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Regulatory Capture: Navigating the Third Rail of Innovation

Trailing through the darkened corridors of political power are the insidious tendrils of corporate and elite influence. A particularly…

Nov 1

Regulatory Capture: Navigating the Third Rail of Innovation

Nov 1

Mapping the Territory: Exploring Uncharted Markets

“The Earth’s surface is 70% water. That water is uncarbonated. Therefore, the Earth is … flat.” When Mapping the Territory, beware of maps…

Oct 8

Mapping the Territory: Exploring Uncharted Markets

Oct 8

Exit Strategy: Reverse Engineering Successful Outcomes from the Outset

The above want ad applies as well to startups as the Antarctic: “hazardous journey, small wages … long months of complete darkness…

Sep 27

Exit Strategy: Reverse Engineering Successful Outcomes from the Outset

Sep 27

The Five Forces: Five Startup Strategies for Winner Take Most Markets

“Full many a flower was meant to blush unseen and waste its fragrance on the desert air. Full many a man was meant to scale the heights but…

Sep 16

The Five Forces: Five Startup Strategies for Winner Take Most Markets

Sep 16

Three Cardinal Sins of Investing: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Identify Founder Fit

What do Amazon, Alibaba, AirBnB, Bentley Systems, Cisco, DataDog, PagerDuty, Peloton, Pinterest, Robinhood, SquareSpace, Uber, Udemy and…

Sep 10

Three Cardinal Sins of Investing: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Identify Founder Fit

Sep 10

Dominant Design: The Superhighway to Industry Growth

In February, I predicted a tepid response to the release of Apple Vision Pro. This was a contrarian view as Barron’s projected a $174…

Aug 30

Dominant Design: The Superhighway to Industry Growth

Aug 30

Paradigm Shifts: Ten Winning Strategies for Disruptive Innovators

“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things…

Aug 24

Paradigm Shifts: Ten Winning Strategies for Disruptive Innovators

Aug 24

Social Capital: Six Startup Strategies to Upend Incumbents

In 2015, thousands of taxi drivers in Paris rioted blocking thoroughfares, damaging cars, and threatening Uber drivers while seeking a ban…

Aug 19

Social Capital: Six Startup Strategies to Upend Incumbents

Aug 19

The Checklist Manifesto: Three Best Practices to Improve Venture Capital Performance

Summit day on Mount McKinley! Tent bound at 18,000 feet for two days in blizzard conditions, we were eager for our summit bid on the…

Jun 26

The Checklist Manifesto: Three Best Practices to Improve Venture Capital Performance

Jun 26

Superforecasting: Ten Investment Practices to Improve Performance

Investing requires good judgment, which is blurred by bounded rationality in an uncertain world. Early-stage venture investing is further…

Jun 5

Superforecasting: Ten Investment Practices to Improve Performance

Jun 5

Paul Asel

Paul Asel

Managing Partner @ngpcapital, a global VC with $1.6B AUM. Portfolio: Lime, Zum, SVT, Workfusion ... Writes about innovation, VC, AI, entrepreneurship.

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