If you’re a founder who finds yourself in a meeting with a VC, try to remember two things — you’re the smartest person in the room, and investors are looking for a reason to say “yes.”
A VC shares 5 things no one told you about pitching VCs
The success of a fundraising process is entirely dependent on how well an entrepreneur can manage it. Here are five pointers that founders should consider while pitching to venture capitalists.
Early-stage benchmarks for young cybersecurity companies
Entrepreneurs require guideposts when building large companies, and customer and revenue expectations can be established by looking at what successful cybersecurity companies have accomplished.
My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey
No choice we make will be perfect, and all the frameworks in the world won’t eliminate risk entirely. But we don’t need perfection or freedom from risk. We just need to take the next step.
Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom
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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom
Thanks very much for reading Extra Crunch this week! Have a great weekend.
‘The tortoise and the hare’ story is playing out right now in VC
The unprecedented liquidity entering the venture market in the past year has spurred trends that require VCs to adapt to an environment where startup founders have far more leverage than they used to.
3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations
VCs need to stop engaging in self-delusion about why a valuation that is too high might be OK. Here are three common lies investors tell themselves to rationalize an undisciplined valuation decision.
The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space
This group of people has been overlooked and underserved by our industry, and it doesn’t have to be that way; older adults are too important to be left behind by technology.
How one founder bucked the data-driven trend and created a startup based on inspiration
When Oleg Stavitsky and his co-founders started Endel, they didn’t necessarily expect for it to become a venture-backed business with the likes of Amazon’s Alexa Fund as investors. Stavitsky and his founding team describe themselves as a “collective of imaginative creatives and artists,” and the group had previously developed a unique set of apps for […]