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Access and Community are more important than Capital, Deal Flow and Judgement 19 Apr 2013 | 04:45 am
Investing in companies, especially early stage, has historically been about capital, deal flow and judgement. If you had the money, you would get the deal flow and then you could take your time pickin...
Curation and Urgency: Two Requirements for any Startup (and Community) 16 Apr 2013 | 03:12 am
When I think about the typical community building events I see around the country, I see events that are designed to cater to anyone remotely interested in entrepreneurship. It almost always ends up b...
moving on: introducing dashboard.io 28 Mar 2013 | 08:00 pm
It’s been a wild and crazy ride here at 500 Startups: over the last few years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with some of the smartest people I’ve ever met, fund hundreds of ambitious founders from...
Within Five Years, Most VCs will have a Partner Focused on Electronic Trading 5 Mar 2013 | 12:32 am
Traditionally, venture capital firms raise a pile of money and then have specific partners responsible for the deployment of that cash into specific industry and regions. Over the next few years, tha...
Founders, Their Startups and (the lack of) Storytelling 18 Feb 2013 | 11:59 pm
At one point or another, every founder has received the “just focus on traction” advice. And it’s good advice. The problem is that very few founders are also told to learn to “tell a good story” as we...
The Rise of the Angels (and the Entrepreneurs) 16 Dec 2012 | 04:05 pm
This post includes video, slides, and a full-text writeup. At 3,500+ words, you probably don’t want to be reading this on your phone. Over the past two years, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved wit...
India Has a Series A Drought 7 Dec 2012 | 03:58 pm
There’s been a lot of recent talk about the Series A crunch in the US. Having spent the last two days at the AVCJ conference in Mumbai, I’d like to propose that India has the opposite problem: there’s...
Investors: Risk And Uncertainty Are Not The Same Thing 6 Dec 2012 | 02:55 pm
[I'm speaking at the Asian Venture Capital Journal event here in Mumbai later today and these are the speaker notes I'll be using for my talk. The audience is primarily LPs which is a fancy way of say...
Investors Need To Lose Their Egos And Founders Need To Gain Some Confidence 25 Nov 2012 | 08:20 am
I’ve spent a lot of time on the road this year and, though I’ve visited a handful of countries, the majority of my time outside the US this year has been India. (Note: I’ll assert that what I’m about ...
The Art of Hiring: How To Hire The Best 21 Nov 2012 | 04:54 am
The best people are already doing something they love. The ones on the market aren’t always the ones you want. If you want the best people working with you, you only have two options: Inspire them. Ge...
