Silicon Valley finally goes global – good for some but not others
The VC Fund model has a strange paradox. It breeds scalable global giants while remaining defiantly small and ...
Tag: innovation capital
Waiting for the Angel List liquidity Shoe to Drop
Yesterday’s post was about how Angel List ratchets up the disruption of the VC business with the world’s largest seed ...
How to Create a Unicorn in 4 Difficult Steps
I am using Unicorn as short hand for a $ billion of value created in a few years. The word ...
Unicorns, Risk & Antifragility
Unicorn hunting does not mean that you love risk. Nobody sensible loves risk. Risk is to be avoided if possible ...
The terminology of Venture Capital is ridiculous & disconnected from reality
When reality changes fundamentally but the terminology has not changed we get things as ridiculous as: – Seed Rounds on ...
How Global Banks can make ‘Acquire Hire’ work in Fintech using the Pirate model
Acquire Hire tends to mean: The venture raised small amounts of capital (Friends & Family, Angels) but could not do ...
Banks Need to Create a Fintech Unicorn EVERY YEAR
In startup land, we rightly laud the achievement of creating a Unicorn. Creating a business worth $1 billion in a ...
Change the Bank by Importing StartUp Culture
Creating a great start-up is incredibly hard, but it is easy compared to fundamentally transforming a big business.
Swiss Banks could create a different model for Fintech innovation capital
On Monday, the Fintech City Tour took a return trip to Zurich, where I moderated a Meetup Panel with three ...
