The UK is getting a lot of bad press lately because of Brexit - which tends to overshadow the fact that the UK is ranked by the World Bank as the least costly place to start a business (along with Slovenia), and the 8th easiest country to do busin... Show All...
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I just landed in Dubai from Helsinki, where I heard (and overheard) any number of pitches from startups attending the SLUSH event... Show All...
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Last night, I watched a video presented by Richard Wilson, CEO of the Family Office Club, that I thought did a very good job of covering many of the core, operational and deal flow management problems faced by family offices... Show All...
After a year and a half of positioning ourselves as "data driven venture investment", we've decided it's time to update the way we communicate the strategy behind Hatcher+... Show All...
Today's family offices are investing in venture capital deals at an exponentially growing rate... Show All...
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Two days from now, the world's first early-stage, globally-focused, exchange-tradable VC fund will be open for business - I'm talking of course about our very own Hatcher+ H2 fund, which will list on the Euronext (Amsterdam) and Wiener Bourse exchang... Show All...
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This week at SLUSH Singapore, I gave a presentation on the New Rules of Fundraising - how entrepreneurs can prepare for the new, data-driven startup ecosystem powered by AI-based engines such as HAL (YCombinator) and DART (Hatcher) ... Show All...
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This week, Elon Musk and the heads of a number of technology companies warned against the development and deployment of ''killer robots''... Show All...
I listened to a BBC Radio interview today with Mary Williams, the adopted daughter of Jane Fonda, and there was one part of the interview that I just found riveting, because I'm not sure that I've ever heard "the absence of hope" so clearly articulat... Show All...
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I just finished reading comments related to the news on the 500 blog that Dave McClure is stepping down as CEO at 500 Startups... Show All...
Let me skip the preamble and just come out and say it: most startups suck at reporting... Show All...
In 1908, Henri Poincare, the famous French mathematician, and pioneer of what we now call machine learning, wrote down what would later become the four stages of the "Gestalt" model of learning and psychology: Saturation, Incubation, Inspiration, an... Show All...
Almost a year ago, my Hatcher partners and I went looking for data that would give us an indication of our progress vis a vis the rest of our colleagues in venture capital... Show All...
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One of the hardest things about being a startup founder is staying positive in the face of constant, and often intellectually exhausting criticism... Show All...
There's a lot of opinions available regarding the best choice of KPIs for startups - but what about the investors behind the startups? What are the KPIs that venture guys should be aware of? Here's nine suggestions from Hatcher:1... Show All...
The problem involving whether to build or buy a cloud-based data platform to serve your workspace’s growing needs involves come complex issues... Show All...
100,000 - that's how many PC's the new advertising campaign from Microsoft and Intel could have put into startups or schools this week, by using their $70,000,000 ad campaign more smartly... Show All...
I just got back from three days in Manila - first time I've been in several years... Show All...
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People are generally impressed when they find out I've recently put six long years into learning about database design, programming, and UI design... Show All...
In November, Harveen and I got the chance to visit Tehran and discovered a population almost the size of Germany and an emerging market that is about to become a "must go" destination (see "Reading Term Sheets in Tehran") - so last week, when I was i... Show All...
Last week, I visited our new partners in the beating heart of South America - Sao Paulo and Rio... Show All...
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If you're an older CEO running a startup, chances are you're running a Hatcher startup... Show All...
Telr, the merchant payment platform we created last October, and merged with Dubai-based Innovate Payments in June this year, has just completed an over-subscribed Series A fund-raising, led by Hatcher and iMENA, based in Amman, Jordan... Show All...
Charles Moldow posted a thoughtful article yesterday on TechCrunch entitled "How A Trillion-Dollar Market Remains Hidden In Plain Sight", arguing that there is a massive opportunity in financing non-bank financial services... Show All...
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I had a meeting yesterday with the CEO of an entrepreneurial hardware venture that is looking for funding from us... Show All...
Pitching a new business proposition to an investor isn't rocket science - in fact, the most effective pitches involve, of all things, empathy... Show All...
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There's a lot of blog posts out there about why startups shouldn't use convertible notes to raise capital... Show All...
The truth is rarely told but known by everyone: not every founder of a start-up does an equal amount of work... Show All...
The idea behind Hatcher is, simply put, the application of the emerging crowd-funding model to investors that are sophisticated and experienced, and entrepreneurs that are executing on their vision for market leadership... Show All...
While browsing in an airport bookstore, I recently came across a copy of Business Model Generation - a Wiley publication written by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur... Show All...
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The founder of a company I'm an adviser to recently asked me for tips on creating a PowerPoint presentation for his upcoming investor roadshow... Show All...
One of my partner investors in Heardable sent me along a link to a deck the other day from the Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc... Show All...
I just had a meeting with a buddy and he got mad at me because he felt that he'd crossed a threshold in terms of what his technology could achieve and, for whatever reason, I wasn't buying it (enough)... Show All...
Over the past twenty years, the folks behind this site have helped a number of entrepreneurs and startup companies raise tens of millions of dollars from venture investors... Show All...
A number of years back, I was approached by a company in that needed some help finding a strategic partner... Show All...
A couple of days ago, I posted a blog entitled 5 Easy Steps to a Great Business Plan and some of you were kind enough to email me with some kind words about it... Show All...
Writing a great business plan (and I've authored and co-authored dozens of plans) is not that hard... Show All...
The Visionary Essential to any new company's success, but may appear mad/dormant/useless to staff members other than the Wise Man, and especially to the Willing Slaves... Show All...
As exciting as it can be to watch the growth of a single-cell idea into a company, sometimes the cells don't divide fast enough for the organism to survive... Show All...
This list is designed to work as a process flow chart - if you are missing any of these items, you shouldn't, in my opinion, proceed to the next one - unless you're a proven serial entrepreneur, in which case you can reduce this list to th... Show All...
I just re-read Peter Drucker's "Three Functions of the Board"... Show All...
I met with a friend the other day who is looking for capital for his new startup... Show All...
I was giving a phone recommendation for an investment banking friend yesterday and while talking about the work we've done together, the interviewer touched on a VC investment that we closed fourteen years ago... Show All...
The first time I heard the term "due diligence", as a budding entrepreneur, I had absolutely no idea what it meant... Show All...
David Rose, a serial entrepreneur-turned-VC partner who speaks faster than just about any man on the planet, has a terrific video up at Ted... Show All...
Despite thousands of web pages listing advice on pitching to VCs, many world-be entrepreneurs (and some advice-givers) still fail to include two very important elements in their pitches: 1... Show All...
Many years ago, after the closing of the first round of financing for my first venture-backed company, the investors and founders went out for dinner in a very nice restaurant to celebrate... Show All...
We were about an hour into a board meeting the other day when the management team laid an extremely impressive year over year growth figure on the table for the first two quarters of 2008... Show All...
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