Adventure Capitalist

Venture capital is experiencing a sea change. Consider just a few of the things we’ve witnessed in recent years: A 20x increase in the number of seed funds deploying capital in and around Silic...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2020/03/09/traditional-late-stage-vc-is-being-disrupted-heres-how/

                  Before the last New Year’s Eve sparkler flickered out on January 1 there was already plenty of hand-wringing over the direction of the venture and technology markets ...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/2016-the-road-ahead/

According to the business maxim, you can always tell who the leader is in a given market: it’s the one with all the arrows sticking out of its back. While this axiom is applicable across the b...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/is-the-daily-deal-backlash-overblown/

I recently met with a promising startup led by a husband-and-wife founding team. This was not a standard investor pitch meeting. I had known the husband of the duo for several years and agreed to...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/why-vcs-rarely-back-family-founders/

I recently had a twitter exchange with early stage venture investor Mark Suster over the issue of being “too early” as a venture capitalist and what that means in the current climate. While ...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/when-investing-too-early-isnt-wrong/

The LinkedIn IPO came out with a bang Thursday and in the intervening 72 hours the offering has already provoked sweeping re-assessments and re-appraisals of technology markets in general and t...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/taking-stock-of-our-netscape-moment/

  Perhaps no subject in the venture/tech start-up ecosystem over the past year has received greater attention–and been the focus of more collective hand-wringing–than the issue of bubble/not...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/a-bubble-over-bubbles/

With little argument, there has been much written recently on the revival in consumer internet. While there is no shortage of micro-themes behind the current innovation boom in companies focused...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/the-art-of-the-pivot/

Last week I had one of those conversations that kept re-asserting itself in other discussions in the days that followed. The conversation itself was not confrontation nor was the subject matter...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/some-thoughts-on-transparency/

This being January it is fitting that we take a look at the next twelve months and consider themes that will likely come to define the new year. Given the intense pace of innovation across IT b...

https://jonathantower.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/8-tech-trends-for-2011/