I recently wrote a post about the negative impact of the Casper IPO on investor sentiment in the Direct-To-Consumer (“DTC”) space. Anytime a company in a sector goes public at a valuation that is less …
Learning From the Casper IPO – Investor Sentiment Shifts Fast
In the world of startups and venture capital, industries move in and out of favor very fast. It doesn’t take much for an industry that’s been attracting huge amounts of investor attention and capital …
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Get Further Down the Product-Market Fit Path Before You Fundraise
I had two meetings last week with first-time founders, each building a company in an industry where they had no real experience, pre-product, asking for advice about raising a round of angel funding. …
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The WeWork IPO – A Fascinating Look At Hype, Greed and The Popping of a Unicorn Bubble
You should be paying attention to the story of the collapsing WeWork IPO. It's a fascinating look at all that can go wrong when a company that is overhyped and overvalued is exposed before they can …
Don’t Start Building Your Pitch Deck By Creating Slides
I was reviewing a Series A fundraising deck with a founder yesterday. He had sent it to me in advance so that I could prepare, and as I had flipped through it, I realized the whole deck fell flat. It …
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A Few Thoughts on Fundraising Strategy
Yesterday I was able to spend the morning with 20 student led teams in a summer accelerator at the Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship at UMass Amherst. I love spending time with student …
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