Series: Venture Capital
The Market Is Wrong About Your Problems
What Voltaire and the Flaw at the Heart of Economics Have to Teach Us About Software That Doesn’t Exist.
Moving beyond Silicon Valley software companies
We need a new financing model to build new, better companies
If You Take Venture Capital, You’re Forcing Your Company To Exit
To understand venture capital, you must understand the consequences of how VCs return capital to their investors
Why the Most Successful VC Firms Keep Winning
The best companies seek out the most successful investors, and gains accumulate at the top
One Investor Isn’t Enough
A company’s success is highly reliant on peer validation of investor decisions. This stunts diversity and must change if we want the best founders working on the biggest opportunities.
Unicorns Distract Us from a Graveyard
Venture capital’s reliance on unicorns provides cover for the huge failure rate of startups, and investors make no effort to reduce it
Venture Capital Is Built on Serendipity
Software has as much potential as electrification or steam power, but instead the industry ignores markets and whole classes of people, which stunts how much it can affect our world
Venture Capital Is Ripe for Disruption
It’s time to develop new sources of capital for founders to help them solve their customer problems and avoid venture capital’s massive failure rate
Do I Hate Investors?
Of course not. But the fact that people think I do says a lot.
