I have been wondering of late if my rational heuristic driven approach to business selection is making me under reach. I feel I have been building and investing in reasonably “small projects” in the grand [...]
I just finished reading through all of them and found them very insightful. Some sections are useful to aspiring entrepreneurs as they cover the basics of financing, vesting, etc. Most sections are useful to all [...]
The first two times I raised VC money, until success simplified things, it occurred to me how the process really mimics real world dating. Observing many other entrepreneurs similarly struggling with the process over the [...]
With every day it becomes ever more apparent that Nike and Edison were right: genius is in the execution and not the idea. I don’t particularly like GoDaddy, but their latest ad is right on. [...]
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Erik Schatzker on Market Makers. We discussed why we would have passed on Facebook, Google and Pinterest at seed and the processes we use to maximize our [...]
I decided to relinquish my position as Co-CEO of OLX. My partner Alec is staying as CEO. Given how much of my life and soul I poured in the company and the many friends I [...]
I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Deidre Bolton on Bloomberg TV. We discussed the vagaries of investing in emerging markets. What was not discussed but is worth mentioning is how I ended up [...]
Fred Wilson just wrote an article, What Has Changed, in which he confirms the observation I made in a recent post (And then there were 100…) that Series A funding rounds [...]
I am an Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, student and lover of life, aspiring Renaissance man and co-founder of OLX, one of the largest free classfields sites in the world.