When to Take VC Money
When to take VC Stolen from the Mosaic site here Mosaic Insights It may be a surprise to hear this from a venture capitalist, but the vast majority of startups should not take money from our industry. The history of entrepreneurship is the history of owner-managers with no outside shareholders. Indeed the data shows just…
Read moreWhen to take VC
When to take VC Great Post from Mike at Mosaic: http://www.mosaicventures.com/mosaicblog/2016/5/30/when-to-take-vc Read it below if you are too lazy to click on above link:) When to take VC Mosaic Insights It may be a surprise to hear this from a venture capitalist, but the vast majority of startups should not take money from our industry….
Read moreIt’s Uncool to Build a Proper Company and VC’s are Propagating the Lie
It’s Uncool to Build a Proper Company and VC’s are Propagating the Lie You do not need VC money, irrelevant about what Techcrunch tells you, irrelevant about accelerators tell you, irrelevant about what everyone tells you. Startups fall into 3 types: Companies that should never raise money and the founders can keep complete control and…
Read moreBGF Ventures be more adventurous guys please
BGF Ventures be more adventurous guys please BGF, a £200 million tech fund is looking for staff………looks like the same old skill sets are need: Top University, MBA, strategy, private equity, investment banking….here is the job advert: https://bgf-ventures.workable.com/jobs/150361 Experience of one of: Entrepreneurial / startup / venture experience Business development, strategy or product management at…
Read moreLooks like everyone is working for Sequoia the VC
Looks like everyone is working for Sequoia the VC Seems like a little ruckass happening on the West Coast as many angel investors have been acting as scouts for Sequoia, so founders maybe don’t really know where there Angel money was really coming from…….Walter White maybe????? http://www.wsj.com/…/secretive-sprawling-network-of-scouts-spreads-money-through-silicon-valley Here is a copy of the…
Read moreHow should a VC really look?
How should a VC really look? Following on from my post yesterday: Another fucking tech Fund Seems like I have hit upon something. Anyway as many of you know we are looking to create a VC but the current models do not seem to fit with how my mind works. I do not come from…
Read moreAnother fucking tech VC fund……
Another fucking tech VC fund…… So money galore has been piling into tech from anywhere and everywhere. To the extent now that every man and his dog has shares in a so called Unicorn company, sadly as happens with many things, they go up and then they come down, so now the tech world waits…
Read more