Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&AWhat can entrepreneurs do to stand out to prospective investors during a pitch? The best founders really know their sh*t. The best founders just know everything cold about their business:…
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Company Culture, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, Metrics, Podcasts Ep. 274: Robert Vis is the Founder & CEO @ MessageBird, the company that allows you to talk to your customers via Voice, SMS and…
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Fundraising, Q&AIt is preferable for a simple, telling and important reason: at least at the seed stage, the economics of founders and investors are very aligned. Put differently, at the end…
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Fundraising, Hiring, Podcasts Ep 272: Dave King is the Head of Marketing at Asana, the work management platform that teams use to stay focused on the goals that…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Growth, SalesSo, despite SaaS multiples and the public markets being at near-record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed, and…
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Blog Posts, FundraisingAt the recent A+ Traction conference in Vancouver, Justin Kan and I had a lot of fun doing a presentation I hadn’t done or seen before — “S**t VCs Say”….
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Company Culture, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Podcasts Ep. 260: Whitney Bouck is the COO @ HelloSign (now a part of Dropbox). For those that do not know, HelloSign is the company…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, MetricsThere was a very curious thing in Zoom’s financials leading up to its IPO that I am surprised no one commented on. But as a founder, it jumped out at…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&ACold emails to investors have their detractors. There are so, so many start-ups these days. Everyone with a checkbook is looking for signals which of the 1000s to invest in. …
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Blog Posts, Customer Success, Customer Success, Fundraising, Growth, Hiring, ProductRecently on LinkedIn and Twitter I put together a list of things that later, once you are successful, even very successful, you’ll regret. It got a lot of engagement from…
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Fundraising, Q&AHow do VCs decide which startups to invest in? VCs take different types of risks. More on those types, and flavors here: The Different Flavors of Risk Early Stage VCs…
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Early, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Hiring, International Expansion, Leadership, Podcasts, Sales Ep. 250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Hiring, Leadership, Marketing, SaaStr Events, VideosKeith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Keith began his career in the industry…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, GrowthI’ve watched many bridge rounds over time from a far, and took $500k in bridge capital at EchoSign myself when our seed round didn’t end up being quite enough to…
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