Flogas and Brite offer Free Festival ‘e-wheels’  Festival energy partner Flogas Ireland has teamed up with Galway firm Brite Mobility  to offer free e-bike trips on dedicated Flogas e-bikes to organisers, artists, accredited  staff and [...]

Much of my writing this year has been grounded in two hypotheses: The power balance in the startup business has changed (in the USA, which is 80% of the market for startup investment.  An effect here ripples across the world).  Money is no [...]

A Simple Story “A customer is more important than your mother” — Steven Kaplan< Neubauer Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, UChicago Once upon a time, a founder contacted me with a time-sensitive problem.  She had [...]

Models OK, I’m guilty of wandering fairly far afield.  Some of my recent blog posts have been at 30,000 feet and 3500 miles west.  Been a dog off the leash.  So this week my feet are firm on the ground and I’m focused on startup world in the [...]

As you know by now, I spend time working with VCs, preparing companies to engage with them, advising on how best to understand their business models, their motivations, and their value-add to a new idea or business. Venture capital is a fairly [...]

I’ve spoken before about the best people to follow in angel/VC.  Mark Suster always tops my list because he lives up to the name of his website (Both Sides of the Table), because he takes a broad view of the market, and because he’s a mensch.   [...]