273 Stories To Learn About Venture Capital

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Exit While You're On Top: Money stories from the frontlines of the world's many Silicon Valleys

1. Top Ten Startup Ecosystems in the World 2019: Flat Earth Ahead

We skipped last year, but this year SparkLabs Group is back with our fourth rankings and report of the Top Ten Startup Ecosystems in the World.

2. Top 7 Investment Firms Leading NFT Venture Rounds

Who invests in NFT? Here's the list of the top VCs and investors who invest in NFT, metaverse, play2earn industry.

3. The Gaming Ecosystem Explained

Video gaming is one of, if not the biggest avenues of entertainment in current times. It has evolved into this mammoth industry that directly rivals the movie industry. The reboot of the popular PC game Call of Duty Modern Warfare raked $600mn within just 3 days of its release. More people are playing more games than ever as newer trends have given rise to a whole new generation of ‘cyber-athletes’ and E-sports. People have taken to watching others play games so much so that E-sports might be an event in the Olympics by 2024. Almost every major tech giant is already in or trying to solve the puzzle of video games. This has grown into an ecosystem after the spread of the internet and mobile. But how big is it really?

4. List of Top VC Firms Investing Into Promising HR Startups [Part 4]

Hi there! My name is Vitalii Berdichevskyi, I’m a Product Manager. In this essay of the series I will share with you List of top VC's invested in HR Tech. Previous parts of the series you can find below:

5. Pivot via Repositioning

The restroom story

6. Valuing a Startup with Negative EBITDA

Learn how to value a startup with negative EBITDA a startup valuation tool that stands for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.

7. How to Find Capital for Your Business

One of the primary keys in setting up a business is having capital. If you don't have one, you must be seeking business capital.

8. Founders, ditch your long presentations. Here’s how to make a 5-slide pitch deck

Investors spend less than 3 minutes on each deck. Use these tips to turn your 20-slide deck into a short 5-slide presentation.

9. Pros and Cons of Venture Capital for Startups and their Founders

3 reasons to seek venture capital financing and 3 reasons why you should not get VC

10. What are Structured Crypto Deposits?

A structured deposit has a maturity date like a fixed deposit, but it is completely dependent on the performance of the underlying financial assets

11. An Intro to Metaverse Venture Capital

The metaverse represents a hot topic for investors but for many smaller venture funds and family offices there’s a lack of understanding of the opportunity.

12. 3 PR Tactics Startups Should Prioritize to Attract Investors

Early-stage startups are often faced with the challenge of attracting investors without having a large-scale PR campaign.

13. Startups Don't Need NDAs: 5 reasons Why Nobody Will Steal Your Idea

Startups often ask to sign an NDA before sharing any metrics with VCs. Here are top five reasons why this is generally a bad idea.

14. The 5 Steps to Becoming the God of Pitch Decks

A step-by-step plan on becoming the God of Pitches for investors and start-up contests.

15. While Investors Scour for Homeruns, Founders Should Prioritize Getting on Base

If investors only know how to spot short-term, moonshot yields, is it possible that the overwhelming majority of successful startups get overlooked?

16. #FoundersConnect: Duncan Muchangi, Principal @ Unicorn Growth, Former MD, Jumia Group & Antler E.A

Interview with Kenyan VC, Duncan Muchangi and founder of Unicorn Growth Capital.

17. How To Invest More Intelligently

A decade and half ago, when I first started getting interested in public markets investing, I had started by making a small portfolio that I could play with. Just to see if I actually knew what I thought I knew, and to try and make sense of my beliefs about the market. And no surprise, I didn't know what I thought I knew.

18. Venture Capital: What is the Price of Freedom?

Entrepreneurs love being their own bosses. They want to build a company that fits the mission and vision that got them started in the first place. Following one’s passion is very satisfying and, if done right, can make a founder rich. But building a dream is demanding, with endless hours of work and no vacations.

19. Pitching VCs? Use This Reverse Psychology Trick To Get Funded

You’re planning a big adventure — skydiving or swimming with the sharks, for example — you’ve probably got the details mapped out.

20. Dear Entrepreneurs, Here's How to Love Fundraising

If you are an Entrepreneur and have a pulse, fundraising is one of the worst things that you have to deal when you are running a Startup.

21. How Didactic's Move to Crowdfunding Signals Opportunity for All

Didactic's crowdfunding will change the crowdfunding space.

22. I Helped Build 5 Companies before 34 and This is The #1 Mistake First time Founders Make

The debate was deadlocked. Three members of my team at Kanary—the platform I’d built for brands to buy digital ad space—agreed with me, and three didn’t. It was 2013, and I’d spent the last year building Kanary as the company’s founder and CEO.

23. Understanding Term Sheets -  Part 1: Liquidation Preferences

Liquidation preferences determine how the proceeds are shared in a liquidity event such as the sale of the company or its assets.

24. Strategic Partnership Between Humans.ai, MorningStar Ventures Set to Make a Splash in Blockchain

A look at a deep tech start-up dedicated to building a framework for using ethical practices within the world of artificial intelligence.

25. D2C 101: Why the Future of Retail is Vertical Commerce and D2C Brands

For as long as humanity has existed, so has commerce in the form of sharing, bartering and selling resources. Even before currency in its most rudimentary form has come into existence in Mesopotamia in 3000BC, economies were created through bartering where people would exchange goods/services based on perceived value (Person A would want to sell Item A to Person B who finds Item A valuable in return for Item B which holds more value to Person A than it does to Person B).

26. Building the bank for startups: Immad Akhund of Mercury [Interview]

Fintech startups have become undeniably attractive in the last few years, receiving a lot of attention from media outlets and VCs. I spoke with Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury, to understand the vision for his new company that aims to define the future of banking for startups.

27. We Raised $450k For Omnisearch’s Pre-Seed Round: Here's What We Learned

Eight key takeaways from raising Omnisearch's pre-seed round.

28. The Future of Web 3.0 for Creators, Travel Apps & Low-Code Tools

3 startup opportunities for your next venture.

29. How Aggregators Are Replacing Brands [Tweetstorm]

30. How Silicon Valley Bank Went Under - And the Tech Execs Who Stepped Up

As small-scale startups scrambled to make payroll while the future of the tech industry stood threatened, many of its prominent leaders looked for ways to help.

31. How Technology is Helping Venture Capitalists Make Investment Decisions

From stone tools to the invention of the wheel to steam engines to the internet, technology has come a long way, it has overtaken nearly all major aspects of our lives. Just take this article for example, you wouldn’t be reading it if it wasn’t for technology.

32. 3 Best Tips To Attract Investors Being An Outsider

Unshackled Ventures founding partner Nitin Pachisia explains three ways he built a strong network during his fundraising journey.

33. Here's Why We Invested in Turing — The Future of CPG Formulation

Iteration is the new innovation…

34. Growing Your Influencer Brand Into a Sustainable Business

35. Not All The Companies Are The Same

In the context of the coronavirus crisis, many companies began experiencing cash flow shortfalls. In order to avoid the liquidity problem, which eventually may turn into a solvency issue, businesses were forced to cut their operational costs.

