I was asked recently by one of the companies I’m working with that is post-prototype, but pre-revenue: How can I make this deal sweet enough for early stage investors without jeapordising future investment or diluting founders further? That is the dilemma. As a founder, you need to get cash into the company to grow, often…
Continue reading →Hello, my name is Dave Moskovitz. I was member number two of the Internet Society of New Zealand (as it was called then) in 1995. I have been on the InternetNZ Council since 2010, and I am asking you to re-elect me for one final term so that I can focus my efforts to bring…
Continue reading →Publons, a company that came out of Wellington’s Lightning Lab accelerator in 2013, and of which I was the first investor and (until 31 May) Chairman of the Board, has been acquired by Clarivate Analytics. Publons provides a platform that gives academics credit for the peer review work they do, and whose mission is to…
Continue reading →I recently took on the role of Entrepreneur in Residence at the Kiwibank Fintech Accelerator, powered by Lightning Lab. Consider me the “Mentor-in-Chief” – as well as advising the ventures and helping them make great connections and destroy roadblocks, my main job is curating the relationships between the ventures and their mentors, and later in…
Continue reading →Very early this year, one of my closest friends, Julian Carver, died. This post told the story of his death from my perspective, along with my learnings from the experience. Sadly, one of Julian’s surviving family members has asked me to remove this post, as “it’s too soon”. In respect to them, I have removed…
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Continue reading →From time to time, I get asked to perform technical due diligence on investment opportunities. I have a checklist, and I thought I’d share it with others in the hope that it might be useful. If you have anything you think I’ve missed or got wrong, please let me know in the comments, and I’ll…
Continue reading →Dave provides the following services: Governance: Dave is a Chartered Director and serves on a number of boards of companies of various sizes, including Xerra and Metservice. He has strong experience in strategy development, technology, capital raising, international expansion, compliance, and negotiation. He likes being the board member who can translate what the geeks are saying…
Continue reading →The great folks at the Access Granted podcast published a wide-ranging interview with me today on “the mosaic of my life”, which you can listed to below: I cover a quite a lot of ground, including: Why shit just keeps getting better Startup Weekends and how you can create a business in 54 hours The…
Continue reading →Every once in awhile, you come across something so inspirational it sends shivers up your spine. While watching The Martian the other night with Mr 12, they included a snippet from John F Kennedy’s Rice Speech, which JFK delivered when I was two years old. I’d seen the quote before, but I’d never seen the…
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