Dear founder #8: moving fast, intellectual honesty, and tapping into the “unknown unknowns”
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- June 26, 2020
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As investors, we enjoy many of our discussions and interactions with founders – probably a good thing – and often gain much happiness (even excitement) when, after “following” founders and … Continue Reading
Dear Founder #7: Thinking global from day 1
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- May 1, 2020
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One of the happy things in my day-to-day life is that we are increasingly seeing founders who are thinking global from day 1. Substantive thoughts about building a “global” company … Continue Reading
Dear Founder #6: on weather-proofing again (with a note on strategies for the unexpected tornado) ….
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- April 8, 2020
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Dear Founder, We feel the need to speak about resilience and being weather-proof again (our part 1 – “building strong and weather-proof companies” – is here). For those of … Continue Reading
Re-imagine: products, policies, digital transformation, machines vs humans
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- February 27, 2020
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As we move into a new decade, it is worth asking broader questions like “what does our world need”? We’ve just sent out an investor newsletter discussing how the world … Continue Reading
Great founding teams – a revisit
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- December 24, 2018
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[An earlier version of this post was titled “Builders of the world, design and surf once in a while!”] As 2018 draws to a close, we reflect on how we … Continue Reading
Nuts and bolts #2: 9 delightful things about product-market fit
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- September 24, 2018
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A lot of ink has been spilled on “product market fit” but we are still very often answering Qs about this and so we are going to jot down a … Continue Reading
Being long on innovation – part 2: Thriving under the shadows of giants
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- September 14, 2018
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[Addition on 24 Oct: adding a link to an a16z blog-post published not long after on the same topic highlighted in point 5 below, that selling in the early stages … Continue Reading
Dear founder #3: building strong and weather-proof companies
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- January 15, 2018
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We invest to support companies building for the long term and so we are very interested in founders who want to build long-lasting and strong companies irrespective of the state … Continue Reading
Nuts and bolts #1 – 8 things about Term Sheets
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- March 17, 2017
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Yes – fundraising and Term Sheets. Something many founders have to deal with. We often get asked about this. And we find ourselves saying to founders more often than not … Continue Reading
What an investment decision mean to us
- By ssyc1
- December 16, 2016
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As venture capitalists, we are in the business of seeing and reviewing hundreds and thousands of business plans of young tech companies looking for their first or second round of … Continue Reading