36. No Niche: Status Quo of the OSS Market

Some good stories start with a printer. And stories with a printer often end in frustration. This particular story starts with a printer in the 1970s...

37. How to Choose the Right Partners in a Venture Capital Fund

When you are searching for the right venture capital fund, there are a lot of factors that can go into deciding which fund to choose.

38. 8 Types of Investors for Your Small Business

Wondering how to find investors for your startup? Finding the right investor is key to the success of your business.

39. The Beginners' Guide to Gut Checking your Competition

The beginners' guide to competitive analysis. Here are the best tools to see how your competition is doing.

40. [Announcement] Wise Raises $12M To Accelerate Embedded Banking Partnerships

Wise, the leading embedded banking FinTech, that offers business banking via partnerships, announced today that it has closed a $12M Series A.

41. How to Fund the Metaverse

Jonathan Pullinger is the token marketing manager at Outlier Ventures with vast experience in NFTs and blockchain-related technologies. We interviewed gin.

42. Why My New Book is a Failed Attempt at Something I Can’t Put My Finger On

On June 30th, 2020 my new book, The Humility Imperative — Effective Leadership in an Era of Arrogance — will be released.

43. Understanding What VC Funds Are and How They Make Money

How do VC funds decide to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in startups, where they get the money from, and how does a VC firm make money?

44. Understand Term Sheets  -  Part 2: Protection for Future Down-Rounds

Understanding pay-to-play and antidilution provisions in a term sheet

45. How to Boost Your High Level Business Objectives to Appeal to VCs

The decision to welcome the help of outside investors is never an easy one, so it seems unfair that after most businesses make the decision of turning to venture capital they then have to embark on an arduous path towards gaining a windfall.

46. The Harmonizing Marriage Between Gaming and Social Media

Andreesen Horowitz recently announced they’ve led a $16.5 million investment in gaming company Singularity6. While I’m a huge fan of a16z in general and a big believer in the power of gaming, I am not sure Singularity6 can live up to their promises of a new social network. This is my mental thought process of why.

47. How Running a Venture Capital Firm is Similar to Playing Basketball

Justin Caldbeck of Binary Capital explains similarities between basketball game and a venture capital firm.

48. How to Launch a Tech Startup and Raise Financing in the U.S.

Starting a tech business in the U.S. can be a challenge and a privilege. While the market is large, the competition is intense and consumer standards are high.

49. Inside PG&E: What I Learned Pitching

When a culture of risk aversion creates risk of harm

50. Can Multi-Cloud Kubernetes Platforms Make Infrastructure Prices Comparable?

Kubernetes enables you to deploy, scale and manage your container-based applications and multi-cloud management tools simplify the use of different clouds. Together this might help us to finally understand and optimize the pricing of our infrastructure.

51. What Rowing For The U.S. National Team And Building A Startup Have In Common

Saying “it’s not fair” won’t get you there. To be the best, you have to beat everyone.

52. Going from N00b GameFi Investor to Boss Mode - Blockchain Gaming Part 2

The gaming industry is at an inflection point, as platforms go from fragmented experimentation with blockchain technology to potential mass implementation of P2

53. Valuable Insights About The Fundraising Process

We Raised a $26M Series-A to Change How Data Is Moved with our open-source ELT solution. Here's how we did it, deck included

54. A Guide to Startup Funding Series Stages for Product Managers

The role of a product manager varies across the startup spectrum, from early-stage to the expansion stage. And knowing the stage of a startup when taking on a product management role can help you set the right expectations.

55. Why Traditional Investment Bankers Don't Work Well with Startups

by Harry Friedberg, partner, BX3 Capital

56. Blockchain Isn't Coming to Wall Street in 2020. It's Already Here.

Wall Street began in colonial times, with wealthy traders creating the rules of the game. Hundreds of years later, the abscesses of capitalism and deregulation, such as the abolition of the Glass-Steagall Act, led to the 2008 financial crisis. In the aftermath of Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy, the Bitcoin cryptocurrency was devised, and an experimental financial system was born.

57. One Man's Shitcoin is Another Man's Life Savings

Gone are the days when Bitcoin was the only known cryptocurrency. Countless blockchain projects have been created over the years.

58. The Millennial Way of Investing in Blockchain and Other Emerging Technologies

Investing in tomorrow’s technologies today is a young person’s game and that the “Millennial Way” of venture capitalism is the way of the future.

59. Why We Invested in Multis, The Self Custodian Bank for the Digital Era

Why we invested in Multis

60. The Hedge Fundization of VC

The Hedge Fundization of VC

61. Can You Join the Startup World Without Quitting Your Job?

(a.k.a. How to Invest Like a Sophisticated Poker Player)

62. What's in a Domain Name? - How ccTLDs Hacked into Startups

Over the last 10 years, there’s been a significant increase in tech startups and new companies using country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) in lieu of more traditional, and old school, domain extensions like .com, .net, and .org.

63. The Drivers of Company Valuation

The second of three articles on corporate valuations and capital structures.

64. Data Leak of $1B “Tech Unicorn” Gorillas Shows How Far Venture Capital Has Fallen

VC money is spilling out onto the streets, and despite millions of dollars of investment tech companies still neglect their security.

65. 25 Startup Tips From 25 Venture Backed Founders

A collection of insider tips from our "How I Raised It" podcast

66. When Technological Innovation Meets Venture Capitalism

“You have to debug your business model.”

67. How Does a Blockchain VC Fund Choose What to Invest in?

As capital floods into this ever-evolving space, we talk with Charles Read about how he finds and invests in the innovations of tomorrow.

68. Investing in A Disruptive Technology: A How-to Guide

As a person eager to discover new trends and tech opportunities, I decided to dwell upon the idea of “disruptors” and explain why these technologies are the game-changers in different areas of our lives.

69. Family Offices: The Secret Instrument to Keeping Your Wealth

According to a study by American expert and businessman Russ Alan Prince, three quarters of surveyed wealthy people in the world (with assets of more than $30 million) prefer to use the services of multi-family offices (MFOs). At the same time, 85% of those participating in the study would like to organize their own family office — single-family office (SFO), if they could afford it. It is very unusual that such sentiments arise despite standardization and automation of financial services. Today, managing your own liquidity is no longer technologically complex, and the link to the bank, as an infrastructure, is weakening.

70. Startup Metrics: 16 Ways to Measure Network Effects

[This post was co-authored by me and my colleague at a16z, D’Arcy Coolican (@dcoolican). This is a companion to our other essay exploring the dynamics of network effects. If you’re an operator, we’d love to hear your thoughts on how you measure your own product’s network effects!]

71. Airtable: 26 Firms Offering Non-Dilutive Funding Options to Founders

Raise money without giving up a piece of your company

72. Community-as-a-Service Concept: How You Can Monetize Access

73. Helium Network Adoption: A Deeper Dive into HNT

The Helium Network is backed by several companies and VC firms in the hopes that this disruptive tech will solve for supply chain issues and scaling demands.

