Tom White

Every company has to become a media company -- because every company needs to master the technologies of publishing to their customers, staff, neighbors, and to raise their media profile against their competitors.I realized that every company is now a media company. It doesn't matter if it makes network gear or diapers, every company needs to... See more

Local market conditions will undoubtedly continue to fluctuate. By targeting markets with sizable momentum at a given funding stage or within a particular vertical, both startups and their investors can gain a true edge.For example, TechCrunch recently analyzed African startup valuation trends and found more robust tailwinds out of Kenya than any... See more

It’s no wonder that a favorite book of mine is titled: Investing: The Last Liberal Art. Though worth a read in full (and a good number of routine rereads at that), the below quote captures the book’s overarching thesis:[E]ach discipline entwines with, and in the process strengthens, every other. From each discipline, the thoughtful person draws... See more

Jim Collins originally used the Flywheel as a metaphor in Good To Great:Picture a huge, heavy flywheel — a massive metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle, about 30 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick, and weighing about 5,000 pounds. Now imagine your task is to get the flywheel rotating on the axle as fast and long as possible.Pushing with great... See more

Despite this grandiose fervor, venture capital is not changing.Like a word’s denotation, it is unchangeable — an absolute, a fixed paradigm.Venture Capital, very simply, funds:The test of a true, novel hypothesis with…Enough capital to definitively prove or disprove said hypothesis so as to generate…Supporting data that makes it clear that the... See more