Venture Capital Redux If you read business or investment literature (or even MIT Technology Review), you know that there are articles that appear with annoying regularity.   ’10 Stocks to Buy Now’ ‘What Makes a Leader?’ ‘Managing Disruptive [...]

If you’re diligent and patient, and pan in the right streams, you find bits of gold. I’m passing one on here. I follow a lot of investors on social media (mostly Twitter).  Some are friends, some acquaintances, and some because they have [...]

Election Special Last week I participated in a board discussion about whether we should consider a SPAC.  If you haven’t been paying attention, SPACs are the hot topic in US big-time VC/private equity deals.  I was planning a post about SPACs, [...]

Cubii Once upon a time in 2013, I taught a course called Building the New Venture to University of Chicago undergraduates. Teams of students took concepts of their choice and explored the potential for a business, developed minimum viable [...]

Two Deals I see a lot of funding opportunities.  Most of them are in Ireland and the USA for practical reasons.   See, I have experience in those markets, as well as contacts, domain experts, potential co-investors and future funders.  Investing [...]

I take notes for this blog (and for other writing that I do).  Most of my scribblings go nowhere but the circular file, but now and again a thought takes root and grows into something I hope merits reading (see last week’s post, number 12).  [...]