By Jamie Davidson

tl;dr the likelihood of a follow on financing peaks at around 9 months.

When I worked at Google and later at Hotel Tonight, data that represented actual user activity (search, click, purchase…

By Jamie Davidson

tl;dr Raise enough to hit the next milestones to raise the next round plus a healthy buffer.

After starting PrimaTable in 2011, raising a seed round and selling to Hotel Tonight and now…

By Tom Tunguz

By Tom Tunguz

Aside from a startup’s internal considerations about the right time to raise money, founders should weigh the seasonality of the fund raising market when planning their raise. There’s a rule…

By Tom Tunguz

In “Why Winning Streaks End”, Rosabeth Kantar, a professor at HBS, explains the key to maintaining momentum in any company is maintaining the discipline of every day processes. Similarly, Atul…

By Tom Tunguz

By Tom Tunguz

As recently as six months ago, it was easy to disregard the Internet of Things (IoT) as just a theoretical market that Cisco measured in the trillions, but whose potential never seemed to…

By Tom Tunguz