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Why We Invested In Signos – Weight Loss Built For You

  Excited to announce the $13M series A led by GV in Signos, which helps you lose weight through continuous glucose...
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Cognitive Biases? What Are They And 6 Practical Ways For Startups To A...

Much has been written about cognitive biases — below is a particularly good diagram by Jeff Desjardins summarizing some of the...
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Why We Invested In Drip Capital — Financing For Developing Marke...

Excited to announce our investment alongside TI Platform, Sequoia, Accel India, Wing Ventures, Initialized Capital and YC in the $175M series...
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Uncapped Note? No Discount? Making Sense For Entrepreneurs

What is the right cap and discount for your convertible? Should you even have them at all? The latter used to...
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What is Up With These Mega Rounds? Making Sense Of The Startup Market

$530M round: Snyk snags another $530M as valuation rises to $8.5B $400M round: Cityblock Health raises another mega-round of funding, tipping...
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Signaling Risk? How Early Startups Can Work Best With Big Funds

Signaling risk typically happens when a large fund comes into an early round, creating an expectation in the market that they...
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Digital Health 2.0? The Next Generation Of Startup Business Models

At Tau Ventures, these are three principles we continue holding as generally true: i) In healthcare typical sales cycle to get...
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Hardware is Hard — 5 Practical Tips For Startups To Raise Succes...

You had a great idea. You built a great team. You know that hardware is a significant part of the product...
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Should I Raise More? 5 Principles For Entrepreneurs

Many things about startups are about power laws — fundraising included. The best companies do attract disproportionate attention and the entrepreneurs...
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So My Startup Is Not Growing As Fast — 5 Practical Tips To Still...

Long sales cycle? Marketing got too expensive? Spent too much time fixing the product? There are so many reasons why things...
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Closing Your Startup Round? 5 Practical Guidelines

Previous articles have talked about party rounds and keeping momentum in your fundraising. This one will focus specifically on the close,...
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Are you looking for strategic or financial investors?

You need to be aware of the rationale of each investor type before starting the process. And there’s even an invisible...
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