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Navigating Promotion and Prevention Questions
The current macroeconomic environment means that investors are more risk averse, leading to more prevention questions being asked. Learn how to flip theā€¦
The Early-Stage Conundrum: Good vs. Great
The goal of venture capital is to fund great businesses and not good businesses
Product Vision Doesn't Equal Commercial Sense
Building a great business requires both product vision and strong commercial sense
Raising Your First Round of Capital
Understanding deal psychology and the capital landscape is important to figuring out where your first round of capital will come from
The Fundraising Blueprint
A compilation of articles that I've written on raising your pre-seed or seed round
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Can you Scale a Venture Capital Fund?
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The Art of Crafting Your Startup's Story
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Democratising the Right to Laziness
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Compromised Cap Tables Create Consequences
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The Art of Earning Trust
Trust trumps all when it comes to fundraising
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A Strategic Guide to Sequencing Your Fundraise
Increase the probability of success when raising capital with this simple technique
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Changing The Way VCs Generate Deal Flow
Unpacking an interesting strategy that later stage firms are using to build future pipeline
A Pre-Seed Round Doesn't Replace Hard Work
If you want to increase your odds of raising a pre-seed round, you need to show proof that you can do the work beforehand
The Art of Crafting Your Startup's Story (Upgraded)
An upgraded version of my popular startup storytelling article
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VC's Are Not A Commodity
How to choose the right VC for your startup
Why Mega Funds Exist
Unpacking how institutional investors allocate their capital
Writing to Learn and Learning to Write
Superfluid is now 2! A quick reader survey, and my top 5 tips for aspiring writers
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Why Your 'Disruptive' Product Isn't Getting Traction
Everyone has a product that is supposed to disrupt a market. Very rarely does that actually happen
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