A good company has to have good technology, an understanding of the industry, and an effective sales process. You can have the right insights that are really solving a pain point for the industry, bu...
We're not managers, we're board-leveled, but we're doing everything we can to get connected to the right network, to give opportunities to our portfolio companies. An example of that is the way we str...
With Venture Capital investing, just as in the case of any other investment, the main thing is being able to put in a certain value. An important piece to the puzzle, when you're investing in any comp...
Before we invest in a company, we sit down with the entrepreneur and talk about what KPIs are most important to their business? What's really going to make the biggest difference? Is it going to be t...
There are different ways you can approach the investing process, but it is going to be based on your relationships. When you're raising capital outside of just raising the money, my biggest piece of a...
When it comes to defining market share and competitive advantage, there are three things metrics we’re looking for in founders. Number one is culture. And it's not necessarily the team. It's a questio...
There are certain things that differentiate successful entrepreneurs from those that are just in the business for the money, and one of those things is that they learn deeply the problem they are tryi...
We operate with what we call a studio model, so our fund is very small. It's concentrated around ten to twelve companies and we're looking at dramatically high-target and high-growth areas: the consum...
From a fund perspective, we have a very simple definition of a team that we want to support. Let’s say if we invest two million dollars in a business, we need a conviction that the market can support...
It seems that today the community behind the product means even more than the code. Let’s take a look at Ethereum or Bitcoin or any other cryptocurrencies - they are completely open-source. So the cod...
Some of the greatest entrepreneurs I've ever met are not just visionaries, but they see through the numbers and science. Specifically in digital health, you get to meet incredibly smart people. Everyb...
In terms of things that would pique our interest from the investment perspective, it is certainly evidence of competitive advantage and market share. Most startups make the mistake of conceiving of MV...
We get heavily involved in the earliest stages of company formation or growth. In many cases, we actually start the company and control it. We do all this with our own ship, we hire all the people and...
I've contributed to a good hundred blockchain projects. Some with my ideas and suggestions. Others were using the help of my firm from the very start and to the successful launches of their products,...
Investing is just essentially an interview loop. It's another type of hiring. The real inspiration behind our model is the hiring experience we have. Sometimes a person looks absolutely perfect on pap...