74. What is the Biggest Risk For Passion Economy Startups?

Creators want a direct relationship with their own users, which is against the platforms’ DNA. E.g. FB restricts ability for large group admins to message members. Agree that platforms adding in direct monetization features is a big risk though to new startups in the Passion Economy. Here’s some tactics for startups to hedge against incumbents:

75. Bootstrapping A Marketplace: "Fake It Till You Make It" Strategy

76. The Calculated Risks That Allowed Me to Retire at Age Forty

My Story

77. Play-to-Earn Gaming Provides Multi-Layered Value to Investors

Plat-to-earn: the evolution of gaming, a pyramid scheme, or the missing link to mass blockchain adoption?

78. Top 10 Tips to Help First-Time Founders Secure VC Funding

This article provides a complete guide that can help you get the perfect Venture capital funding for your company.

79. 5 Pros and Cons of Using a DCF Valuation

Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Valuation is an analysis that finds the value of an investment on the basis of expected future cash flows.

80. Draper Goren Holm’s LA Blockchain Summit Announces $1 Million Dollar Bitcoin Giveaway

The unforeseen COVID-19 pandemic has shifted the world of business conferences into a whole new dimension. Draper Goren Holm, a blockchain venture studio co-owned by billionaire Tim Draper, has decided that the safety of LA Blockchain Summit attendees comes first and therefore is sending the event into cyberspace.

81. The Rise of E-commerce Roll-ups & New Business Opportunities

Today, there are new companies that consolidate independent private label brands with decent revenue. They are the aggregators of e-commerce brands.

82. An Open Source Starting Point For Abstracting Common Backend Tasks

Appwrite Is a New Open-Source Backend That Strives to Make Programming Less Painful

83. Being A Creator: Definition, Economy, Tools and More

84. Advice for Founders During Uncertain Times

Having been in the VC business for 22 years now, we have had the misfortune of living through at least two major downturns. While each has its own unique characteristics, there are a few lessons that may be relevant in responding to the latest crisis.

85. How To Explore Your Startup Idea With ZERO Money

A couple years ago I was teaching a small course at Stanford about Entrepreneurship and I remember the number one question was how to raise money.

86. How COVID-19 Has Impacted Venture Capital Funding

Remember when we thought COVID was just a horrible stage in our lives that would disappear after a month of masks and hand sanitizer? Oh, how sweet and naïve we were. As the pandemic marches on and many countries consider a second lockdown, businesses are having to look back on how they have managed these last 7 months and strategize for a corona-filled future.

87. The Secret Behind Successful Marketplaces [Tweetstorm]

Thread: The best consumer marketplaces end up supply-constrained, because they tap into an incredible amount of demand. For instance, Airbnb, Lyft, and Uber have seemingly infinite demand since the product/market fit is so strong–and this demand puts pressure on supply.

88. Lessons From the WeWork and Blue Apron Hype

Startup founders' dreams are often filled with massive fundraising rounds, IPOs, and high valuations, and their nightmares with crashing stock prices and angry VCs. WeWork and Blue Apron have long been the type of company many founders look up to, but they seem to be facing their demise in 2019. How do companies with so much initial promise crash and burn so quickly? And how do we avoid the same fate?

89. Why am I launching She-VC with ‘Women in VC’ global community?

Venture capital is often called a ‘bro industry’ and the reasons are many. I was told that I may be the first female General Partner in a sports VC fund and I was shocked that we are still talking about firsts in 2018/2019.

90. Li Jin: My Path to Venture Capital

91. What Makes A Venture Studio So Successful at Building Startups?

As an increasing number of venture studios break into the entrepreneurial scene, it’s time to analyze what makes this model so competitive.

92. Why We Invested in Hacker Noon: Genesis Investments

Like all industries, the entertainment and media industry evolve: content becomes digital first, readers go less for sensationalized and more for high-quality stories, outdated monetization strategies including intrusive ads and sponsored posts die off and new ones emerge. Nowadays, content helps companies build their brand and share job vacancies. It helps writers build up their CVs and exchange professional ideas. Some media outlets monetize via subscriptions, while others rely on independent contributors and their community, and less on full-time journalists.

93. Analyzing Blockchain Business Models

In the Blockchain Model, we want to understand how the protocol connects the value model to everything else. The rules of the Blockchain make it compelling.

94. Carve Out a Niche of AWS

About Unbundling AWS

95. Passion Economy: Future of Social Products [Tweetstorm]

I like this article by Sam Lessin on the future of social, but think there’s a big omission. Namely, one of the major opportunities in social is to first focus on helping creators monetize and own their audiences, then layering in social elements on top.

96. Passion Economy: Not All Communities Are Created Equal

97. On The Issues of Grant Process

In 2019, the value of U.S. venture capital investments was $108 billion. In the same year, the federal government spent $131 billion on research and development.

98. 5 Things That Make Ecommerce Startups Work

99. Chingari Raises $15 million in Funding from Republic Capital, Onmobile and JPIN Venture Catalysts

Chingari Raises Investment for its Social Media Token, $Gari with Republic Capital leading the round with 15 million in funding.

100. Delphi Digital, Arrington Capital, Gnosis and Flow Ventures Invest $3.5 million in Azuro

Azuro raised $3.5 million in a seed round from Gnosis, Flow Ventures, Polymorphic Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Delhi Digital, Arrington Capital, and Meta Cartel

101. That Moment When You're Boarding a Flight Home, and Andreessen Horowitz Calls...

Joseph Woodbury of Neighbor.com shares three pieces of advice on how to raise capital — from integrating yourself into the local ecosystem to being able to change your plans on a moment’s notice.

102. How to Find and Message Investors on LinkedIn

Here's how to look for investors on LinkedIn, and what should be in the first email to get interested in your project.

103. Venom Ventures Fund Aims to Nurture Real-World Blockchain Use Cases, says Mustafa Kheriba

Mustafa Kheriba is the Executive Chairman of Iceberg Capital Limited, an asset manager. He launched the Venom Ventures Fund (VVF) in partnership with Venom.

104. The 20 Slides That Raised $7 Million

Fundraising is a funny art.

105. Why Blockchain And Solar Are A Match Made in Heaven

Investors have approached blockchain with more than a healthy degree of skepticism, though it has undoubtedly brought about transformational change across three levels: Infrastructure, protocols, and applications.

106. The Two Biggest Mistakes Founders Make While Trying to Raise Venture Capital

First-time founders reach out to me via Twitter for general fundraising advice or for deck review, and over time I noticed a common pattern amongst those who have trouble raising money. The two biggest mistakes appear to be rooted in poor assumptions about raising venture funding in the first place:

107. Is It A Good Time To Buy Small-Cap Stocks?

Small-cap stocks refer to stocks that have a small market capitalization and generally hover between US$300 million and US$2 billion.

