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.

Each week, I get emails from founder expressing frustration about fundraising. My advice? Get over it.

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

Venture capital is not broken. But it is evolving.

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.

Why is ownership percentage such a big deal to VCs?

If an investor knows more about your competition than you do, that’s a problem.

Here are the steps that occur between signing a VC term sheet and the money being deposited into your startup’s bank account.

The stereotype that local investors don’t lead rounds but "foreign investors" do exists all over the world. But is it true?

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.

Is summer really a bad time to fundraise? And if so, why?

Founders and VCs both want valuation comparisons when fundraising. But the truth is, there is no such thing as accurate pre-seed valuation data.

There’s plenty of debate around whether or not founders should talk to associates at VC firms. But there’s another, more subtle fundraising dynamic at play that most founders are completely unaware of: the dynamic between partners.

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

Here are 5 tips for starting your fundraising process on the right foot and signalling to investors that you’re in control of the timeline.

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

As an early-stage investor, velocity is the #1 thing I’m trying to measure when I meet with founders.

Plenty of posts have been written about how investors diligence startup founders, but how can founders diligence VCs?