Fundraising
Fundraising by startups remains well below its 2020 and 2021 heydays. However, there are signs of improvement. Compared to the same...
Primarily, entrepreneurs seek funding sources to launch, expand, or modernize their business. However, investors often also possess advanced experience and can...
An analysis of the role sound crypto economies may play in open-source development In this piece, I propose a framework to...
You hear these terms all the time. Countless articles (here, here, here) enumerate the various metrics that can quantify the growth...
This blog has talked at length in the past about how to raise a round, especially a seed, and building an...
A previous article Secondaries: Founders and Investors defined a secondary as when you sell your existing shares to another investor. Secondaries...
Excited to announce our investment alongside Softbank (Upload Ventures), Aggir and Norte in the now oversubscribed $2M seed of Salú, which...
The short answer is most definitely yes. While every situation is unique, the three cases below provide a framework around the...
This is an article meant primarily for entrepreneurs and LPs (limited partners i.e., those investing in a VC fund), albeit we...
Pitch decks are a topic of permanent debate, no matter how much has been written about them. As such, this article...
Raising a round and considering whether to do convertible or SAFE? Remember that convertible is debt that turns into equity based...
You have built the boat (or the rocket, or the plane, pick your favorite vehicle) and now it’s time to grow....
An introduction to cap tables “Our potential investors asked as to present the cap table. What is he/she looking for?” I’ve...
We are coming up to two years since COVID truly hit the US. The first three months after Mar 2020 markets...
If you are asking the question then you probably already believe in the answer. Pitchbook is a company focused on analysis...
1) Preferred vs Common Historically there have been two types of stock: preferred and common. Preferred is for investors, common for...
If your VC wants to invest more in you then you have a good problem in your hands. Here are five...
What is the right cap and discount for your convertible? Should you even have them at all? The latter used to...
$530M round: Snyk snags another $530M as valuation rises to $8.5B $400M round: Cityblock Health raises another mega-round of funding, tipping...
Signaling risk typically happens when a large fund comes into an early round, creating an expectation in the market that they...
You had a great idea. You built a great team. You know that hardware is a significant part of the product...
Long sales cycle? Marketing got too expensive? Spent too much time fixing the product? There are so many reasons why things...
Previous articles have talked about party rounds and keeping momentum in your fundraising. This one will focus specifically on the close,...
The term pre seed has really become institutionalized in the last couple years, before that the idea / powerpoint stage wasn’t...
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