Hot in Enterprise IT/VC - What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #373
What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #373Thoughts on M&A in light of Adobe Figma, what's the right number of founders to start a company, + Top 5 What's 🔥 Posts in 2023What a way to end 2023 with the Adobe Figma merger cancelled. There has already been a ton of commentary from investors, but I can’t help myself so will weigh in with a few thoughts.
Switching gears, a wise VC once told me:
There has been a lot of discussion this year about boards and governance, and as I thought about this analogy, I also believe it extends to the number of founders to start a company: More from a recent LinkedIn post: Here’s the data from boldstart Fund IV & V representing 41 portfolio companies. Solo founder: 9 or 22% 2 co-founders: 28 or 68% 3 co-founders: 4 or 10% To be clear, this is a tiny sample set in the universe of data. However, anecdotally I can tell that if you are a solo founder and starting a company, challenge yourself to find another partner as you can build faster, and it’s more fun. However, don’t bring on a co-founder because you think you have to or because you think you need one to get funded - ultimate trust and faith and clear division of responsibilities is super important. In fact, if you choose the wrong co-founder, it can set you back even more than just by building yourself. Within the 2 co-founder bucket, there were 8 co-founder breakups or approximately 20% of all companies we backed at inception. Don’t rush into a relationship; ideal co-founders come from working together on previous companies, make sure you spend a lot of time together. If you decide to go solo, make sure you find other ways to create that sparring partner environment - some tips below 👇🏼: Finally, I want to 🙏🏼 all of you for being here on the journey with me and reading this newsletter and sharing your thoughts. To that end, here’s the Top 5 What’s 🔥 IT/VC From 2023!
Here was the #1 clicked on link this year: Back to Basics Building Startups from Inception - some random notes As always, 🙏🏼 for reading and please share with your friends and colleagues! Happy Holidays to all of you. Scaling Startups
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What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #372
Saturday, December 16, 2023
On pattern recognition in venture and startups
What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #371
Saturday, December 9, 2023
Back to First Principles Building Startups from Inception, hands on keyboard ⌨️ - get the Google Doc now
What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #370
Saturday, December 2, 2023
The End of an era - the extinction of "Hypergrowth" public enterprise software cos, >40% NTM Revenue 📈 - Guggenheim Partners
What's 🔥 in Enterprise IT/VC #369
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Selling what's on the 🚚 vs. the one more feature trap - importance of the right ICP
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Saturday, November 18, 2023
Thoughts on board governance
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