Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: How often do “VC Horror Stories” happen? Here’s the thing. It doesn’t really happen as often anymore. At least — not the classic stories we’ve heard in the past. …
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: What is the highest % equity that a departed / non-working co-founder can own that VCs are comfortable with? Single digits. VCs will be worried about a founder that…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising
A few thoughts if you haven’t raised venture capital before: 1. Remember you have to prove yourself, still. (Fair or not). Yes, you got the $$$, and they really can’t…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&A
I try to avoid raw pitches at all at this point. Send me the deck ahead of time, with as much detail as possible. I promise to read it carefully,…
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Blog Posts, Career Growth & Advice, Fundraising, Leadership
Really, there’s nothing I’ve done in my life that is harder than being a founder CEO. Nothing. It’s 100x harder than being a VP. Even if the actual work is…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership
“I don’t want to meet [That VC]. I don’t need money now and it’s distracting.” — most founders, post Seed round …… There’s a superpower some founders have. When they…
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Blog Posts, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Growth, Podcasts, Videos
In today’s SaaStr podcast, Tomasz Tunguz, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures shares the 5 metrics and benchmarks you should track to maximize your company’s valuation.
Blog Posts, Fundraising
Battery Ventures recently put out its Software 2021 report with a ton of interesting learnings across the leaders in SaaS and Cloud. A few top takeaways: #1. Battery Ventures’ data…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Growth, Metrics
Your VCs aren’t the boss. They should work for you. You don’t need to do what they say, or have pre-pre-board meetings if you don’t want to. But … many,…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership
We’re all attracted to brands. We want Google and Salesforce and Amazon as our customers. We want to be in the Cloud 100 and on TechCrunch every week. We want…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising
When you go to raise venture capital, if you are in the fortunate group of start-ups with access to venture capital, you’ll either have options (more than one VC wants…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: Why are venture capitalists often reluctant to pay success fees for intros to deals? First off, it’s true — VCs are very reluctant to pay any fees to deal…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: As an early stage investor turned first-time VC, what should I do, dance, boast, celebrate, blog about it, call future potential LPs? – when a portfolio company has a…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Leadership
Let’s take a look at a few recent $1B+ “exits”, i.e. sales in SaaS: Pipedrive acquired by Vista for $1.5B Thoma Bravo acquires Sophos for $3.8B Insight Partners buys Veam…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising
You’re life as a founder will be from 5%-50% easier if your VCs all trust each other It’s at least worth trying to end up with a syndicate like that…
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