Tag: VC
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Ever feel lost on how to improve your product? Here are three ways to get the customer feedback you need… Wrap-Up Sending gift cards and swag to a few dozen customers will probably only cost you a couple thousand dollars. The feedback they give you could be worth millions. Your…
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Here’s how a typical angel investor loses $250,000: This is what happens for most angels. They only invest in one company. The founders are not technical, and the product never launches. Their money goes up in smoke. Here’s how we can do better… Focus on Launched Products I never invest…
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Foreign founders raising money in America make the same mistakes over and over. Here are 5 things you need to get right to raise in the US… Humility Doesn’t Play in America “We’ll see how it goes.” I was at a demo day in NYC a while back, listening to…
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I tried to sell software to an AI simulator. I wound up crushing my quota and getting promoted! My biggest lesson: you can’t sell to every buyer the same way. Every day, I’m evaluating founders’ sales skills. The founder is the first salesman for the startup. If they’re good at…
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I’m seeing tons of seed rounds at $40 million and up. Here’s why those will turn out to be bad investments…. Venture Funds Need Massive Growth Startups raising seed rounds at $40M need to hit $1B ARR within 10 years. That is a near-impossible task. But any less, and it’s…
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“They’re profitable. Why are they raising money?” Here’s why you should consider raising venture capital even if you’re profitable… Strike While the Iron Is Hot Right now markets are about as hot as they get. It’s the perfect time to raise. You may not need money now. Maybe you’ll need…
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Are my angel investments beating the market? Today, I crunched the numbers to find out. TL;DR: I’m at a 25% IRR. This beats stocks by a large margin. Let’s back up a little. What does this number mean, and how did I calculate it? What Is IRR? To know if…
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The hottest startup is a great place to lose your money… Investors threw cash at these companies. Theranos and FTX turned out to be frauds. WeWork and Clubhouse struggled to make a viable business. Either way, the investors got torched. When Investors Get Sloppy When a startup is hot, investors…
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Here are 3 things I hate seeing in a pitch… What to Focus On Instead Instead of LOI’s, “lines of sight,” and pipeline, talk about where your business is today. “We have 3 customers paying $100 a month.” That’s not a lot of money. But it’s concrete and it’s a…
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Founders: have you ever watched yourself pitch? Peyton Manning spent 20 hours a week watching game film. Here’s what you can learn from him… Careful study of game film gave Manning a huge advantage. But when most founders pitch investors, they just do meeting after meeting with little idea how…
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