For my friends not in the VC space, I wanted to share some learnings about what’s been happening in the market over the last year and how this is related to all these layoffs you see in the news and on LinkedIn.
Here are my learnings (from least to most effective), from Mark Ritson’s immensely insightful talk looking at 50 years of campaign data, and what really works in marketing.
In case you missed it: check out my primer on ICOs here! In 2017, ICOs have raised $3.3 billion USD across 203 different offerings. This works out to an average of $16M per project. Seems a bit excessive – especially…
You’ve heard this before, AI will take your job, cook your dinner, and then eat it for you. There’s been a lot of hype around “artificial intelligence”, “machine learning”, “neural networks”, “big data” etc, so if it still feels like…
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More often than not, the market sizing slide in a start-up’s pitch deck is useless. The problem is that founders view market sizing as as an exercise to strictly answer the following question(s): Is my market size greater than $1…