Venture Capital

Deep Tech Dive #6 | Jai Malik General Partner of Countdown Capital

Building with Machine Ethics For this week’s Deep Tech Dive I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jai Malik, General Partner...
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Why We Invested In RapidDeploy

Excited to announce our investment alongside Morpheus Ventures in the series B of RapidDeploy which provides a unified public safety workflow,...
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Going Crazy Managing A Fundraise? 5 Practical Guidelines For Entrepren...

At Tau Ventures we believe the fundraising process is always a bit broken — it works for some startups some of...
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A Failing Startup? 5 Best Practices

We often talk about what to do for your startup to succeed. But what to do when you have to call...
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Fundraising Intermediaries? Why Entrepreneurs Don’t Do It, And W...

When it comes to startup fundraising, using intermediaries is looked disfavorably in many if not most ecosystems. Three key reasons for...
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Crowdfunding? 3 Principles For Entrepreneurs

Oculus. Glowforge. Flow. Exploding Kittens. Veronica Mars. Tile. The Coolest Cooler. BauBax. Fidget Cube. What do all of these companies have...
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Why Founders Should (Mostly) Stay CEOs

Amazon. Apple. Google. Facebook. Microsoft. Oracle. What all these companies have in common is one of the founders was / is...
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Be a Better Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurs always look for the right recipe to increase the odds of success. Steve Blank was probably one of the “recipe”...
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Pre-emptive round? 4 Ways To Decide How Startups Should Approach It

Someone wants to give you money before you start fundraising? When you still have cash in the bank? And you are...
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Second Mover Advantage — 3 Key Principles To Succeed As A Fast F...

Ask the general public and they will tell you being the first into a market is the key to winning. But...
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Should I Take This Money? 5 Major Ways VCs Invest In You — And H...

VCs come in many different shapes: investment thesis, fund size, geographic focus, profit-motivated versus strategic returns, and how they invest. Indeed,...
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Why Diagnostics Is Hard: Three Extra Challenges And How Startups Can S...

Diagnostics shares the same two key challenges as most of digital health. One, long sales cycles of 9-18 months into providers,...
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