If you want money wired this year, the decision point is sooner than you think
the work that needs to happen before your first investor conversation
network effects of fundraising, and how you're always one connection away
One offer is a decision you have to make. Five offers is a decision you get to make.
the honest math on relationship-sourced vs. cold outbound meetings, from our own numbers
pulling together our conversations across VC, family funds, and private equity for everything we're seeing in the market going into H2
managing expectations, next steps, and the psychological toll of a deal falling through at the finish line
debunking capital raising myths after hundreds of investor conversations over the last few months
what a stalled raise is telling investors, and how to flip the story
What that actually means for founders who are vs who aren't building AI companies.
Why most founders make their first sales hire before they have anything for that person to execute on.
decoding what VC feedback really means