Updates How does DQventures work? DQventures helps experienced professionals to launch a startup while remaining employed full-time. Our team cofounds your business alongside you, helping you avoid many of the pitfalls that await first-time entrepreneurs.
Updates Update: July 2023 Here's an update for DQ investors, supporters, founders and anyone interested in investing and entrepreneurship. Please share and give feedback. If it's not for you, please unsubscribe.
Updates Is this the best startup job application ever? Here's the story of how and why we came to be working with the amazing Leanne Beesley. It's far from a standard recruitment process and Leanne's approach taught us a lot about how to land a job you really want.
Updates DealerDoc funding secured! Happy to announce the first successful fundraise for DealerDoc - our eighth portfolio company, and the first to raise an institutional round in the United Kingdom.
Updates Update: March 2023 The financial world is giving very mixed signals - banks failing, inflation still ripping, yet oil prices and down, along with startup valuations. But here at DQ we're making progress, with 10 companies now and counting. Here's our latest update.
Updates Advice for my kids after 20 years of startup life. At least two of my business partners, past and present, are self-made multimillionaires. I've also invested in, worked with, learned from, and collaborated with dozens of hugely wealthy, successful people. Here are 42 pieces of advice I've collected along the way.
Updates How it feels to lose $2m of other people's money. This was the most painful lesson our cofounder, James, would ever learn. No founder thinks they're going to fail, so when it happens, it's way worse than you imagine.
Updates How can you help? At DQventures we're always on the lookout for professionals who yearn to work for themselves, but that's not all. We also collaborate with early-stage investors worldwide, and we're looking for entrepreneur investors who can help us scale.
Updates Update: July 2022 While the public markets continue to scare investors all over the world, things are starting to heat up for us here at DQ. Here's our latest update.
Updates Update: April 2022 An update on DQ, our portfolio companies, the markets, and how our private investments are performing.
Updates Best startup quotes From Bill Gates to Zig Ziglar, here we've assembled the best startup quotes from the world's best known and most loved entrepreneurs.
Updates Update: Dec 2021 A roundup of what's new in our personal investment portfolios, some startup learnings, and what progress has been made by the DQventures' portfolio companies.
Updates Update: August 2021 Welcome to the first of our quarterly updates about startup life and investing, brought to you from Singapore, Australia, India, and Sweden.
Updates DQventures: the who and why DQ was founded by James Green, Arjun Singh and Oliver Palmer. Between us we have invested in over 75 start-ups, raised more than $200m, successfully exited companies, and run accelerator programs across the world.