by Pique Ventures | Jun 25, 2019 | Books, Capital raising, Fund Your Business, Investing Ideas, Pique Fund, Social Enterprise, Systems, Women Investing in Women, Women Investors
Photo credit: Unsplash | @guesh1337 “Get out of the building!” – Steve Blank For some people, getting out of the building is easy and comes naturally to them. For others, getting out of the building requires coming to terms with vulnerability. Perhaps Steve...
by Pique Ventures | Jun 11, 2019 | Capital raising, Crowdfunding, Fund Your Business, Innovation, Uncategorized, Vision, Women Investing in Women
Building a new firm in venture capital from scratch is not easy. Traditionally it has been the domain of former investment bankers and exited entrepreneurs. There are now some interesting entrants to the industry such as writers, podcasters, and very determined forces...
by Pique Ventures | May 28, 2019 | Big Ideas, Events, Fund Your Business, Innovation
What is Your Impact Investment Thesis?An investment thesis is to an investor like a value proposition is to an entrepreneur. You get asked what your thesis is all the time. As you get started, you’ll need to test out your thesis and see if any entrepreneurs want your...
by Pique Ventures | Apr 16, 2019 | Fund Your Business, Impact investing, Impact investment, Pique Fund, Tools
Pique Ventures invests in a community of diverse leaders creating technologies with long-term utility and companies that care, connect, and protect. Our Impact Lens We invest in ventures that improve access to essential resources. To us, impact investing is about...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Mar 20, 2018 | Capital raising, Fund Your Business
Whether it’s private venture capital or institutional finance, relationships and network matter. Researchers found that “In short, many VCs show a preference for networks rather than arm’s-length, spot-market transactions.” Researchers found that...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Apr 25, 2017 | Events, Fund Your Business
I remember attending manager training as an auditor at Deloitte early on in my career. One of the sessions was on negotiations. Split up into teams, we had to negotiate over some resource produced on a plot of land. The teams that successfully reached agreement...
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