Interview I did about Forward Partners for Soldo
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by Nic Brisbourne
4y ago
See below for a good description of what we like to see in deals at Forward Partners and what makes us different from other VCs. I gave the interview last year, and it was published this week on the Soldo blog. An interview with Nic Brisbourne, Forward Partners Nic Brisbourne is Managing Partner at Forward Partners, the UK’s leading early-stage VC, currently supporting the UK’s next generation of AI, e-commerce and marketplace businesses. He has been personally responsible for over 40 investments including Zeus Technology, Unbound, Conversocial, StrikeAd and Lyst. Nic is also the aut ..read more
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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC
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by Nic Brisbourne
5y ago
When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. I remember one enterprising journalist judging VCs on the basis of how much their handicaps had gone down. Low handicaps weren’t good! During this time, cash was scarce and VCs were firmly in control. Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. Decades later, things couldn’t be more different. After about twenty years of different forms of value-added services in VC, it feels l ..read more
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The Equity Kicker returns – now writing about the future of VC and meditation
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by Nic Brisbourne
5y ago
Between 2006 and 2016, I wrote something on this blog almost every working day. It was a huge effort but I loved it. People often asked me how I found the time, but when you see value in something, you almost always simply make the time. That value for me has been not only in distilling and consolidating my thoughts – but also reaching and engaging with a much broader audience than I would be able to otherwise.  But by 2016 things had changed a lot, which meant blogging slowly but surely taking a back seat. We were now three years in at Forward Partners and it was increasingly obvious that ..read more
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