Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

This is part of my ongoing series “Startup Advice” If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please…

Angel Funding Advice

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC.

WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC

First Round Funding Terms and Founder Vesting

This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC”.

6 Tips for Using the @ sign in Twitter

There is much confusion on how to use the Twitter @ sign — even amongst daily Twitter users…

Founders, Ownership and Prenuptials

Yesterday I wrote a blog post in which I urged people to not have too many founders.

Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons

Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially…

The Best VC Meetings are Discussions not Sales

Embrace Losing — It Will Make You Stronger

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies.

Is VC Right for You?

I recently appeared on Fox Business News covering the topic of raising Venture Capital. If you’re in the market or…