108. Looking at the Startup Ecosystem: Fundraising Market Map

This map is a visual overview of every company that helps you get an investment for your startup, from pitch decks to captable management.

109. How To Raise Capital for Blockchain Projects (and other startups)

Venture capitalists get pitched hundreds of times a year. And, even though countless articles have been written on the topic of how to present a startup to professional investors, entrepreneurs consistently fail to address check points needed by the investor to come to a decision.

110. Fundraising: No One is Going to Do It For You

My "Tough Love" Talk To Founders Who Are Struggling To Raise Capital

111. What the Pandemic Taught Me About Product/Market Fit

The question is not, “Does the company have product/market fit or not?”. The more appropriate question is, “What’s the strength of the company’s product/market fit?”

112. Building an E-Sports Empire: How John Fazio Took Nerd Street Gamers from Bootstrap to $25 Million

John Fazio built Nerd Street Gamers into an in esports and gaming infrastructure by finding premier investors who align strongly with his vision.

113. Critical Necessities of the Venture-Backed Startup

Once you’ve obtained the capital required to launch your startup, it’s time to look at fulfilling your technical needs. Do you have a secure web server? An IT security specialist? A reliable computer setup? These are all important, but there’s more.

114. Why the Southeast Is a Great Place to Launch a Startup

When considering where to launch their startup, many entrepreneurs naturally think of the “Innovation Hubs” of Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and New York City. After all, that is where the deals are, right? Well, they’re not the only places where companies are being launched and receiving game-changing investments.

115. Future of Technology in Modern Education: Hallway Conversation

116. Why Start a Bank? Interview with Mercury CEO Immad Akhund

Fintech startups have become undeniably attractive in the last few years, receiving a lot of attention from media outlets and VCs. I spoke with Immad Akhund, co-founder and CEO of Mercury, to understand the vision for his new company that aims to define the future of banking for startups.

117. Harmony Ecosystem Fund Approved 21 New Grants in January

Harmony Protocol has already approved 21 proposals to be part of its $300M Ecosystem Fund in January 2022.

118. Web 3.0 is Changing Venture Capital and Accelerator Models

There must be a better way for startups to break through the ceiling.

119. How Threads Raised A $10M+ Series A Led By Sequoia Capital

Four fundraising tips from Rousseau Kazi of Threads.com

120. Your Complete Guide To Venture Capital Funding For Startups

Venture Capital is an institutional investment made into early-stage startup companies. If you want the investment, you need to work on a growth plan.

121. Startup Advice: Zebra, not Unicorn.

Focus on creating products that the market needs and chasing customers, not on creating the perfect pitch for investors that see you as a commodity.

122. Pros and Cons of Running a Managed Marketplace

123. How Irrational Exuberance aligned Dot-Com and Crypto bubbles.

Intro

124. You'll Never Believe How Fast The Creator Economy Is Growing Today

Warhol declared, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." But was not predicted was that everyone's “fame” would be experienced simultaneously.

125. RE: "New Normal" — Today's Thriving Startups Will Be Camels, Not Unicorns

Unicorn is the term given to startups that are able to achieve a billion-dollar valuation, although not as rare as they were a decade ago, these startups are still often time the center of Silicon Valley’s obsession with building, finding and funding the next big thing. The majority of Unicorn startups are known for growing tremendously fast and burning cash without any sign of profit or a single dime in revenue.

126. How to Create a “Killer Pitch Deck”

How to build a 'Killer Deck' investment presentation.

127. How to Build A Content Marketing Flywheel for Your VC Firm

A content marketing flywheel can help your VC firm stand out and win competitive rounds easily like OpenView Partners and First Round Capital. Here is how.

128. How to Raise Funds Successfullly 3 Tips from VC-Turned-Entrepreneur Lewis Gersh

Lewis shares lessons learned from his time on the other side of the table as a VC of Metamorphic Ventures.

129. Passion Economy: The "Influencer Stack" and Chinese Influencer Incubators [Tweetstorm]

130. The Ultimate Startup Conflict: Can You Chase Growth and Profitability at the Same Time?

Bill Boebel is good at seeing things from different angles.

131. Millennial investors: the most powerful crowdinvesting force

In 2019, small and medium businesses looking to raise capital often choose crowdinvesting over venture capital and other traditional fundraising methods.

132. 10 Things You Do After You Sell Your Startup

133. Startup Metrics: The Dynamics of Network Effects

[This essay was co-authored by my colleague D’Arcy Coolican (@dcoolican) and me. We also compiled a list of metrics to measure your network effects.]

134. Raising Money? Prioritize Smart Money

When raising capital, not all startups have options—they only receive one term sheet from one interested investor. And that should be celebrated. However, some startups are “hot” enough to attract multiple VCs.

135. Jason Calacanis Publicly Shot Down Andrew Farah’s Pitch — And It Helped Get His Startup $16 Million

The premise of Andrew Farah’s startup is pretty simple.

136. Open Source in a Cloud World: An Investment Perspective

In the original days of the new software stack evolution, there was a fringe section which consisted of developers getting together in old fashioned chat rooms, offline and online, and coding for the love of it. When Linus Torvalds started the project to create a new operating system it was a way of community activation. Back in university, open source wasn't known as such, Linux wasn't the paragon of open source, instead it was a good enough version that allowed one to not pay for Microsoft Windows.

137. Social-as-a-Service Concept

“There are only two ways to make money in business: one is to bundle; the other is unbundle.” — Jim Barksdale, former CEO and President of Netscape.

138. What I Learned From 3.5 Years as a Product Leader at a VC Backed SaaS Startup

I first heard of Elium, formerly known as Knowledge Plaza, in 2011. I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision.

139. What Milestones Do You Need to Hit to Raise That VC Money?

Raising funds can be an exciting and terrifying part of your startup journey. This is finally your chance to raise the money your startup needs!

140. Musk's Open-Source Hyperloop: Players in the Race to Create the First

Originally conceived by Elon Musk in 2013, the Hyperloop has been touted as the fastest way to cross the surface of the Earth. Possibly one of the greatest leaps in transportation for generations, the concept promises to slash journey times between cities from several hours to a matter of minutes. On track to revolutionise our world, when can we expect the Hyperloop to become a reality and is it too good to be true?

141. What Will the Next Era of Marketplaces Look Like?

142. The Winner Loser Continuum; and 3 More Lessons from Jordan B. Peterson

Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist and psychology professor at the University of Toronto who became a controversial figure in late-2016 for his critiques of political correctness. Peterson’s most recent book, 12 Rules for Life, has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Most recently, Peterson has suffered from health issues that necessitated a year-long reprieve from the public eye.

143. The Funding Ask Slide: How to Make it Better?

Asking for money isn't always as straightforward as it seems. Ask for too much, and you can end up looking for funds for months or years on end. Fail to show ho

144. Passion Economy is a Consumer Enterprization Movement

145. An Interview with Investor Gianfranco Filice on His Recent Investment Pledge Finance

Interview with Gianfranco Filice, the US-based venture investment partner at OVO Fund, on his recent investment in Pledge Finance.

