I don’t intend this to be a very long post. It’s mostly a musing. Why are founders the best people to run their companies? If you look at most of them, they’re erratic, iconoclastic and relatively inexperienced at building companies. They don’t have the structure that MBA types have. So it often seems to be […]
Tag: startups
Ten Important Metrics for a Start-up (and most businesses)
I recently interviewed with a start up in Nigeria to understand what they look for in their finance employees and also to get a sense of the quality of thinking available in the space, as the Internet companies grow and become more important to the country. The start up will remain unnamed, but I was […]
Startup Outlook 2016.
If you follow tech start ups, especially those clustered in the almighty Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, then you’ve likely heard of the Silicon Valley Bank. If you’ve not, there’s not that much to it except that someone rightly saw, in 1982, the explosion of companies and set up a bank in the area to […]
These Guys Want to Help You Invest in Startups Before They IPO
Or are they? I found a curious thing. It’s an exchange called Sandhill Exchange that claims to help you invest in hot startups before they go public. Which lately, as we all know, has become the best time to invest in them (I mean companies are raising private funding rounds of $2billion. We’ve had IPOs ten […]
