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...
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...
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...
We are seeing a shift from privately-owned organizations to community-owned organizations. And when I say organizations, I mean companies, protocols, products: if it is community-owned it has a bigger...
Pre-planning as much as you can is vital, just as defining your target market, goals you’re trying to achieve, etc. Let's say you invested in a food company that makes snack bars. It often happens tha...
We have been actively studying the ICO market over the past months, including the content design that blockchain startups choose. We will give some advice based on the results of these observations:A...
The reason why IEOs, exchange offerings, token sales are suitable to put under a timeline is that for the launch of a network there is always a certain schedule necessary for all activities. For insta...
Within the B2C, B2B, or B2G space, the sales cycle, in general, is always durable. The reason for this is bureaucracy. Selling processes take longer if there’s a middleman: sales departments process i...
What is the Business Model Canvas (BMC)? The Business Model Canvas is a strategic tool used for visually developing or displaying a business model. A BMC helps determine and align the key business ac...
How to Develop a Strategy For Success Use SWOT Analysis to assess your organization's current position before you decide on any new strategy. Find out what's working well, and what's not so good....
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...
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...
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,...
I've built a distribution for B2B K12 companies multiple times so I learned a lot about what works and what doesn't. To have an over-scaled distribution in K-12, you need to learn about the right mix...
A good team is the one that has extensive experience, plus they're obsessed with a particular problem. I've had success in backing a few founders who had actual expertise in addressing certain proble...
