2020

Blog archives for DECEMBER 2020

So you want to raise a fund (Part 3/4)

Structuring and Licensing [This is the third article in a 4-part series on fundraising] Read the previous chapter on fund strategy. If...

Complicated storytelling

This is true for many investment banks. And people pay for complexity. But it's an odd world: Founders chasing publicity on social media,...

I am just a brick-layer.

“Rome wasn’t built in a day but they were laying bricks every hour.” "The problem is that it can be really easy to overestimate the...

So you want to raise a fund (Part 2/4)

Designing a fund strategy [This is the second article in a four-part series on fundraising] Read the previous section on GP team. While...

We are business owners.

Someone asked me about paychecks recently. "Paycheck? What paycheck? We are business owners, we don't draw paychecks." Once you've owned...

So you want to raise a fund (Part 1/4)

[This is the first article in a 4-part series on fundraising] Team Composition Preface In the last four years, I’ve had the opportunity...

Three "epic fails" nearly wiped me clean.

That feeling of crumbling... Here are some of the things that i had learned from these experiences: 1) Despair and greed (both) drive...