146. About Your Startup’s New Funding Round [Founder Interview Template]

Get media coverage for your startup funding round by answering this interview template on HackerNoon!

147. The Future of Marketplaces: Reinventing the $10 Trillion Service Economy

[I co-wrote this essay with my a16z partner Andrew Chen. We’re excited about the future of marketplaces and the service economy. Hope you enjoy this glimpse into our thinking, and let us know if you have any feedback!]

148. Fintech Is Dead: All Hail Insurtech

Wall Street. Tokyo. London. Shanghai. Hong Kong.

149. 5 Things Standing in the Way of Crypto Asset Institutionalization — and How to Fix Them

When will we see crypto become a fully-fledged institutionalized asset class?

150. OYO Rooms is Going to Be India's WeWork: A Case Study

Another Softbank Portfolio Company That Has Toxic Culture and No Clear Path to Profitability

151. The Unbundling of Excel: How SaaS Businesses Are Replacing Excel

Weekly tech analysis, market deep-dive & strategy. Today’s post is about the future of SaaS.

152. How Allison and Gregory Robinson Raised $11 Million For "The Mom Project"

Gregory Robinson’s Fundraising Journey For A Market That Helps Women Return To The Workforce (As told to Nathan Beckord)

153. Last-Mile Delivery: What Industry Leaders Look for in Startup Partners

Major players in the delivery industry - including incumbents such as UPS, FedEx, SF Express and DHL - have demonstrated a keen interest in establishing relationships vertically with accomplished startups specializing in autonomous and intelligent logistics and transportation. The convergence of several key trends serves as the impetus for the collaborations:

154. 5 Startup/VC Trends Coming Out of the Pandemic

Venture capital is a long game. Startups take many years to mature before venture capitalists can get a return on their investment. While you may think that VC investment is down during the economic downturn, this is only true in the short term, primarily because VCs are concerned with how their existing portfolio companies will make it through the crisis.

155. Outtakes From The First Draft of Hacker Noon's Crowdfunding Campaign

It's been over 14 months since we launched the Hacker Noon Equity Crowdfunding Campaign and almost a year since we successfully raised the max amount of $1.07M.

156. From Graduating College to Raising $1+ Million Dollars in 9 months

I was studying Mechanical Engineering in my final year at college in the UK when I joined my roommate and his friend in building an app called Cluttr they started developing in the Summer of 2017.

157. The Unusual Strategy This Entrepreneur Used To Raise Most of His Round Before It Even Started

A few years ago, Matthew Klein and his brother Andrew saw that the retail landscape was changing and that companies needed more agility than ever.

158. The WeWork Crisis: How Blockchain Could Help The Company Regain its Former Glory Days

“The only constants in life are death and taxes,” is a phrase most of us have heard. The WeWork IPO constant is “debt and obligations.”

159. Why Bootstrapping Can Help Startups Raise VC Money

When it comes to defining startup success, no milestone seems more desired than achieving unicorn status. In fact, we usually celebrate stats, such as the funding startups raise and their resulting valuations.

160. 7 Giant Businesses That Started in Garages and Basements

When we think of the world's most successful companies, we think about large offices and employees that were there from the very beginning. In fact, many companies started their business in the founder's bedroom or garage.

161. How Carta is Capturing the Atomic Unit of the Entrepreneurial Stack

When founders, limited partners, and investors ask us which companies exemplify Tribe’s culture, process, and decision-making towards successful outcomes, we point to three companies: Facebook, Slack, and Carta. These companies track our trajectory from operators to investors culminating in our partnership with Carta, where we’ve doubled, tripled and quadrupled down on our initial investment. This article explains why at Tribe we say, “We make N-of-1 companies.”

162. New Forms of Collateral Arrive To Diversify DeFi

So far, the only trustworthy collateral in the crypto space is BTC and ETH. Stablecoins became a trend because they can also be used as collateral for loans and expand the balance sheets of services such as Maker and Compound. To expand credit in the crypto market, new forms of collateral are needed.

163. Startups With Ukrainian Roots Raise $200+ Million in 2022

Due to the global financial crisis, the looming recession, and the war in Ukraine, no one expected to see large rounds.

164. How 100 True Fans Can Change Everything

More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living off their creations, whether an artist, musician, author, or entrepreneur. Rather than pursuing widespread celebrity, he argued, creators only needed to engage a modest base of “true fans”—those who will “buy anything you produce”—to the tune of $100 per fan, per year (for a total annual income of $100,000). By embracing online networks, he believed creators could bypass traditional gatekeepers and middlemen, get paid directly by a smaller base of fans, and live comfortably off the spoils.

165. Slide by Slide Analysis of My $1.4 Million SaaS Seed Funding Pitch Deck

See the actual pitch deck we used to raise our 1.2M seed round including my comments on each of the slides, feedback from VCs, and pitching tips

166. How the Founder of “SaaS for Daycare” Raised a $4.2

For parents of toddlers and babies, finding the right daycare can be a huge challenge. Jessica Chang saw this as an opportunity.

167. Descriptive Analysis: Why Did These 500 Trending Startups Shut Down?

Discovering meaningful patterns in business failures.

168. Why a YC Rejection Isn't The End of The World

If you've been following tech entrepreneurs on social media channels, you've probably seen many people sharing their stories about getting rejected from YC—the famed startup accelerator in Silicon Valley. A few others shared their success stories, and the vast majority of applicants remained silent as the decision letters were rolled out.

169. How Licious Turned a Simple Idea Into a Billion-Dollar Startup

How did Licious created a trustworthy meat brand in the fresh meat industry and a billion-dollary startup in just 6 years?

170. The Data Behind Colorado's First-ever Rural Venture Capital Pitch Event

Download the full report here.

171. Disruption Theory for the Passion Economy: 4 Major Implication (Part 2)

Passion Economy platforms are rooted in a value proposition that deeply appeals to workers—they lower the barriers to earning income

172. $1.3M in Funding for Rural Colorado Founders via the Greater Colorado Pitch Series 2.0

This year, applicants to the Greater Colorado Pitch Series can apply for 4 different capital tracks and $1.3M in total investment is available.

173. For Founders: How the Venture Capital Investors Deal With Your Pitch Deck

А useful guide for founders on how to prepare a pitch deck and how we look on it as a VC investor.

174. What to Know Before Joining an Accelerator

Starting a business is hard and requires making tough decisions. More than that, most startups struggle to find the necessary investment. This is why many startup founders seek to join an accelerator that will make the initial investment and provide quality mentor support.

175. After Analyzing Over 8k Companies Worldwide, We Learned that Startup Failure is a Feature, Not a Bug

Especially when over 85% of startups won't survive up to 10 years.

176. Startup Wrappers Can Be Insanely Valuable

SaaS businesses (particularly ones for technical users) sometimes have to deal with a vocal outcry that their product “is just a wrapper around” something. The implication is that ‘a wrapper’ is inherently not valuable, and it’s impossible to build a great business around such a product. This logic is a product of lazy thinking and myopia; ‘wrappers’ can be insanely valuable.

