073. Investors Are Not Your Customers feat. Kat Weaver
You can get investment from someone who is not an actual user of it. Founders need to be educators.
March 29, 2023
The VC Minute - Tag: Startup Strategy
Learn how to position your startup, plan your go-to-market, and grow with a solid strategy.
072. Storytelling feat. Kat Weaver
An investor buys into YOU before what you do. Lead with your story to build credibility showcase your qualifications.
March 28, 2023
062. Sacred Cows
What is the thing that you are so desperately clinging to? Is it relevant? And is it going to help your business get through these next few turbulent weeks and then through the next trying months? Find those sacred cows and banish them.
March 14, 2023
061. Acknowledge Your Reality
Regardless of your situation, the startup world fundamentally changed on Friday. I have two pieces of advice for you. The first is: acknowledge your reality.
“This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” – James Stockdale
Whatever your reality is, own it.
March 13, 2023
Season 1 Compilation, Part 2
VC Minute is quick advice to help startup founders fundraise better. This is Part 2 of the Season 1 complication, covering Episodes 26-50.
August 18, 2022
Season 1 Compilation, Part 1
VC Minute is quick advice to help startup founders fundraise better. This is Part 1 of the Season 1 complication, covering Episodes 1-25.
August 17, 2022
050. VC Validation
If you’re struggling to raise venture capital, take heart. It does not invalidate your business. If you truly want to build this business, then you must focus on creating value for your customers. That is what matters.
August 12, 2022
047. Pausing the Treadmill
What happens when you miss your milestones? Can you pause the VC Treadmill? Of course. Here’s how one company did it.
August 9, 2022
046. Sell The Vision
My friend Eric Marcoullier, multiple-exit founder, coaches startup CEOs now, has a great post that I riff on today: A CEO Has Three Responsibilities. I’d argue the CEO has only one.
August 8, 2022
018. Runway
When you set out to raise a round of capital, you’ll get asked about your runway. This is important because fundraising is a waste of your time. 😁
June 29, 2022
017. Here, There, Capital
Founders part of your job in a pitch is to convince potential investors that you will get to the next level on the treadmill. And to do that, you need to three things: Here, There and Capital.
June 28, 2022
016. VC Treadmill
Raising venture capital is a treadmill. One that only gets faster and only gets steeper.
June 27, 2022
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