Venture Capital

How do I get funded?

A relatively innocuous question with grand consequences for early stage CEOs. It’s our firm belief that a startup CEO’s…

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Alternative funding in an uncertain market

One thing that VC Twitter (and the broader news cycle) hasn’t been dancing around is the need for founders to conserve cash in an uncertain market. Unfortunately, many of the earlier stage businesses I’ve chatted with have grown accustomed to the easy…

Venture capital looks back to look forward

What is the hottest spring activity of anyone in the startup investor community this…

Scaling with Enterprise Partners — Thoughts for Startups

Startup Key Performance Indicators — Cash Runway

Up and to the right

Your start-up’s revenue isn’t the only thing going up and to the right these days…

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced the first interest rate increase since 2018, committing to a 25 basis point hike. Along with the legions of Fed armchair experts that have…

Founder Talk

What makes a “good” founder? Is it the ability to see the future? Or perhaps coding skills that rival the most prolific darknet hacker? The start-up world is full of illustrative examples, both good and bad. From blockbuster movies to Twitter threads, we’ve all seen origin stories of college dropouts…