The funding gap at the early stage is real, pre-seed and seed are left wide open, as you can read in Flavio Lobato’s article: “The VC unicorn obsession is creating an early stage funding wasteland” both angel and seed round activity has been on target for their lowest year since…

The basic of a new startup is to do something disruptive that very few people can see as viable or even feasible. You are here to disrupt the status quo, so what seems an obvious opportunity for you, won’t be for the rest of us. That’s why fundraising at early stages…

Recently, we have seen too many startups putting their existence at risk or destroying their value simply because the founder sees him/herself as a CEO for the lifespan of the company. As a startup grows, managerial challenges become different. They evolve from vision+product to vision+product+team to vision+product+team+finance. Founders end up…

We always tend to say valuation is a vanity metric. While the right metric is in fact an equation: Amount of cash + Valuation + Investor smartness + Terms When fundraising entrepreneurs tend to forget two things: 1) Roughly 90% of startups fail 2) As an individual, there is little…

Startup’s profitability is a growing discussion these days. It’s a recurring topic that gets more discussed when financial people feel we are at the end of a bullish cycle, and that feeling is here. Profitable startups have inevitably a higher survival rate during downturns, check 2000–1 or 2008–9. Now, should…