Use this strategy to really jump-start an early-stage fundraising — Out of everything I’ve produced, I’m most known for my content on Calendar Density. It’s a simple way of describing the most optimal setup of a high-performing fundraise. After Calendar Density, the next two most popular concepts I covered in my work have been the Angel Army and Stacked Notes…

Use this strategy to really jump start an early stage fundraise — Out of everything I’ve produced, I’m most known for my content on Calendar Density. It’s a simple way of describing the most optimal setup of a high-performing fundraise. After Calendar Density, the next two most popular concepts I covered in my work have been the Angel Army and Stacked Notes…

2 weeks ago | posted a Twitter thread that went viral. Here was the lead into that thread: You might think the thread is just a list of complaints. It’s not. To make sure people understood my point, I started with background/history and explained basic mechanics of a SAFE. …

As an investor, I rarely if ever stopped to analyze why I felt certain ways about some decks and different ways about others. As a founder and advisor though, deconstructing my reactions to decks while I was a VC has been instrumental in driving my own and others’ fundraising success…

So much of understanding how to attract funding boils down to understanding how investors evaluate an opportunity. It’s a lightning-quick process (relatively speaking) based on very few data points. Think about it. A couple of weeks to decide whether you want to put many thousands or millions of dollars into…

So much of investing is about evaluating team. Is this team capable of bringing a company to the promised land? In the world of technology startups, getting to the promised land requires trudging through a lot of technical swampland building and iterating on product in the pursuit of product-market fit. …

You never know the outsized effects that seemingly small decisions can make. It’s an important lesson to learn. In late 2020, I was only a few months into building my company Adamant when a friend of mine introduced me to the founder of a new program for entrepreneurs in Latin…

How much effort do you put into honing your craft? For me, the answer is “a lot.” One way I do this is by following the writing of a lot of smart people in the startup and venture capital communities. It’s especially helpful when they share unique insights around investing…

For an early-stage startup, angel investors provide an essential source of funding that can often make or break a company’s ability to survive. Angel investors can also benefit founders and fulfill essential roles in less obvious ways- that’s why one of our core teachings is to build and leverage an…