Wednesday, December 5, 2018 - I just landed in Dubai from Helsinki, where I heard (and overheard) any number of pitches from startups attending the SLUSH event... Show All...
Friday, October 5, 2018 - Last month, we invested in one new startup every day - a rate that now ranks us as the most active venture investor in the world (or at the very least, among the top three... Show All...
Saturday, September 15, 2018 - 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...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 - I met Glenn Argenbright just under a year ago, and it didn't take long for me to realize just how awesome the firm he and his partners were building really was... Show All...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - 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...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 - Our first foray into India!I'm delighted to announce our latest partnership and our first foray into the Indian startup ecosystem... Show All...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018 - Another week, another great partnership! Excited to announce that we are officially partnered with Chicago-based Sente Foundry, a startup accelerator and innovation scouting platform... Show All...
Friday, July 27, 2018 - LVenture Group, a holding company listed on the Italian stock exchange as a digital startup investor, has signed a co-investment partnership with Hatcher+, a unique, data-driven venture firm... Show All...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - Innova Memphis, the most active startup investor in the Southern United States according to Crunchbase, and Hatcher+, a unique, data-driven venture firm, have announced a partnership to co-invest in startups accepted into the Memphis, Tenn... Show All...
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 - Cofounders Capital, an early-stage software venture fund in Cary, North Carolina, and Hatcher+, a unique, data-driven venture firm, have announced a partnership to co-invest in start-ups accepted into the Cofounders Capital Accelerator... Show All...
Monday, May 28, 2018 - At Hatcher+, we are using machine learning to help evaluate investment opportunities... Show All...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - Today's family offices are investing in venture capital deals at an exponentially growing rate... Show All...
Sunday, May 6, 2018 - For many people starting their first startup, venture capital is like some kind of "black box" that operates according to frustrating, sometimes complex rules that are designed for industry insiders, not first-time entrepreneurs... Show All...
Saturday, March 31, 2018 - Investors that are active in VC have already made the decision to allocate capital to that area... Show All...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - Blue Startups, the Hawaii-based accelerator, and Hatcher+, a unique, data-driven venture firm have announced a partnership to co-invest in startups accepted into the nationally ranked Blue Startups Accelerator Program... Show All...
Sunday, March 11, 2018 - The process of selecting startups gets a lot of focus when talking about accelerators - and deservedly so... Show All...
Saturday, February 17, 2018 - If you're a venture capitalist reading this headline, please take a moment and check your gut reaction to the question being posed here... Show All...
Saturday, January 27, 2018 - 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...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 - Yesterday, we put out an announcement about a data-sharing partnership we're building with Funderbeam, an emerging blockchain-powered exchange, that we expect will result in a new way for startups to find funding... Show All...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 - Six months ago, when Bitcoin was trading at US$2,150 or thereabouts, I was attending a conference in Seoul when an economist/fund manager named Mark Yusko made a bullish statement in an otherwise bearish sea of predictions around global asset valu... Show All...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 - One question I get asked a lot on investor panels these days is "what makes a great CEO?" To me, the answer is simple: the best CEOs make sure that investors are never, ever surprised - by the Big Stuff... Show All...
Sunday, November 5, 2017 - Over the past 12 months, I have been lucky enough to meet a wide variety of accelerators and early stage investors around the world as we build out our Hatcher+ co-investment network... Show All...
Saturday, October 28, 2017 - When we do research into venture investing at Hatcher+, we slice and dice our early stage investment data in many different ways... Show All...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - Venture capitalists are experts when it comes to scaling... Show All...
Saturday, September 23, 2017 - 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...
Saturday, September 2, 2017 - Hatcher+ has done a lot of analysis on startup ecosystems in various places around the world during the past two years... Show All...
Monday, August 21, 2017 - This week, Elon Musk and the heads of a number of technology companies warned against the development and deployment of ''killer robots''... Show All...
Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 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...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017 - There is a rising realization in the world that we are currently just treading water with respect to the creation of new jobs, and that AI and robots are eventually going to take our jobs - as in pretty-much *all* of our jobs... Show All...
Sunday, July 2, 2017 - 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...
Friday, June 9, 2017 - Let me skip the preamble and just come out and say it: most startups suck at reporting... Show All...
Saturday, September 17, 2016 - On the heels of the most recent posts from John Sharp, one of my partners at Hatcher, I got to thinking it is high time I wrote my first post... Show All...
Saturday, April 1, 2017 - 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...
Saturday, September 17, 2016 - On the heels of the most recent posts from John Sharp, one of my partners at Hatcher, I got to thinking it is high time I wrote my first post... Show All...
Friday, September 9, 2016 - 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...
Friday, June 9, 2017 - The first thing you need to know about Hatcher is that Hatcher combines a workflow solution for investors with a data analysis platform, to provide a complete, next-generation investment platform for venture... Show All...
Thursday, February 18, 2016 - 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...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - The linked page below gives a summary of some pivotal moments in the amazing business success of India's Maroo family... Show All...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 - 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...
Monday, January 11, 2016 - 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...
Monday, November 2, 2015 - I represented Hatcher at the Asian Business Angels Forum in Queenstown, New Zealand, on 15-16 October 2015... Show All...
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 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...
Sunday, September 13, 2015 - I just got back from three days in Manila - first time I've been in several years... Show All...
Monday, June 15, 2015 - If there existed an award category for "most unrewarding, misunderstood, underrated job on the planet", the strongest contender for that title would, in my opinion, be "Head of Sales... Show All...
Saturday, March 28, 2015 - 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...
Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 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...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - Last week, I visited our new partners in the beating heart of South America - Sao Paulo and Rio... Show All...
Friday, November 7, 2014 - Non-performing startups are not always easy to spot... Show All...
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - If you're an older CEO running a startup, chances are you're running a Hatcher startup... Show All...
Thursday, October 23, 2014 - 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...
Monday, October 6, 2014 - 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...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - Yes - after almost a year of "self-incubation", Hatcher... Show All...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 - First, a disclaimer... Show All...
Monday, August 18, 2014 - I had a meeting yesterday with the CEO of an entrepreneurial hardware venture that is looking for funding from us... Show All...
Friday, August 8, 2014 - 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...
Thursday, November 7, 2013 - Every day, I meet entrepreneurs who are struggling to raise their first real round of funding... Show All...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013 - One of the most vexing problems for startups is figuring out what revenue model to apply... Show All...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013 - Money hates being idle... Show All...
Thursday, July 18, 2013 - There's a lot of blog posts out there about why startups shouldn't use convertible notes to raise capital... Show All...
Thursday, July 11, 2013 - The truth is rarely told but known by everyone: not every founder of a start-up does an equal amount of work... Show All...
Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 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...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 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...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - So you're about to go meet with a VC... Show All...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 - 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...
Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 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...
Friday, June 25, 2010 - 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...
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 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...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - A number of years back, I was approached by a company in that needed some help finding a strategic partner... Show All...
Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 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...
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - Writing a great business plan (and I've authored and co-authored dozens of plans) is not that hard... Show All...
Sunday, March 7, 2010 - 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...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 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...
Monday, September 7, 2009 - 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...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - I just re-read Peter Drucker's "Three Functions of the Board"... Show All...
Sunday, April 12, 2009 - I met with a friend the other day who is looking for capital for his new startup... Show All...
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 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...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - The first time I heard the term "due diligence", as a budding entrepreneur, I had absolutely no idea what it meant... Show All...
Sunday, September 28, 2008 - 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...
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 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...
Friday, September 19, 2008 - 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...
Sunday, September 14, 2008 - 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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