For better or worse, I tend to spend a lot of time mentoring and advising people and was asked twice today what I read to…
Dictum meum pactum is a phrase I learned in high school whilst writing essays for my application to Oxford University and it is the first…
I was asked to mentor startups at DTAC Accelerate in Bangkok, to guide startups to successfully get on the path to raising their seed round….
Do you know much about venture capital in Asia? This is a quick presentation I churned out the night before the Premoney Asia conference we organised…
Many founders view the panacea to securing funding from venture capital investors in the fundraising process as getting the first meeting; once they are in…
I read an article the other day (Note: I actually wrote this a few months back) on Pando Daily about a company called Barkbox in…
I just watched the rather tragic failure of a presentation at CES, in which the director Michael Bay was lending his name to a Samsung…
I was talking shop on Saturday night with a VC and he mentioned offhandedly an anecdote about owning markets, but it was a little peculiar…
Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt once said on problems, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole!” Founders…
Birchbox kicked off the first modern e-commerce interpretation of a subscription business model in September 2010, promising to send a personalized box of 5 deluxe-size…
