Chairman
‘Brightstation Ventures is a tremendous amount of fun with tremendous challenges and tremendous opportunities.’
- 1985-2006—Wiggin
- Media specialist law firm
- 1989 - Partner
- 1989 - 1993 - Ran Los Angeles office
- 1997 - 2003 - Managing Partner
- 2003 - 2006 - Senior Partner
‘I am an advisor to the Brightstation fund and spend 50% of my time mentoring the funds in the online businesses we have investments in and the other 50% working with the funds’ various other activities.’
‘We have diverse investments in the online media space.’
‘Brightstation Ventures is a tremendous amount of fun with tremendous challenges and tremendous opportunities.’
‘We love the economies of intelligence and scale which are a result of having a number of businesses under our wing - one can learn from the other every day of the week. It means you can have really smart people dedicating their time to more than one business. It’s an opportunity to play in a very entrepreneurial space but with very concrete business methodologies underlying it.’
‘The good thing about risk capital is that if it’s deployed by smart people in a considered way and by people who have the experience then the risk can be managed. The opportunities are there to make returns which can be spectacularly above market norms.’
‘We’re very responsive. We can say no as quick as we can say yes. We do react quickly, but reacting quickly is about recognising an opportunity, evaluating it quickly, and not missing out on that opportunity. Because we are private and focused, we can react very quickly. That is a real USP.’
‘We’re mercifully free of restrictions and when we need to exit we don’t have third-party investors to whom we need to return money. We’ve only got ourselves to consider. We are in this for the long term not for the short term.’
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‘We’re mercifully free of restrictions and when we need to exit we don’t have third-party investors to whom we need to return money.’
