29. You can’t remember the name because they…
I write about my passion for entrepreneurship, startups, venture capital and our work here at Cherry Ventures.
Iteration is a process of learning and developing that enables companies to make important changes at an organizational level and micro-level. . In an ever-changing world, the world is constantly changing which means products must change with them. Without iteration, all products will…
We are slowly solidifying out prototype of our startup and as we make it things are evolving and changing. We are creating our platform on Balsamiq which is an online platform where we can create a dummy platform for our product. We will be sending out a survey and we will be receiving…
As every quarter here are the highlights of the Venture Pulse Q3 2016 CB Insights Report, which tracks the global VC…
Nobody likes to fail. Failing causes us embarrassment. Failing bruises our ego. Failing might be a dark spot on our performance assessments. All we have to do is reflect on our childhood for when we failed and how poorly we felt. Even if our parents did…
Alicia Syrett ’07 is the Founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments. She currently serves on the Board of New York Angels and is a recurring panelist on CNBC’s PowerPitch. A former entrepreneur…
EBAN (European Business Angels Network) just released officially it’s “Member News” Content Hub, fully automated…
As a music streaming company with multiple customer bases that might dabble in data (or possibly even basic AI), Popstart has a lot of potential for iteration. The first, easiest area to iterate is user experience. With both a music player that aims to put new music in front of…
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Last Thursday, we discussed about investment term sheet in class. What is the term sheet? According to the reading, the term sheet is one of the most important documents a founder will ever…
I anticipate that the way our group will go about iterating our product, RealDeal, as our startup evolves will depend on the feedback we receive from our customer interviews. We don’t want to fix something that isn’t broken or get into a situation where so many assumptions have been made before even meeting…
Treating your skin is a necessary part of keeping it clear and healthy. Most people think that the only way to keep your skin clear is by maintaining a regular skincare regimen, but that is not always the case. Cleansers and moisturizers are necessary for basic…
