Brad Feld is a co-founder of Foundry Group and Techstars, and has been a key figure in the startup world for decades. He launched his first company in 1987 and later became an early investor in c...
Most investors will check out your website before taking a meeting, or even before they accept your connection request on LinkedIn. It’s often their first impression of you, so you should make sure yo...
Mark Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com and sold it to Yahoo! for $5.7 billion in 1999. He is an investor in numerous companies, and is known for his appearance on *Shark Tank” and ownership of the Dall...
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Alexis Ohanian started Reddit in 2005 with his college friend Steve Huffman. They built it as a simple website where people could share links and vote on what was interesting. After getting $12,00...
The best way to connect with investors is to get a warm introduction. The problem is that almost all founders exhaust their personal network before they can complete their funding round. Even found...
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Many founders aren't aware of some of the pitfalls that await them when pitching VCs, especially the bigger ones, especially now.
Consider the following:
- VCs want a bigger exit than the founding t...
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, was the CEO of Y Combinator, and has personally invested in some of Silicon Valley's greatest companies, such as Stripe, Airbnb, Reddit, Instacart, D...
Finding your first investor is usually the biggest challenge and bottleneck on your raise (friends and family don't count!).
We gathered advice on how to nail it from some of the world's most suc...
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