Tag: Startups
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I had wandered into a foreign land. The people spoke a strange tongue…CAC, LTV, SMB. How could I join their tribe and learn their ways? I consulted the oracle: Google. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! The world of startups has a language all its own. When I started angel…
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For generations, preventing pregnancy has fallen mostly on women. Men have few ways to help, aside from often ineffective condoms. With abortion now illegal in many states, the need for contraception is the greatest in 50 years. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! So I was excited to learn today…
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Note: This is not financial advice. Hedge fund colossus Tiger Global Management is fighting for its life. Its public stock funds have lost between 50 and 64% this year, vaporizing billions. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From a report that broke last night in the Financial Times: Chase Coleman’s…
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Exciting news out this week as legendary venture firm Sequoia Capital comes to NYC. Its new offices near Union Square are the firm’s first American branch outside the Bay Area. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From The Information: Sequoia Capital, the Menlo Park, Calif.–based venture capital firm known for…
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You have an amazing idea. But can you make it a reality? That’s the question facing a lot of non-technical startup founders. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I often meet with entrepreneurs with amazing ideas. They want to raise capital to build their product. But this isn’t how venture…
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Every morning for the last couple of months, I see the same thing: fewer deals in my inbox. So it’s no surprise that new data from Pitchbook show a drop in seed funding for the second quarter: Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! From an analysis of the data that…
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Some day, I want to look up at a big billboard in Times Square and say, “I knew that company when it was three people. And I saw what it could be.” But how do I get there? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I’ve been investing in early stage…
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Another quick delivery startup is struggling to keep its doors open. Beijing-based Missfresh is fighting huge losses and accounting irregularities. From a report that broke this weekend in the Financial Times: Tiger Global-backed grocery delivery start-up Missfresh is fighting to survive as it shuts operations across China, wallows in an…
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You did it! You closed a big funding round! Time to pop the champagne! But you still have one little problem: what are these pesky investor updates? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! If there’s one thing that really confuses founders I meet, it’s investor updates. Many big investors require…
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A nice young man contacted me recently with an investment opportunity: a nude resort in Mexico. I declined. But not for the reason you might think. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! Are You a Venture Scale Business? My decision wasn’t a moral one. I passed because this is not…
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Tremendous 