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First Order Principles Category
Value investing in startups?
Posted on March 31, 2020 Leave a Comment
Could value investing techniques be applied to early stage investing in startups?
Accelerating the fight against climate change
Posted on March 5, 2020 Leave a Comment
How would you spend a million dollars to fight against climate change?.
Social subsidy for startups?
Posted on February 20, 2020 Leave a Comment
Is angel impact investing worth the time and risks?
Sharing Deal Flow: a system
Posted on February 6, 2020 1 Comment
Best practices for the sharing of deal flow.
Valuation of seed stage startups
Posted on January 21, 2020 1 Comment
I don’t care that much about valuation, and thus pay slight attention to this parameter when deciding whether to invest or not in a startup. Apparently, I am not the only one. In a recent post, Sam Altman, of YC fame, provided his recipe for successful investment in startups, which doesn’t mention valuation at all. […]
Fundraising – Angel Investor Perspective
Posted on December 18, 2019 Leave a Comment
How to extract maximum value from your investors. Do you want to herd fat cats? What is wrong with having an atomized shareholding?.
From Impact First to 100% impact portfolio
Posted on November 19, 2019 2 Comments
Why don’t you have a 100% impact portfolio in which all your asset classes are deployed in impact investments? When I started investing I didn’t care a lot whether my investments had any positive impact or not; this was just an afterthought held somewhere in the back of my mind. I just was squarely driven […]
Exactly what is social impact?
Posted on October 21, 2019 2 Comments
Social enterprise is the use of business to solve social problems. The companies in my impact portfolio provide some clear examples: Solaris Offgrid is in the business of selling solar home systems in Tanzania to provide access to energy to isolated villages and also supplies the software enabling kitchen stoves to become Pay as you […]
