Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Yesterday I wrote a post about The Silent Benefits of PR in which I pointed out that most young companies I encounter don’t fully grasp the benefits of PR because they are less measurable than product milestones or customer acquisition analyses (like CAC/LTV). When to start PR? It’s a continual process.

PR 319

PR Venture Capital Hiring Seed Capital 319

View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. Third, repeat founders are likely to execute at a much higher level early on. Their early hires are probably much stronger too, which allows for better execution as well.

Founder 256

Founder Agile Cofounder Seed Capital 256

Rob Go

MAY 14, 2012

Sure, there is more availability of seed capital in the past, although if you watch carefully, you will notice that most of the elite seed funds have slowed down their pace considerably over the last 12 months. Hiring is ridiculously tough, and pools of talent and diffused across many companies.

Technical Review 74

Technical Review Seed Capital Early Stage PR 74

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. This is true for early stage funding as well as venture capital funding. One recipe for failure (business failure and capital raising failure) is building a lopsided team weighted to one function of the business.

Part-Time VPE 79

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Cofounder CTO Hire 79