Hint: It doesn’t mean we’re ready to invest as soon you find that lead You pitch to an investor — an individual, an angel group, or a VC fund — ...

Why the exit is the only thing that matters to investors and how to prepare for it from the start At a recent gathering of startup founders, I ...

Unlike equity investments, debt has to be repaid on a fixed schedule For startup founders, the offer is tempting for — take a $1M loan now to ...

Running out of cash is a result, not a cause, of most startup failures Yet another startup that I invested in closed its doors last week, ...

In a used record shop in Nottingham in January I find a 1970 B.B. King LP with a picture of a guitar made from a watermelon on the cover. It’s £8, and ...

What is this game…? Well, I’m still trying to wrap my head around that as I’m sitting here and trying to collect my thoughts, having just played Mama’s ...

Image Credit: iStock.com/sedmakGender is a charged topic in the Church today. Some might say that gender differences are fixed and unchanging as God ...

If you’re a startup founder, find another way to protect your important secrets When running a business was my full-time job, I signed a ...

Avoid comparing your startup’s valuation to others if you want to keep your sanity You’re raising $3M on a $18M valuation (or at least trying ...

Christoph Raethke has been part of the European startup and angel ecosystem since the late 1990s. As the host of the Angels of Deutschland podcast, he has ...