I need to declare a bias here. I used to raise money for companies. It's not what I do any more, but I like to think that I added value. So this post is written from my...

valuing a start-up is more art than science. You can argue at length about the team, the product and the market. You can point to comparable companies in the space or if you have an MBA and...

That was the original title of my post that is currently live on TechCrunch. In it, I argue that, despite a NESTA event last week bemoaning the lack of investment in games companies, there has never been...

For the last year, people have been asking me where are the big growth opportunities in games. I’ve answered Turkey and the Middle East. They are huge markets that have historically been of limited interest to traditional...

There is no such thing as an investor, because all are different. They have different risk profiles depending on the stage of their fund, the objectives of their limited partners, their personal preferences and their sense of...

Congratulations to Heiko Hubertz, Simon Guild and the rest of the team at Bigpoint. They’ve just sold a majority stake in Bigpoint for $350 million. But if you play Bigpoint’s games, and are hoping for a new raft...

One of the big trends in startup financing is that value is being created earlier in the life of a company and the VCs who want to invest before the value inflexion point increasingly need to evaluate...