on startups

You should raise your seed round exclusively from seed investors and angels

The benefit of raising from larger funds doesn’t outweigh the risk

How to build a pitch deck with your browser

And why it’s better than slides

How Adding One Button Increased Our Signups by 3x

We’ve run quite a few experiments at Product Hunt in…

A short guide to revealing investor commitments mid-financing

How to know when it’s okay to disclose…

You Can Never Size a Market in Excel

Over the course of my career as a VC I’ve been involved with a bunch of fundraising. Raising money for our fund. Raising money for our portfolio companies. Advising friends on their fundraising. Lots. Of. Fundraising.

What happened after we got rejected from YCombinator

Around a year ago, my co-founder Chase White and I were in one of the toughest places we’ve been since launching Localeur.

We’d struggled through nearly 2 whole years of constant fundraising here in Austin, often…

How to create serendipity at your startup (as Slack, Pinterest, Groupon and others did)