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Spero Ventures Investment in Leaf: a Unified API to Address all Agriculture Data

Agriculture is one of the world’s largest industries and is fundamental to all our lives. It is one of the oldest industries and has benefitted from literally millennia of technological Read More

Busted Term Sheets

A busted term sheet is an emotional gut-punch. You’ve spent the last 3 months of your life getting organized around fundraising. You built a comprehensive data room. You did dozens Read More

Spero Ventures is Hiring for an Analyst/Associate

I feel really lucky to work in VC. Working in service to entrepreneurs has been my only real job, a literal life’s work so far, and one that continues to Read More

API-First: LEGOs for Business

I’m fascinated by API-First companies and the way in which they take complex, messy problems and cleanly abstract them for their customers. This type of business has been popular in Read More

Guide and The Importance of Candidate Experience

Feedback from the entire portfolio of Spero Ventures is unanimous on one front: hiring great talent is more competitive today than it has ever been. This is a refrain I’ve Read More

Book Review: This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends

I recently finished reading This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends by Nicole Perlroth. I don t typically read non-fiction. I find that great fiction is often more real Read More

Indirect Value Capture

Creating value in one place, capturing it in another The most basic idea of business is: Make something worth buying. Sell it. Repeat. So, I walk into Jason’s Hat Read More