Building a startup is hard.

Figuring out fundraising and venture capital shouldn’t get in your way.

Chris Neumann 8/26/26 Chris Neumann 8/26/26

Building in Public: Founders Day Edition

Over the past year, we rebuilt Founders Day from the ground up, added a bunch of new features and unleashed version 3.0 to the world. How did it go?

Chris Neumann 8/13/25 Chris Neumann 8/13/25

Give Your Customers What They Want

What can this recent history of fast food teach us about AI? It turns out, a lot.

Chris Neumann 11/20/24 Chris Neumann 11/20/24

The Life and Death of Project Stag

There is a startup I cofounded that almost no one knows about. This is the story of Project Stag.

Chris Neumann 5/15/24 Chris Neumann 5/15/24

How Glean Raised a $1M Pre-Seed Round

How data analytics startup Glean raised a $1M pre-seed round…in 2012.

Chris Neumann 1/17/24 Chris Neumann 1/17/24

This Critical Lesson in MySpace's Failure is Still Relevant Today

I had a front-row seat for the rise and fall of MySpace. This critical mistake that MySpace made is still relevant to founders today.

Chris Neumann 6/21/23 Chris Neumann 6/21/23

The Moment of Truth

It was 2012. My cofounder and I were huddled around a laptop pitching Brad Feld, the "final boss" in our quest to secure a term sheet from Foundry Group.

Chris Neumann 5/18/22 Chris Neumann 5/18/22

The Genius of Creative Destruction Lab

If you’re a founder in Canada — or are involved in the Canadian tech scene in any way — then you’re familiar with the letters CDL. The Creative Destruction Lab helped create more than $19 Billion in equity value. And it's completely changed the Canadian tech landscape.

Chris Neumann 4/27/22 Chris Neumann 4/27/22

Wow, Did My Pitch Deck Suck

Long before I was a VC, I cofounded DataHero, the world’s first cloud BI company. I recently came across one of our old fundraising decks and boy, did it suck! Let’s look at all the mistakes we made in that deck.