Put the engineers in trade show booths and make them help with support calls The conventional wisdom is that developers’ time is too valuable ...

Why venture investors avoid service businesses and what to do about it Most small businesses are service businesses. Doctors and lawyers, ...

Focus on building products and serving customers instead of obsessing over raises and valuations At a recent startup gathering, while I was ...

Focus on 1 opportunity instead of trying to do 10 things As an early-stage investor, I’m often pitched by startups offering platform ...

SPVs aggregate many small investors into a single investment to simplify startup cap tables You’re raising a million dollar pre-seed round and ...

A lot longer than you expect. And probably longer than can afford. A truism of the startup world is that there are no startup failures, only ...

Every year at Cartoon Movie, producers, investors, broadcasters, and distributors gather in Bordeaux, France, at the heart of the animation-friendly ...

Venture investors require preferred stock instead of common shares Imagine you raised $2M in your startup at a $20M valuation. Investors ...

Audrey Vandagriff was all over the base paths. ...

When it comes to marketing, it's hard to know which tactics to invest in. If you want to reach a wider audience, improve your search engine ...