A fellow entrepreneur* was asked by a VC “Why do most startups fail?” My friend, already a very experienced executive,…
In my post last week, Why do Startups Die?, I started a theme that I think will prove to be…
A super smart founding team I know is doing a Series A – and they are personally putting in about…
Every business needs capital, to operate, to grow or to take advantage of new opportunities and ideas. As a fellow…
A few years ago a VC I knew said that VCs were like 6 year old soccer players, they were…
Listening in on some VCs who were answering questions from interested entrepreneurs, one question was “what’s the worst pitch you’ve…
I was listening to a couple of VC’s talk the other day and one of them talked about their favorite…
If you’re an entrepreneur, hopefully you’ve thought through your “end game”. Certainly there are some businesses that are closely held…
One of the important things about raising capital from investors is how important it is to “network in.” With investors,…
Accelerators have become the “new new” thing in startup-land. The idea is that an accelerator will, well, accelerate a startup’s…