Lead From Behind

There is a nearly endless body of work on leadership being developed and published over the centuries. Leadership, as a…

People First

By now it’s common knowledge that the best VCs make their investments based on the strength of the team first and only second on the…

The Ugly Truth About Consumer Internet

A lot of the entrepreneurs I meet these days are building their startups in the consumer Internet space. It makes sense: Billions of people are already online, many more are coming online every day. Building products in this space is typically not terribly…

Money Is Just an Enabler

Recently I find myself in too many discussions with founders about their fundraising. On the surface of it there is obviously nothing wrong with that; what disturbs me though is how often the conversation starts with:

Mid-Year Check-In

At Singularity University we are going through a mid-year check-in — an exercise where we look at plans and budgets to make sure we are on track, the assumptions we made at the beginning of the year still hold true; as well as allow for things which we couldn’t have predicted earlier this year to…