HAPPY NEW YEAR. (It's only the second week of Jan, so it’s still ok to say it.)   We don’t like to release our Wrapped before the year ends because who knows what the last few days may bring…? And it turns out that the end of our December was just that busy –...

The tone of our issue #70 is different from the previous sixty-nine.   I’m sharing some thoughts on how we should communicate in these times and how each of us can ensure that the concept of free speech in the workplace survives the ongoing war on...

How are you coping?   In a parallel world, I’d like to take a more holistic look at cap tables – their shape and health, because some cap tables out there could benefit from some tidying up     Fixing (un)investable cap tables   Your cap table (CT)...

We’re physically heading into winter (at last!), the VC world has been in a funding winter for some time now and instead of the predicted M&A wave one could assume it’s an M&A winter. Except that… in MENA, it's more like autumn.    Signs of life in MENA's...

Pardon my French but this one’s a good entrée:   "As an industry we’ve become experts at content marketing the shit out of our wins, the shiniest versions of what venture and startups can be." (Hunter Walk)   Content marketing remains a powerful weapon, but...

Some time ago Hasan Al Shami tagged Arzan VC in his post about the levels of SaaS founders’ equity at IPO – what’s the average ownership% and whether the founders share it equally – and Hasan was wondering if we got some data on MENA founders...   Thank you for...