Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&AQ: Which VC firms are still reviewing fundable deals during the Covid-19 quarantine? Almost every VC firm is reviewing deals. The question is what are they doing about them. We…
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With venture capital investments that fail, is the problem most often with the entrepreneur or was it a bad investment by the VC? There often is no problem. The earlier stage…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&AWhat are some signs that an “angel investor” is really a “devil investor”? Some top signs trouble may come later from an “angel” investor: The terms are way, way, way…
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Blog Posts, Featured Q&A, Fundraising, Q&ACan an entrepreneur back out of a signed term sheet without damaging his/her reputation? I’m going to say Yes, probably. There is a lot of drama around broken term sheets. Mostly…
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Blog Posts, FundraisingWhat has a higher chance of making you money, being a venture capitalist or a startup founder? VCs have a much higher chance of making good money. Their own investors (“LPs”…
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Blog Posts, FundraisingOver 1,500 of you registered for an incredible deep-dive we did yesterday with Byron Deeter, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Byron has invested in over a dozen Cloud unicorns and even…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Growth, SalesWhatever this downturn looks like, it won’t be the same as ’08-’09. Which was brutal. But we did learn some things from it that were somewhat counter to our expectations. What…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&AQ: Is having multiple investors back a startup in the first round a good thing? As a rough rule, every investor that owns more than 10% will act, at least…
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Customer Success, Early, Fundraising, Podcasts Ep. 315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, GrowthI’ve always been a fan of venture debt and similar products, used properly. Back in the day at EchoSign / Adobe Sign, we crossed $10m in ARR having raised less…
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Q: How much money do you need to be an angel investor? You can dabble, but to do it right, you’d want to have at least $5m+ total to invest…
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Fundraising, Marketing, Marketing, Metrics, Podcasts Ep 305: Karen Page is a General Partner @ B Capital Group with a portfolio including the likes of Bird, Branch, Icertis, Evidation Health and Ninja…
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Customer Success, Customer Success, Fundraising, Podcasts Ep. 301: Dimitri Sirota is the Founder & CEO @ BigID, the startup that provides advanced data discovery and intelligence for the data centre and cloud….
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Fundraising, Q&AQ: Can the initial angel investment round be changed 2 years later to benefit the board members and not the remaining investors? There have been several safe note investments but…
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Fundraising, Q&AQ: How hard is it to raise venture capital? If you have solid traction and a great team, are your chances significantly higher than 0.05% and will you find at…
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