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Disrupters disrupted
The VC sector lacks something that venture capitalists consider essential for most technology startups: it is not “scalable”.
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Culture
Why I won’t run another startup
Note to my future self: Don’t call your projects ‘startups’. It’s a semantic trick, but a really important one. Here’s why.
Growth
Startup revenue milestones
"In my discussions with K9 portfolio founders about scaling revenue, I very often end up drawing the same picture."
Building a startup growth engine
To really scale and build towards escape velocity, you need to build a growth engine that delivers on repeatable and scaleable growth.
This article covers the 3 major parts of a well tuned Growth Engine.
Trends
Wave theory of startups: braving the funding, sales and hype cycles
Different pieces of the startup ride – sales, funding and hype – follow cycles. While the overall startup journey is high risk and high reward, these three cycles are predictable in many startups and always in the most valuable.
Product
Team
The management skills you need to lead your team
Leading a team is every kid’s dream. Who doesn’t want to be the hero that slays the enemy, gets the gold, and ultimately leads their people to success? But, the reality of leadership isn’t like the movies—it’s a lot more complicated.