177. 'Smart people with bad ideas can always pivot.' —LA MP Mark Tung

This post is part of the Hacker Noon Shareholder Series, where we interview some of the super-investors who made the site you're on right now possible.

178. The Story Behind Raising $59 Million For Pilot

As a 3x founder, Waseem had multiple advantages when raising venture capital – yet it still wasn't easy.

179. Five Tips for Nailing Your Remote Startup Pitch During the Pandemic

Now that almost everyone is working from home, startup founders looking to raise money from investors will need to do so remotely. In fact, in-person pitches may now be a thing of the past.

180. Secret Network Discloses $400 Million Ecosystem Fund

Read my article about $SCRT and their new ecosystem fund backed by major players in the #cryptocurrency space.

181. All 14 Slides from the Deck We Used to Raise Seed with Accel in 13 Days

Here's Airbyte deck for their Seed round with Accel in early 2021. This could be useful to startups in the open-source and dev worlds!

182. On Product and Parkour

Product, Parkour, and Pioneering: how the role of product management varies by stage of company

183. The Markdown Test

As an investor, I am focused on what I think of as ‘technical tools.’ That is, tools that either help developers build or deploy code, or tools that help pseudo-technical users do developer-like things. There are some edges for this where it’s hard to delineate what is/isn’t a tool for a technical user, especially in the collaboration space. In fact, much of my thinking here stems from the question, “so does this include stuff like Slack?,” which comes up a surprising amount in conversation.

184. Love, Death & Industrial Robots

By 2022 the number of operational industrial robots worldwide is expected to surpass the population of Berlin. Nowadays in our factories, flexible cobots work hand in hand with people and machine learning is helping them to become even more versatile. It is very fascinating to follow the developments of the fast-paced automation industry.

185. The Ugly Truth Behind IEOs and What to Expect in 2020

Let’s face it, you won’t be able to conduct a successful IEO unless you have a fully-operational and fully compliant prototype and unless you’ve clinched a listing deal with a major exchange with actual liquidity within its community of retail investors, and traders.

186. How Many Is "Too Many" Investors?

Brex Founder Henrique Duburas Believes You Should Pack Your Cap Table With As Many Investors As Possible

187. Why Did Our Private Equity Fund Need a CTO?

We live in a connected world.

188. How William the Conquerer Invented Humility

Following is the never-before published introduction for The Humility Imperative, releasing June 30th, 2020.

189. How to Protect Your Crypto Wallet from Hacks and Scams

Learn how to protect your cryptocurrency wallet from scams and theft.

190. Current Market Outlook: Insights for Seed Stage Founders

This short briefing note is prepared for founders who are considering, or are in the process of raising seed capital. The last few weeks have seen a significant shift in terms of the fundraising atmosphere, and investors’ appetite for risk.

191. Founder Interviews: Rousseau Kazi of Threads

What's your background?

192. 3 Common Mistakes Young Startup Founders Make

The 3 top mistakes and how to avoid them

193. Invert, Always Invert: Why a Problem Reversed is a Problem Solved

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there." - Charlie Munger

194. Here’s Why It Is Easier For Startups To Set Up Shop in Singapore and Hong Kong

Hong Kong and Singapore have emerged as the epicenters for startups and tech in Asia and worldwide. Both locations have attractive tax regimes for foreign companies and have invested heavily in government-backed startup programs, fostering positive growth and support in the region. Southeast Asia’s internet economy has more than tripled its size over the last four years, soaring to a US$100 billion for the first time in 2019 with expectations to reach US$300 billion by 2025.

195. Measuring Product Maturity: Frameworks for Early Stage VCs, Founders

In most new products today, the technological risk is minuscule in comparison with the risk of not achieving product-market fit.

196. Untangling Two of Today's Most Unnecessary Startup Fundraising Myths

If you are building a startup, you’ll find no shortage of people who are willing to give you advice, particularly when it comes to raising financing.  Unfortunately, much of this advice is wrong.

197. The Passion Economy’s Worklife Balance

The top-earning writer on the paid newsletter platform Substack earns more than $500,000 a year from reader subscriptions. The top content creator on Podia, a platform for video courses and digital memberships, makes more than $100,000 a month. And teachers across the US are bringing in thousands of dollars a month teaching live, virtual classes on Outschool and Juni Learning.

198. How Startup Investors Evaluate Entrepreneurs

When building your startup you can have a great idea and the perfect market conditions and still come up short. For both your startup and investors, execution is key.

199. How To De-Risk Your Startup And Become ‘Definitely Fundable’

Immad Akhund has invested in 100+ startups and was a Y Combinator Partner. Here are his tips for raising capital.

200. Disney Doubles Down on Content to Save Its Future

It's often said that content is king. For Disney, content is a savior. That’s the takeaway from Disney’s earnings report for the fiscal year and fourth quarter of 2020.

201. WeWork IPO Fiasco Proves Public Investors Have More Valuation Risk Than VCs

"If you invested in WeWork at a $47 billion valuation, you’re getting fleeced!"

202. Passion Economy: How to Organically Grow While Maintaining Paid Groups

203. How To Name Your Next Open Source Project

These are some AI-generated project names, courtesy of Namelix.

204. How a Bunch of Little Pitching Tweaks Helped This Founder Raise $4M For His Purchasing Software…

Serial entrepreneur Andrew Hoag had a huge frustration.

205. From Bribing Customers with Food to a Universal Secrets Manager: 5 Lessons from a First-Time Founder

Doppler's Brian Vallelunga shares five lessons he learned about raising capital and creating sustainable partnerships.

206. How An "Underdog" Founder Raised $4.7 Million To Build A Plastic-Free Grocery Delivery Service

Zuleyka Strasner raised $4.7 million for her environmentally-friendly store Zero Grocery in two years. She shares her advice on fundraising seed rounds.

207. 7 Tips for Managing Startups Through Troubled Times

The pandemic of 2020 has tested most sectors of the economy, and like the two most recent downturns in 2008 and 2001, this has been a very trying time for entrepreneurs running startups.

208. Learnings from the Big Market Tech Failures of Zune, Fire Phone, Windows Phone and Snap Spectacles

Last year, I did a talk, as part of orienting a team of automotive executives in modern way of iterative working, challenging the prevailing belief that perfect pre-planning backed by big money will always be a clear winner. I used a bunch of highly hyped tech failures to drive the point home. The talk inspired great discussions, and led to sea change in how we ended up working together afterwards. I hope you will find it equally stimulating.

209. How to Level the Playing Field for Women Entrepreneurs

Why do women founders only get 3% of startup funding? Personal account and action items from a female founder and investor for gender equity in venture capital.

210. Seven Finalists, including Hacker Noon, Announced for Rural Colorado Virtual Pitch Event

A distributed workforce, long prophesied by the tech community, has been accelerated by a decade in the last six months.

