Venture capitalists are a lucky lot. Their work is prestigious, the pay can be exceptional, and they’re educated daily by smart entrepreneurs. One job hazard, however, is missed opportunities. For example, many in Silicon Valley passed on Uber, one of the fastest-growing companies on the planet. (To his credit, Uber’s hard-charging CEO, Travis Kalanick, appears […]
Manu Kumar
StrictlyVC: March 3, 2014
Good morning, everyone! How about those Oscar ceremonies? What a great night, including for Twitter and Samsung and pizza everywhere. (We think it’s fair to say they won the ghost Oscar for product placement this year, and we heartily congratulate them.) —– Top News in the A.M. Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is not letting this eBay-Skype argument […]
VC Manu Kumar on Lone Wolves
When I first met Manu Kumar of K9 Ventures, nearly five years ago, he was a successful entrepreneur who was trying to break into micro VC and he was going it alone. As he said then, “I didn’t want to jump into partnering with someone just because it fulfills an LP criteria.” He still doesn’t want […]