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...
by admin | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Twice recently I helped founders negotiate successful tech exits and one of these founders is now sending me ideas for their next venture. To put some order on this ongoing discussion I wrote them this advice, below, and decided to post it here – for the...
by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
NVMdurance, with its unique approach to extending the endurance of flash devices and enabling 3D NAND, has announced that patent number 9,569,120 developed by Joe Sullivan and Conor Ryan, both of Limerick, Ireland, has been granted in the USA for Adaptive Flash...