Fundraising

What you need to know to attract investors to a company

Primarily, entrepreneurs seek funding sources to launch, expand, or modernize their business. However, investors often also possess advanced experience and can...
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Open Startups and Collective Business Models in Open Source

An analysis of the role sound crypto economies may play in open-source development In this piece, I propose a framework to...
Julian Molina
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Benchmarking Your (HealthTech) Startup? A Framework Around Metrics

You hear these terms all the time. Countless articles (here, here, here) enumerate the various metrics that can quantify the growth...
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Lead VC – 5 Factors Entrepreneurs Should Consider And What Pract...

This blog has talked at length in the past about how to raise a round, especially a seed, and building an...
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Secondary In Your Startup? 4 Things Entrepreneurs / Investors Should K...

A previous article Secondaries: Founders and Investors defined a secondary as when you sell your existing shares to another investor. Secondaries...
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Why We Invested in Salú – Health At Work

Excited to announce our investment alongside Softbank (Upload Ventures), Aggir and Norte in the now oversubscribed $2M seed of Salú, which...
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Multitasking: Best Practices To Leave And Found A New Startup?

The short answer is most definitely yes. While every situation is unique, the three cases below provide a framework around the...
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Under The Hood: How VC Funds Operate (And How That Is Changing)

This is an article meant primarily for entrepreneurs and LPs (limited partners i.e., those investing in a VC fund), albeit we...
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Perfecting Your Pitch Deck? 10 Practices For Entrepreneurs

Pitch decks are a topic of permanent debate, no matter how much has been written about them. As such, this article...
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Convertible vs SAFE — 5 Practical Principles For Startups

Raising a round and considering whether to do convertible or SAFE? Remember that convertible is debt that turns into equity based...
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Your Startup Is A Taking Off? 5 Ways To Incentivize New Employees

You have built the boat (or the rocket, or the plane, pick your favorite vehicle) and now it’s time to grow....
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No place at the table without this one table

An introduction to cap tables “Our potential investors asked as to present the cap table. What is he/she looking for?” I’ve...
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