VC POV

An unrepresentative, statistically insignificant, but still interesting peek at the current M&A market

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.

There’s never been a better time to build a company outside the Bay Area

I recently tweeted about the importance of financial models in evaluating seed-stage pitches

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.

One argument I hear in favor of big $$$ fundraising is that it will help in recruiting. It’s a logical enough belief but mistaken. It assumes there’s a linear relationship between the amount of funding raised and caliber of recruits.