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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

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