This Week in Venture Capital...
Innovation & Tech Review Week 15/2022
I wish you and your loved ones a Happy Easter Weekend, Passover & Ramadan!
The future will be bright and full of wonders.
The grand re-opening is coming to all countries, and real-life conferences are coming back with it.
What is going on in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Investment in Week 15, 2022?
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The State of Digital Health
The longest bull market ever seems to be over on the public market.
What about the private tech market?
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I love their research reports about Tech and Venture Capital.
Here is one covering the state of digital health.
And it is for free:
4 Red Flags for VCs When Reviewing Pitches From Deep Tech Startups
Every deep tech company needs to do one thing in the early days of the company:
Fundraising from VCs
Why?
Usually, deeptech ideas are so big and disruptive that it is a long road to creating sufficient customer cash flow to maintain the operations and secure the company's growth.
Sometimes it takes 10–20 years to be cashflow positive with such companies.
The downside for society?
Wouldn’t VCs not exist, those companies won’t move forward.
An important technology that changes society for the better wouldn’t move forward.
Disruptive founders must understand the art of pitching.
This article defines 4 red flags that every founder can avoid. One is:
VCs want to meet you. Because our work together begins at such an early stage, you are the only part of the company that exists today and will play a critical role in the years to come. It is common to have paid consultants or members of a university tech transfer office representing an academic team. This is a red flag for most VCs I know.
Don’t do it 🙂
When founders see a person with a valuable reputation, network, and expertise, the way forward is to put this person on board level and let them pitch for the company as part of the company.
If you want to know what the other three red flags are, read the article below:
4 red flags for VCs when reviewing pitches from deep tech startups
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2 Podcasts from this week:
How to Rescue a Clinical Trial with Heike Schön, Lumis International
Stock Investing Masterclass w/ Bryan Lawrence (TIP440)
1 Youtube Takeaway from this week
Books I am reading this week
From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we've experienced in our lifetimes - but similar to those that have happened many times before.
A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945. This realisation sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years.
In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires - including the Dutch, the British and the American - putting into perspective the 'Big Cycle' that has driven the successes and failures of all the world's major countries throughout history.
Dalio reveals the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and uses them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what's ahead.
— Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
Best Quote From This Week
“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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