211. The Problem With Adam Neumann: When A King Wants To Be Rich

If you're raising venture capital funding, expect to be asked the question, "Do you want to be rich, or do you want to be king?" Some VC's use those exact words, others will ask questions to find the answer, but nearly every VC wants to know if a founder is driven more by profit or control.

212. Passion Economy Shall Be The Disruptor of 2021 and Beyond

Clayton Christensen's disruption theory and what it means for the Passion Economy

213. Trust Machine Raises $150 Million in Funding from Breyer Capital, DCG and Hivemind to Expand Web 3

Trust Machines raised $150 million to bring Web 3 to Bitcoin with funding from VCs.

214. Bootstrapping, Fundraising Or Both? How A Gritty Approach Helped Allie Magyar Raise Capital

After years of running events for huge companies, Allie Magyar decided she was spending too much of her time hovering over a fax machine.

215. Creativity is the Heart of Cybersecurity

Insights from a Q&A with Deflect’s Founder, Kevin Voellmer

216. The Next Consumer Apps and How to Build Them (3 Frameworks)

Insights are builders’ best friends. They help you see opportunities, launch new products, and win the market before everyone else.

217. How to Raise Venture Capital as a Student Founder: 4 Pieces of Advice

There are a plethora of successful companies that have been built on college campuses. From Dell to Facebook to Insomnia Cookies. When it comes to securing funding, many of the metrics venture capitalists typically use apply: evaluations of the team, product, market, business model, growth and timing. The list goes on.

218. What An Investor Needs to Feel to Say Yes to Your Startup

A Previous VC Reveals What Matters More Than Your Pitch Deck.

219. Ownership in Web3 Needn't be Obtained Through Capital Contribution - Unhashed #28

Unhashed is a QnA series where I speak with top execs of new and established blockchain projects to unravel the mystery of blockchain & crypto.

220. We're Jointer, Get to Know Us!

With a $5B+ market cap we want to welcome you to the future of cryptocurrency - Enter Jointer DeFi

221. Why Engineering Can't Be The Only Team Responsible for Keeping IoT Devices Online

You're a scooter-sharing start-up who just raised $100 million from Seq-reessen-losa Ventures. Cool. It's time to drop those 50,000 scooters you just unloaded from container ships fresh from Shenzhen. You have 100 cities on your todo list. What's your plan to keep track of them once you've unleashed them on millions of unsuspecting citizens?

222. More Proof that Venture Capitalists Don’t Care About Diversity, Equity, or Inclusion

Venture Capital is already known for being remarkably not diverse. Yet despite some investors being blasted for tone-deaf actions in June related to racial equity, most have not taken any lessons from the past, and fewer have updated their investment strategies to acknowledge their complicity in propagating inequality.

223. Three Non-Obvious Fundraising Tips from the Startup Veterans Behind Lovevery

When friends Jessica Rolph and Rod Morris partnered to launch Lovevery in 2015, the two founders already had massive success stories under their belts.

Jessica previously had a successful exit from organic baby food company Happy Family, which she founded. Rod helped take SaaS utility platform Opower public as part of the company’s leadership team.

Despite their wealth of past experience, Jessica and Rod had plenty to learn when fundraising for Lovevery, a subscription business that puts sustainable, science-backed play kits into the hands of parents. As parents themselves, Jessica and Rod knew their idea had legs when they began working on it — but they still felt “very vulnerable” during the fundraising process, according to Jessica.

“With the success we had in the raises, on the outside they [seemingly] came easily,” Jessica says. “But on the inside, getting to that place where you have momentum is hard.”

As they grew Lovevery, they found fundraising successfully was all about the timing. On an episode of How I Raised It, Jessica and Rod shared the lessons that came from raising $32 million for Lovevery over three funding rounds.

224. SaaS IPOs and a Zoominfo S1 mini teardown

By some estimates, investing in the IPOs of the 75 or so SaaS companies would have netted you 5x in less than 5 years. That’s the kind of math that makes even the world’s best investors drool, and considering the target for most private market investors is 3x, and that do in any liquid security, it makes this all the more interesting.

225. Applying Complexity Theory to Valuation

The last of three articles on corporate valuations and capital structures.

226. Takeaways from Sequoia Capital's Black Swan Memo

Soothsayer Sequoia Capital warned its portfolio companies in a memo—how can startups stay healthy?

227. The Distinction Between Enterprise Companies And Consumer Companies is Blurring

"All models are wrong." George Box, the statistician is supposed to have said. Unfortunately, like he also continued to say, some are useful. Whenever I try to take a step back and think about the broader investing landscape, that remains true.

228. Tech Round Table: The Biggest Challenges in 2019 and Predictions for 2020

For the second year, members of our BIP Capital team came together in at the end of 2019 to discuss the year’s biggest technology and business trends, as well as what opportunities and barriers ahead as we move through 2020. The discussion also included leaders from a number of our portfolio companies so that they could offer their own unique perspectives, especially as they relate to the challenges of growing a successful business.

229. What are Venture Investments and How Do They Work?

Venture capital is a financial instrument that allows you to earn on investments in high-risk technology companies.

230. Smart VCs Look for Potential Monopolies

Understand how VC investors think and evaluate how good your startup idea is for VC investments.

231. Walnut Raises $2.5M Seed To Make Product Demos Easier For the Post-Pandemic World

Seed round is being led by NFX with additional participation from other top SF Angels

232. Egalitarian Investing & Fair Launch 4 All | Launchpool AMA

Been rekt aping into a new token only to watch helplessly as early whales cash out their 100x or 1000x gains? Pre-IDO launchpads may be your solution.

233. Naming Your Startup: 6 Considerations for First Time Founders

Naming your startup can be a tricky and time-consuming process. This article breaks down some tips and stories from VC Partners and CEOs to get you started.

234. Capitalising on Opportunities: The Primary Ways To Finance Your Business

To borrow or not to borrow. That’s a question only you will know the answer to.

235. Democratizing Venture Capital: An Exclusive Interview with Hatu Sheikh CMO of DAO Maker

Interview with Hatu Sheik, the CMO and co-founder of DAO Maker, a platform opening up the venture capital market to retail investors on the blockchain.

236. Monetizing the Curation Economy, Social Communities and Online Learning

3 big startup opportunities for your next venture.

237. Why Startups in Estonia Are Ahead of Ukraine (And How To Catch Up)

In this interview: Venture Partner of Ukrainian VC Genesis Investments shares his opinion on Eastern European the venture landscape and venture opportunities. Originally from the USA, Chris Brown came to the startup world through Eastern Europe. He managed accelerators in Estonia, co-founded a micro fund in Hungary, led IBM Global Entrepreneur Program, and was a part of the core investment team at 500 Startups.

238. How Founders Can Adapt to the New Normal

The ongoing pandemic has impacted not only our lives but also the global economy. COVID-19 will stay with us for months to come and it is unlikely that our world will ever look the same. This is the time to adapt.

