by admin | Mar 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
Deeptech/scientist founders are often pressured to appoint an experienced/commercial person as CEO of their new their venture – or they themselves think that they should be replaced. Pearse Coyle of Deeptech Seed Fund considers this issue and presents the case...
by admin | Sep 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Fund-raising for anything can seem daunting and the process complicated. It’s even more challenging when it is for a big-science-based/deeptech venture and no investor can understand what it is that you are setting out to do. In March 2021 Nick Richards and...
by admin | Aug 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
I had the crazy/novel idea of trying to explain the connection between the initial revenue from the pilot customers of a deeptech startup and the ultimate value of that venture on a stock-market years later. The good people of the fantastic HighTechXL incubator in The...
by admin | Apr 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Thanks to Alan Armstrong from the Xrepreneurs incubator in Munich for interviewing me on the Strong Startup podcast recently. Amongst other things: From 39 minutes in I describe the importance of getting paid early adopters From 43...
by admin | Oct 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
At the risk of sounding excessively arrogant, to various European venture capital providers, last week at the Deeptech Founders incubator in Paris I set out the unique position of our as-yet-unproven Deeptech Seed Fund. In particular I explained how the existing...
