Over the last few months, we’ve been rolling out our new INTRO product. As part of those…
Nearly 5 years ago we set up a sort of sandbox to begin iterating on different models and messages for a new kind of risk capital. One…
From the day our v3 applications opened on Jan 1st to closing them on March 1st, we made a lot of noise. From…
Not a week goes by that we haven’t questioned our decision to introduce a new set of terms into the funding landscape. They raise eyebrows…
4 years ago we kicked off an experiment to define and shape a path of funding distinctly different from the one size fits all venture model of…
About 5yrs ago the team at Basecamp (fka 37Signals) stopped editorial work on a section of their site they…
“It’s not venture scale”.
“It can’t get to venture scale”.
“It will never be venture scale”.
In my experience as an investor over the last 15yrs, this is far and away the most used reason for investors to pass on making an…
A harsh reality of modern entrepreneurship is that most founders have never worked for a profitable company.
For first time founders leaving engineering or product manager roles at large, profitable tech companies, many have never touched the monetization efforts…
I heard from a friend this week that their company was shutting down and, frankly, I was shocked. I…
