Strategery

This blog post is taken from my book. Most successful VC-backed companies raise an average of three to seven VC funding rounds. When a company is raising its second or third VC funding round, the CEO,…

Porter's 5 Forces is a model that identifies and analyzes the competitive forces that shape every industry, and helps determine an industry's weaknesses and strengths.

Christoph’s Four P’s This morning, I noticed a particularly interesting tweetstorm from my friend Christoph Janz, whose success in building out Point Nine Ventures as one of the pre-eminent early-stag…

Beat the competition, no matter what industry you're in, with Michael Porter's Generic Strategies. Includes tips on how to apply each strategy.

Porter's Generic Competitive Strategies (ways of competing)

The outcomes someone who is good at focussing, and knows what to focus on, can generate far outweigh the horsepower of their input. In…