Don’t Overdose on VC: Lessons from 166 startup IPOs
Does raising a large amount of capital make a startup more likely to succeed? Is capital a weapon? Do startup founders need to “go big or go home?”
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Two Years of Startup Exits
An unrepresentative, statistically insignificant, but still interesting peek at the current M&A market
The 12 Questions All Founders Should Ask VCs
Entrepreneurs are often so fixated on “getting to yes” with a VC — and will go to great lengths to answer any question posed to do so — that they forget to ask the VC any questions.
Startup Success Outside Silicon Valley: Data from Over 200 Exits in 17 Cities
There’s never been a better time to build a company outside the Bay Area
Why do VCs Really Want to See Your Financial Model?
I recently tweeted about the importance of financial models in evaluating seed-stage pitches
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.