The Quiet Part Out Loud
The Quiet Part Out Loud is my weekly blog on startups, VCs and the Canadian tech landscape. Scroll down for recent posts as well as categorized posts about:
How investors think and how VC as a business works
Fundraising
The founder journey
Canada and the Canadian tech ecosystem
Things I Think I Think (my quarterly musings)
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Recent Posts
Fundraising is hard enough before we add power dynamics and egos to the mix. So let’s try to be better as investors.
How often do you meet someone new and within 10 seconds get the feeling that they’re a transactional person?
Could Canada’s productivity crisis serve as the breaking point for a tech industry that historically stayed out of politics?
How Investors Think
Fundraising is hard enough before we add power dynamics and egos to the mix. So let’s try to be better as investors.
There are strong economic arguments for governments to help foster the creation of new venture funds to support their startup ecosystems. But how should they approach this?
The relationship between a founder and an investor can last 10 years or more. Just like any long-term relationship, you need to put in effort to stay aligned.
Fundraising
As an early-stage investor, velocity is the #1 thing I’m trying to measure when I meet with founders.
Plenty of posts have been written about how investors diligence startup founders, but how can founders diligence VCs?
One topic that gets founders riled up is the fact that many VCs won’t invest in solo founders. Why do solo founders make investors so nervous?
The Founder Journey
How often do you meet someone new and within 10 seconds get the feeling that they’re a transactional person?
As an early-stage investor, velocity is the #1 thing I’m trying to measure when I meet with founders.
The relationship between a founder and an investor can last 10 years or more. Just like any long-term relationship, you need to put in effort to stay aligned.
Canada
Could Canada’s productivity crisis serve as the breaking point for a tech industry that historically stayed out of politics?
There are strong economic arguments for governments to help foster the creation of new venture funds to support their startup ecosystems. But how should they approach this?
I’ve had the privilege of working with dozens of startup ecosystems around the world, and I can say from experience that along with death and taxes, one of the certainties of life is that every politician, journalist and armchair entrepreneur thinks that their city can be the next Silicon Valley.