Making AI Make Sense to Investors
Translating Tech to Traction: Keys to Selling AI Startups In the middle of the AI gold rush, building a great software product isn’t enough—you also have to sell it. Many …
Changing the Startup Playbook
The Shift: From Big Teams to AI-Driven Efficiency For years, Silicon Valley startups followed a funding-first, scale-fast model—raising massive venture capital rounds, hiring aggressively, and worrying about profitability later. But …
Going Public in 2025: Market Realities
For many entrepreneurs, taking a company public is the ultimate milestone—an opportunity to unlock liquidity, raise capital, and scale operations. However, timing is everything. Market conditions, shaped by inflation, regulatory …
Board AI Readiness Checklist
📌 Board AI Readiness Checklist As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a key driver of business strategy and innovation, boards of directors must ensure their organizations are prepared to leverage AI …
Managing Technology for Profit
Written by Prometheus Equity Pty Ltd partner Robert Muir for entrepreneurs, Managing Technology for Profit, A Small Business Guide, is designed as simple, down-to-earth, evergreen street-smarts guide. Chapters covering strategy, …
What’s the ‘Tell’ of a successful entrepreneur/adviser?
When you first meet an entrepreneur/adviser, how can you tell within the first few minutes whether s/he is likely to be successful/helpful? And worth spending the time to learn more …
Going Global–Start with Your End in Mind
As a first screen for new business opportunities, particularly the tech-kind, my non-tech business partner devised three simple questions to ask our potential partners: 1) is it doable, 2) is …
The Great Creativity Turn Off
Interesting take by Shelly Gare, SMH Good Weekend 6Oct18, on the overuse of the word “innovation” on both sides of the street. Great quote by Mark Dodgson, professor of innovation studies …
Silicon Valley by the Sea
I have had mentoring/investing #investments #mentoring experience in Silicon Valley (CA), Silicon Alley (NY), Silicon Glen (UK), and across our own pond NZ but now, right in our own backyard we have a …
National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) updated its Series A financings legal docs.
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) updated its model legal documents for Series A financings. The model agreements were first created in the early 2000s under the auspices of the …