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Sheel on Mercury: The Power of Strategic Pivots

Sheel on Mercury: The Power of Strategic Pivots

⬅️Originally published by our friends at Mercury here. I’m Sheel Mohnot, Co-Founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures and investor in seed-stage fintechs. I joined Mercury at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco to talk about strategic pivots, how to recognize the right time to pivot your company, and

Forget Perfectionism, Embrace the Chaos

Forget Perfectionism, Embrace the Chaos

⬅️Article originally published here by our friends at This Week in Fintech. In my previous two pieces in this series, I talked a bit about how startups are an exercise in controlled chaos, and how building an enduring franchise means getting very comfortable with ambiguity. That’s easy to say,

The Lost Art of “F*ck Around and Find Out”

The Lost Art of “F*ck Around and Find Out”

⬅️Article originally published here by our friends at This Week in Fintech In its first year in 2009, NerdWallet made $75. The second year, that rose to about $60,000. In the first nine months of 2023, the company generated $465.7 million in revenue. That exponential rise in fortunes

The Startup Community Must Shake Off Its Funding ‘Shell-Shock’

The Startup Community Must Shake Off Its Funding ‘Shell-Shock’

People tend to think of startups as creating something from nothing, but it’s more like finding order in chaos...

Investing in Global Trade

Investing in Global Trade

⬅️Originally published by Nihar on Twitter here. Most know BTV as a fintech fund. So how does global trade fit in? For us, fintech is any technology that touches (catalyzes, protects, underwrites...) exchange of value. Exchange of value = commerce, which is facilitated by global trade! At @btv_vc, we'

Podcast: Sheel on Tank Talks

Podcast: Sheel on Tank Talks

⬅️Originally published by Ripple Ventures on Spotify here. Sheel Mohnot, Founding Partner of BTV, is a natural storyteller and a good hang, you can just figure that out with his Twitter feed and his track record of creating one of the most popular startup podcasts. He also happens to be

Building the next decade of consumer finance

Building the next decade of consumer finance

I had the great pleasure of moderating a panel at Fintech Meetup re: building the next decade of consumer finance by leveraging real-time data and cash flow forecasting. I wanted to share some of the key insights shared during the session by our amazing panelists...