239. The Creator Economy of Gaming & New Monetization Models

Unlock 3 market opportunities to help game creators and game players make money, and monetize game tech by solving real problems

240. How to Raise VC Financing for Your Video Game Startup

A complete guide to raising venture capital financing for video game startups of all types - technology, game studios, social companies, and financial companies

241. The New Model For Venture Creation: Inside Roger Dickey's "Untitled Labs" Startup Factory

How do you pitch a business that doesn’t yet have a product, or even a prototype? For serial entrepreneur Roger Dickey, it’s about selling possibility, with an emphasis on his track record of innovation.

242. "The Skills Required To Succeed In Crypto Are Different From Others" - Xinshu Dong of IOSG Ventures

The article discusses investing in blockchain startups and DeFi applications with insights from Xinshu Dong, partner at IOSG Ventures.

243. Free Land Incentives in The Bahamas for Clean Energy

Introduction

244. How To Run a Tight Fundraising Process

Why you have to own your process from end-to-end

245. How To Design a Crazy-Good Tech Startup Pitch That Wows VC’s [101]

We get it.

246. Economics, Crypto, and Really Smart Women

Utsav Jaiswal sits down with Amber Ghaddar, Founder at AllianceBlock, about building the AllianceBlock Protocol, understanding money matters, and getting down t

247. How to Find Minimum Viable Product-Market Fit (PMF)

Focus on the problem, not the solution

248. How to Invest Intelligently in the Podcast Ecosystem

In the world of podcasting, the flywheel is spinning: new technologies including AirPods, connected cars, and smart speakers have made it much easier for consumers to listen to audio content, which in turn creates more revenue and financial opportunity for creators, which further encourages high-quality audio content to flow into the space. There are now over 700K free podcasts available and thousands more launching each week.

249. 4 Ways Startups Entered the Lending Space

In times of social distancing, most people spend more time at home. A short series I can recommend for your next evening on your couch is Bad Banks. In the second season, the investment banker Jana Liekam and her team of trusted accomplices move to Berlin to take over a sustainable robo-advisor. The viewer is pulled into the power struggle between the incumbent Deutsche Global Invest with its fintech incubator in Berlin, and the rivalling robo-advisors fin21, and Jana’s Green Wallet.

250. Venture Report: How to Monetize This Year's Big 3 Market Opportunities

In this 2021 venture report, I break down 3 startup ideas or monetization opportunities, starting with private wealth management and family offices.

251. In Conversation with Stewart Kohl on What He Looks For in an Investment

Stewart Kohl is Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Riverside Company, a global private equity firm based in Cleveland, Ohio with offices across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The Riverside Company has more than $7 billion in assets under management and oversees a global portfolio of more than 80 companies. Prior to joining Riverside in 1993, Kohl served as vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital and COO of the National Cooperative Business Association in Washington, D.C

252. API-as-a-Service is the Next Step in the Software World's Evolution

APIs are the foundational building blocks on which the software world is being built. What will the next wave of API-as-a-service winners look like?

253. The Retreat of Venture Funds and The Emergence of Venture Studios

254. If You Want To Achieve A Goal Show Up Prepared

It is important to realize that we have the ability to manufacture our own fate when we want to. - Eric Haney, Delta Force operator

255. What to Learn from the Power User Curve

The importance of power users

Power users drive some of the most successful companies — people who love their product, are highly engaged, and contribute a ton of value to the network. In ecommerce marketplaces it’s power sellers, in ridesharing platforms it’s power riders, and in social networks it’s influencers.

256. Meet the World Bank Exec Turned Startup Founder Who Raised $3 Million for Her Vietnamese Coffee…

While Debbie Wei Mullin was fundraising for her specialty Asian beverage company, Copper Cow Coffee, she encountered frequent skepticism about its appeal: “it’s a niche product.”

257. Will 2022 be the Year of the Bear and Other Crypto Investment Themes for the Year

Downmarket got you down and concerned about the future of #blockchain Read our TL;DR summary of Messari and Ryan Selkis' Crypto Theses for 2022.

258. An Open Letter from an Investor to Aspiring Data-Scientists and Entrepreneurs

What is it to venture, to accomplish?

259. Building a Bulletproof Pitch: Interview With Victor Larionov

While pitching investors might sound straightforward, there are some underlying technicalities most people fail to understand. Here's an explanation of them.

260. How to Build a Company in Highly Regulated Marketplaces: 8 Things to Consider

What can founders / operators do when it comes to navigating the complexities that come with the territory in regulated industries? Here are some opportunities.

261. How to Get Startup Ideas Using 3 Frameworks

Note: This article is part of my resource newsletters↗️ where I share insights on building things in tech. Join me :)‍

262. State of The Creator Economy: SignalFire’s Market Map and Analysis

By Yuanling Yuan, edited by Josh Constine

263. Here's Why We Invested in Minerva — The Internet’s Universal Process Sharing Platform

Once you use it, you’ll wonder how you lived without it…

264. Unbundling Education: Monetizing the $90 billion E-Learning Industry

People don’t want a university degree. They “hire” universities to achieve an outcome or desire.

265. The 449-Page Antitrust Report on Big Tech Monopolies: Key Takeways

On October 6th 2020, the House lawmakers released a 449-page report investigating how Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google managed to turn from “scrappy” start-ups into “the kinds of monopolies we saw last in the era of oil barons and railroad tycoons”. This comparison is not misleading since data is referred to as the new oil.

266. How to Fix Entrepreneurship in Europe

I Studied Entrepreneurship in 4 Countries. Here's How To Fix it in Europe.

267. Will GameFi Make it from N00b to Boss Mode - Blockchain Gaming Part 1

The blockchain gaming industry is about to start a boss fight with Web2 gaming. What will it take to level up and enter the mass market?

268. Toilet Paper Mania Leaks Supply Chain Opportunity: What Will Venture Do?

W.W.V.D? Even before the pandemic hit, global supply chains contained an estimated $176 billion of inefficiencies.

269. 3 Ways to Monetize B2C Marketplaces, On-Demand Economy and Employee Motivation

Note: This article is part of my resource newsletters↗️ where I share insights on building things in tech. Join me :)‍

270. Exploring Different Perspectives on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

This is a written recap of a discussion organized by Dominicans on Wall Street, a non-profit organization, between legal experts, venture capitalists, and government officials. The author has no vested interest in any of the projects mentioned and does not offer investment advice.

271. How to Deliver a Mind-Blowing Startup Pitch to an Investor

Did you know that running out of capital means the end of the road for around 29% of startups?

272. The Ultimate Startup Guide to Raising Seed Funding

Seed funding is the earliest form of capital a startup will raise. It is a startup's earliest funding stage. Learn more about seed funding and its stages.

273. Understanding Signal Versus Noise in Tech Investments and How to Leverage it [An Analysis]

I have previously written about the investment philosophy of my friend Jinjian Zhang of Trustbridge Partners. A few months ago, Jinjian has founded his own venture capital fund, Vitalbridge Partners based in Shanghai, China. In a recent talk, Jinjian dived deeper into his “Noise vs Signal” investment philosophy.

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