I recently had a great time translating my contracts and bank account data into a fully fledged P&L of my … More
Category: Start Ups
Material for Founders and Entrepreneurs
Using sell-side M&A advisors
Not all founders raise funds run their investor pipeline on their own. Especially serial entrepreneurs make use of investment bankers … More
Pre-Seed: Charme
How do you get together a team of employees, co-founders, advisors, customers and investors when you literally have nothing at … More
Underwriting: Explained
When dealing with securities, IPOs or any type of activity that is related with the transfer of a security, it … More
Emotions
Managing with emotions is always something that can be very helpful to create an engaged and motivated workforce. But there … More
Fail Fast. Fail Forward. Decision-debt in start-ups.
A few thoughts about “moving quickly with building a product” approach. All here is my personal opinion and might change … More
More on Reps and Warranties
In my last article I was writing about some pitfalls in the reps and warranties. Today I want to write … More
A tale of a Service-to-Product Pivot
The ugly truth about service to product pivots with VC money in the bank.
Designing a VC Fund around a Technology Thesis
A small exercise into sizing of a Venture Fund. A hypothetical fund is created based on assumption of talent supply along the Gartner Hype Cycle. From there, the cash demand of the market is calculated and sanity checks on fund sizing are helping to size the P&L and AUM of the fund.
A Fund Approach to Project Financing
This article explores a legal structure for asset financing. We will walk through the key problems, the legal structures, etc.