When I am working on the technical due diligence of a startup company before VC investment, one of my goals is determining in what ways the technology being built affects the company’s strategy: how (and if) it contributes to the product’s defensibility.
Technology is not the only way to create…
(Initially, this was a Facebook post. When my American friends started resharing it even though it was in Polish — apparently it translates fine — I decided to write an English version.)
SARS-CoV-2 is still at large, and the responsible thing to do is practicing social distancing: that seems the…
In January 2019 I joined Inovo Venture Partners. After being always on the startup side of the table, the experience has been eye opening. Here are a few things that surprised me.
Many startup founders trying to raise money tend to see venture capitalists as gatekeepers. They stand between them…
Let’s say that you are hiring for your engineering team. You go through the usual motions. You put up an ad on the Internet, you receive some résumés. You sift through them to find the promising candidates. You invite them for interviews. Your engineers spend time interviewing them, and finally…
We are in the middle of an AI boom. Machine Learning experts command extraordinary salaries, investors are happy to open their hearts and checkbooks when meeting AI startups. And rightly so: this is one of those transformational technologies that occur once per generation. …
A software house is a very common type of business in my part of the world. It is a company employing engineers to work on software products, and sells the IP created in its entirety (or almost) to the customer. In Poland these are usually small to medium operations (5…
Business books were not my usual genre. However, I had some time on my hands this December, and went from one amazing recommendation to another. What they all have in common is that they significantly changed the way I think about some aspect of work, or startups, or doing business…
