Startup

What Do VCs Look For In Their Own Investors aka LPs?

If an entrepreneur is looking just for money they should probably raise from sources other than VC. What good VCs do...
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The Rise of Neobanks in India 

an overview of the market with the different neo-banking fintech players in India Fintech startups in India raised a whopping $3.7...
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Do I Need A Technical Cofounder? A Guide For Startups

If you are asking the question then what you are fundamentally asking is about the kind of company you are building....
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How To Truly Measure A Venture Capitalist’s Performance?

Wall Street Journal: Andreessen Horowitz’s Returns Trail Venture-Capital Elite TechCrunch: AngelList wants to improve comparing VC fund performance with new metrics...
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Why Found A Startup During A Crisis? 4 Key Reasons

At Tau Ventures we have the privilege of interacting with dozens of entrepreneurs on a daily basis. Given our focus on...
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So A VC Passed On You? 4 Ways To Turn The As*Hole Into An Ally

At Tau Ventures we get 4-5 pitches a day, almost a 1000 a year, and end up investing in 3-4.  A...
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5 Important VC Insider Ideas You Need to Know

The market has changed but it’s still a great time for startups. Unlike the stock market, there is no daily ticker...
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Want A Good Acquisition? 5 Ways Startups Can Get A Win-Win

A crisis puts pressure on both slowing down and accelerating startup acquisitions. Slows down because many acquirers, especially corporates, become more...
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How Startups Can Help Fix Our Broken Healthcare Infrastructure —...

A pandemic exposes the flaws in our society, healthcare very much included. While meaningful improvements require all 5 Ps — Payors,...
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The Rise of European Fintech Startups

Startups are now the future, and it’s in the fintech industry where this growth is most evident. While places like Silicon...
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Startups And The Bull Case For GovTech

Measuring and monitoring water, gas, electricity through off the shelf sensors and analyzing the data to detect flaws and improve efficiency. ...
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Crisis? 5 Principles For Startups To Still Raise Seed

This is Part II of a series, Part I was Crisis? 3 Ways VCs Adapt. There is a global crisis going...
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