As a founder, my ears prick up when I hear startups described as “deals”. I ran startups for much of my career, and poured my heart and soul and every ounce of waking energy into building these companies – which at times, felt like an effort against insurmountable odds. Now as an investor in early-stage…
Category: Startups
Nail Your Series A Pitch: Story, State, Simplicity
To nail your Series A investor pitch, focus on 3 things: Story, State, and Simplicity. Your Story You might be running an amazing business, but if you can’t get investors excited about your story, it doesn’t matter. Investors are people, and people invest in other people — this is driven by your personal story and…
Investing in Our Evolution
Human beings are the first species to not be passively molded by the forces of physical evolution—a gradual process that takes millions of years. Specifically, technology has allowed us to digitize and automate the power of the human mind. In essence, great technologies—and the companies that deliver them—have fundamentally changed the rate of human evolution….