View from Seed
OCTOBER 24, 2019
The reality is that if a founder raised every one of these rounds, and lead investors always got their “target” ownership, the level of dilution would be ridiculous. This means being really conservative with your cash burn early on until you have clearly found product/market fit. Experienced founders: B2B.
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Especially in the age of zoom pitching, founders can create a fairly wide top of the funnel, and talk to a large number of investors to find a good match for their round. These forces result in most early stage rounds being composed of investors that are already hanging around the hoop.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2018
The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. I always tell founders … “An investors job is to deploy capital and make a return. To be clear?—?your your list never stays static. Why 8–10 and not just 3–4?
The Startup Toolkit
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Regarding structure, the first deal is a rolling round with committed lead investors. If you over-perform, then you would have raised on better terms in the free market. At this point I’m leaning toward the first deal, but not by a huge amount since there’s some risk to completing the round in both cases.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.
Hunter Walker
APRIL 20, 2018
Like we do at the seed stage, USV almost always plays the role of “ lead investor.” ” And later: “The truth about these situations is a few seed investors will massively over deliver and the rest will massively disappoint.” But it often is not.”
The Startup Toolkit
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Regarding structure, the first deal is a rolling round with committed lead investors. If you over-perform, then you would have raised on better terms in the free market. At this point I’m leaning toward the first deal, but not by a huge amount since there’s some risk to completing the round in both cases.
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