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Do you need a lead investor in your seed round?
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One question that seed investors love to ask is if you have a lead investor in your seed round. I’ve written before about what every entrepreneur needs to clarify when answering this question. But once you figure out why an investor is asking, tactically...
Tips on Formation and Fundraising
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This hour-long episode of the Startup School Radio podcast is focused entirely on the basics of company formation and fundraising. Our host Aaron Harris was joined by three of his fellow Y Combinator partners, YC's CFO Kirsty Nathoo and YC's general...
Raising Startup Funds? Here’s Food For Thought
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Occasionally we invite clients to discuss issues of importance to those who work with freelancers on Elance-oDesk. Here are some additional thoughts from Nicholas Wright. He frequently hires freelancers and is one of the founders of AppInstruct, an online...
Charting A Path From Seed To A Competitive Series A Round
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Editor’s note: Nnamdi Okike is a co-founder and General Partner at 645 Ventures, a seed to Series A stage venture capital firm that applies a data-intensive approach to deal sourcing and value creation. Over the past five years, there has been roughly...
Why investors need to practice lean startup principles too
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GUEST POST Above: Angel investor. Image Credit: Shutterstock There has been an increase in startup quality due to the now-legendary improvements in process espoused by Steve Blank, Alex Osterwalder, and their lean startup principles. Yet legions...

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Introducing Raise Millions

I’m biased here, but our team at Hustle Fund has published the most comprehensive guide on startup fundraising to help first-time software founders (IMO). And now you can get it here for free. Why we wrote the book Fundraising used to be reserved...
I’m becoming a cartoonist…with AI

Another year! Last year was an incredible year for artificial intelligence (AI). If the rise of the internet was an inflection point, the rise of artificial intelligence (in my opinion) is an even more massive one. I think what I’m most excited about...
I’m (still) not crushing it

A decade ago, I wrote a blog post about how I was not crushing it with my startup LaunchBit. In that post, I added this graph: It looked good — up and to the right (though no labeled axes publicly disclosed). But, on a day-to-day basis, the graph looked...
The challenges of growth: where startups struggle and how to fix them

Although I invest in a lot of pre-revenue startups, a stage where I see most companies get stuck is the pre-series A stage. There are two primary ways that companies tend to get stuck. A startup: Has product-market fit but is too chaotic in trying to...
What Does the Near Future of Artificial Intelligence Look Like and What Should I Build?

If you haven’t already read Packy McCormick’s blog post this morning on Attention is All You Need, I highly recommend it. He always writes with incredible insight, but today’s post is especially important as we think about technology in the next several...

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Dear elizy: How should I split equity with my... - Bringing transparency to seed investing...

Dear elizy: How should I split equity with my co-founders? And how will that affect raising a seed round? Dear elizy: I started a company in school with two co-founders. Let’s call them Ada and Bob......
Fundraising pitches are not actually pitches – Elizabeth Yin

The startup industry should stop using the word “pitch.” It's 50% storytelling and 50% power struggle.