What happens when AI slop finds its way into emails and text messages you send your coworkers, clients and friends?

There’s a good chance many people you interact with these days are aware of when and how often you open their emails. Time to stop making excuses for why you took so long to respond.

Founder hubris can be deadly for startups. Here's how to identify it early and avoid its consequences.

When corresponding over email, it’s essential that you get to the point. Here are 5 common mistakes founders make when interacting over email.

In the era of rage bait, showing deference, respect and etiquette in your interactions can make you stick out amongst a crowd.

Customer-facing roles are often thankless endeavors, but they’re essential to a startup’s success. Make sure to thank the people on the front line.

There’s one aspect of being an investor that fills me with shame. Despite my best efforts, chances are I have absolutely no idea who you are.

If you successfully fundraise from Silicon Valley VCs, be careful about how you tell the story. You could end up accidentally burning bridges.

One simple filter busy people use trips up many founders: when I tell you how to get my help, do you listen?

A trusted group of peers is one of the most valuable resources a founder can have, but there’s one area where talking to founders can steer you wrong: your fundraising pitch.

Here are 5 steps to ensuring that you get the most out of mentorship without being steamrolled by an overzealous mentor.

What makes an effective fundraising email and how do you create a request-for-introduction or a cold outreach email?

No aspect of Silicon Valley etiquette is more jarring to newly-arrived founders than the fact that it is culturally acceptable to not reply to emails.

To increase fundraising success with generalist VCs, hard tech founders must show that your startup fits the traditional VC model. Here's how.

Connecting on LinkedIn can be the easiest way to open a direct line of communication with a potential investor. But you have to do it right.

Pitching an investor at a party is very different from pitching in an office, a coffee shop or over Zoom. Here are 6 tips for pitching a VC at a party.

Here are 5 misleading metrics that have no place in your fundraising deck.

Fundraising is hard enough before we add power dynamics and egos to the mix. So let’s try to be better as investors.

How often do you meet someone new and within 10 seconds get the feeling that they’re a transactional person?

The relationship between a founder and an investor can last 10 years or more. Just like any long-term relationship, you need to put in effort to stay aligned.