31 posts tagged with "raising-capital"
- Some thoughts on startup crowdfunding
- The product lens
- The time to eat the hors d’oeuvres is when they’re being passed
- Shoehorning startups into the VC model
- Some thoughts on when to raise money, and the current financing environment
- Once you take money, the clock starts ticking
- Later-stage rounds and “setting the bar too high”
- Always have 18 months of cash in the bank
- The downside of accelerated investment decisions
- Notes on raising seed financing
- Best practices for raising a VC round
- Financing risk
- The segmentation of the venture industry
- Converts versus equity deals
- Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect
- Size markets using narratives, not numbers
- The importance of investor signaling in venture pricing
- Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC
- What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?
- Does a VC’s brand matter?
- Pitch yourself, not your idea
- How to select your angel investors
- The most important question to ask before taking seed money
- Which VC firm should I pitch?
- Information is the (other) currency of venture capital
- VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean
- Pitching the VC partnership
- Options on early stage companies
- Ideal first round funding terms
- The problem with tranched VC investments
- Why seed investors don’t like convertible notes