Technofile Europe: New gig: over to the bright side

I've been silent on this blog for nearly 6 months, for which I apologise -- now it's high time I get back into my technology and business rantings.

The reason for the long silence is simple: I did a 'pivot' as the startup business gurus are fond of calling it. I left the VC world and went looking for a (big) change. This could have been anything and I roamed a bit widely for a while, but in the end the markets got me: I decided to jump to the other side and join an entrepreneurial team out to revolutionise television. [more on this later]

There ought to be a network or -- dare I say -- a support group for VCs turned entrepreneurs. The transition feels like switching from flying in a Boeing 777 to a single-prop cropduster. Suddenly everything is so close up, every detail critical, every task a bottleneck, every impediment a potential disaster. And you quickly learn that most of the world does not move at the pace or with the urgency you so badly want to maintain! Commercial banks? Property agents? Accountants? VCs for that matter!? Fuhgeddaboudit...

So this blog will from now on range a bit more widely than before: entrepreneurship, technology, markets at a minimum. And if I comment on the VC industry it will be from a rather different perspective, that of a user. Thanks for staying tuned.

Comments

Hey Max,

It will be refreshing to read about your experiences because you are a trail-blazer to take this path. Hope it will be a good example for other VCs.

From my humble experience move quickly to get as detailed and hands-on as possible on your technologies and products.

I guarantee you will find flying a cropduster to be exhilarating, frequently scary when you stall the engine, but immense fun, and nothing could be better than the feeling when you land ;)

Thanks for helping our team out, and just let us know whenever http://www.3scale.net/ can return the favour.

Posted by: MarkCheshire | June 21, 2011 at 22:02

Congratulations for having courage to make the career switch!
And good luck (the essential ingredient of success, after acquiring experience and positioning yourself in the right place at the right time)!
Best wishes,
Michael

Posted by: Michael Palmer | June 22, 2011 at 11:41