Spotting & Stopping the Slippery Slope of Ethical Lapses at Startups
I’ve had the good fortune to be an investor for almost 15 years and have backed 100s of startups. Only one company in all that time deliberately defrauded its VCs.
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How to Conquer Silicon Valley from Sydney, Stockholm, or South Africa
One of the secrets of B2B entrepreneurship is that a good enough product with exceptional distribution will win more often than an exceptional product with mediocre distribution.
Want to raise a series A? Be smarter at seed
The “Series A crunch” sometimes still feels real. It dooms many startups that could otherwise have easily survived if they had been more strategic about their seed-stage fundraising.
The IPO Alternative No One is Talking About
In a world where IPOs are an unlikely outcome and traditional M&A exits are difficult to manufacture, there is a new alternative for liquidity starved founders and investors — The PE exit. It’s an invisible ecosystem to most, but when you see a headline about a PE firm making an “investment” in a mature SaaS startup, and there is no mention of valuation, or even what series it represents, you’re most likely witnessing an acquisition, of sorts.
How to Build a Product Loved by Millions and Get Acquired by Google: The Firebase Story
Hundreds of millions of people use Firebase-powered apps every day, though they may not realize it. The company started as backend-as-a-service for app developers that made real-time functionality simple for Shazam, NPR, SeatGeek, and hundreds of thousands of other services.