About Me
Hi. I'm Mike Kane, a Philadelphia guy investing in early stage venture companies. I co-founded Pour Richards as a way to bring interesting people together to talk about ideas. This saved me the enormous trouble of having to be interesting myself.Pages
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Tag Archives: entrepreneur
Why Successful Entrepreneurs Are So Rare
Success as an entrepreneur requires an extremely rare blend of enormous self-confidence and an abiding willingness to be shown wrong and to self-correct. Continue reading
Posted in Observations, Venture Capital
Tagged conditions for success, confirmation bias, entrepreneur, success
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Two Questions Entrepreneurs Almost Always Answer Wrong
Entrepreneurs almost always go wrong when answering basic questions on their valuation expectations and on competition. Continue reading
Posted in Financial markets, Venture Capital
Tagged advice for entrepreneurs, business valuation, competitive analysis, entrepreneur, pitching a VC, Venture Capital
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Advice for Entrepreneurs Pitching a VC
Six suggestions for entrepreneurs on how to make an initial pitch to a VC. Continue reading
The Lack of Alignment in Venture Funds
In an earlier post, I discussed the problem of vintage year risks found in traditional venture funds. There is an additional problem around the lack of alignment between the GP and the LP, and again between the GP and the … Continue reading
Posted in Traditional Venture Model, Uncategorized, Venture Capital
Tagged alignment, entrepreneur, GP, LP, management fees, venture, Venture Capital, venture fees
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