Venture Capital

Nine Interview Questions for Hiring Top Senior Engineers

Engineering managers from Google, Oscar…

What will it take for your tech startup to raise a $500,000 seed round?

$500,000 is about the minimum…

Why Enterprise Funds May Return More Capital Than Consumer Funds

This is the first part in a series of writings on enterprise and consumer investments in venture capital (VC). Stay tuned for upcoming posts as we explore investment and exit trends related to this topic. For those who…

What Venture Capitalists Got Wrong About Bitcoin

Of the over $1 billion venture capitalists have invested in blockchain businesses, that funding has focused primarily on bitcoin, since for years that seemed like the only option. But with the arrival of Ethereum, and a surge of alternate coins…

Cutting Through the Machine Learning Hype

Breaking down terminology, how ML works, and where startups…

A Seed Fund’s Investment Checklist

With seed investments, failure is excusable. But having a poor process for making investment decisions is not. To help ensure that we are thoughtful about the commitments we make at Upside Partnership, I keep the following Investment Decision Checklist on my desk.

One VC’s Confession on Thanksgiving

To our founders,

How to Win a Startup Pitch Competition

Win or lose, startup pitch competitions represent a great opportunity for your business to…

Past, Present and Future of Enterprise IPOs

Since 2009, there have been dozens of enterprise software and infrastructure…

Investing in Robots: The Emergence of Global Hardware Unicorns

Ask Techstars: Going from Seed to Series A

We recently held an AMA on the topic of fundraising, what investors look for in a…

Numerai: Another Nail in the Efficient Market Hypothesis Coffin

Shiller First to Say “Emperor Has No…

The 5 Ms of the investment process — understanding what investors are looking for

We all know about the 3 P’s of marketing: price, product and positioning. But what about the 5 M’s of the investment process and Venture Capital?

Has India’s startup story missed the capital efficiency bus?

— Anand Lunia

“A startup is a temporary organization used to search for a repeatable and scalable business model”. A great definition from Steve Blank, one of Silicon Valley’s well known educators…

Why Surfing?

We just launched a new website (finally) and after some debate we went with some surfing images. We have talked for a long time about…

Aydın Öztunalı, Managing Partner Mydas. Series of interviews with investors in Turkiye n°5.

Expert Interview Series: Rajeev Madhavan of Clear Ventures

Making Sense of Snap’s IPO

News of Snap’s (fka Snapchat) purported confidential IPO filing hit the press this past week. Although rumors of…

The Best This Week In Startups & Venture Capital

Hi Fellow Founders,

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What’s Right for My Accelerator?

A perspective on capital, equity and company stages…

There was a time I was interested in investing in a company that was pre-seed. They had a rough prototype, some interested customers and a small amount of…

Why aren’t the world’s governments ready for the impact of AI on jobs?

Have You Tried Rebooting? Reimagining Tech Support With a Little Help From AI

Asia Headlines — Week of 11/14

Deals

Beijing — Momenta, an autonomous driving company, raised a $5 million Series A from Zhenfund, Sinovation, and Blue Lake Capital (lead). The company’s technology analyzes one’s surroundings in real-time, high-precision maps, and possible…

Yes, we need more medicine in the hand of patients. Its the key to even more founder spirit. Enable the individual through congenial ideas for digital health to provoke the traditionel health care system from their hideaway.

Online doctor and clinic search provider HealthKumbh gets seed funding

MD Technovation Pvt Ltd, which runs an online platform HealthKumbh that helps doctors, clinics and hospitals network with peers and people, has raised Rs 50 lakh ($73,000) in seed funding from Ahmedabad-based…