Alan Jones

Many non-technical woman founders express reluctance to ask too many questions of their (predominantly male) tech teams and engineers. Their reasoning is it can trigger their imposter syndrome.

The viability of your business inevitably depends on the viability of the society, economy, and natural ecosystem it exists within.

We haven’t yet closed our first fund but have decided to put the M8 Ventures partnership into sleep mode until there is more certainty in …

For every 100 good candidates, there might be only a few in the right personal, financial, legal and emotional state to consider joining a startup.

Alan Jones continues to run, even though he is terribly slow, because spending time doing things we’re bad at is kind of the point of, well, life.

“The most common mistake I see in new tech startups is when a team believes that success is mainly about building a great technology product.”

It’s generally very difficult to raise investment for a startup with no customers and no revenue. However, there are at least three ways to go.

Are you ready to partner up with a technical co-founder? Here are some things to consider first, and some tips for finding your diamond in the rough.

One of the most difficult things about being from the future* is that most people think I’m crazy until what I predict actually happens, at …

If you want to be a successful angel investor, only invest in startups which:

Are solving problems you understand;
For customers you c…

 

Most founders are surprised or think I’m confused when I describe their startup as a marketplace.

 

They are used to …