Your pitch deck isn’t an application for financial aid
By Joseph Flaherty, Director of Content & Community If you’re pitching investors, one of the easiest ways to improve your deck is swapping out blank…
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The Warning Label That Should Come With Venture Capital
We’ll be sending these to the founders of our new portfolio companies to emphasize that capital raised is a vanity metric and comes with many…
The Mythical Million Dollar Run Rate – Hacker Noon
People obsess about college rankings, baseball stats, and other forms of numerology out of a natural human desire to simplify and bring order to their…
Five Types of Distributed Teams – Hacker Noon
By Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner Distributed teams went from being deal killers to de rigueur seemingly overnight in Silicon Valley. Bill Gurley has predicted that…
The “Messy Middle” of Big Companies – Hacker Noon
By Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner I recently had the opportunity to interview Scott Belsky about his new book, The Messy Middle. It’s an outstanding handbook…
The “Get Rich Slow” Exit Strategy – Hacker Noon
Joseph Flaherty, Director of Content & Community In the startup world there are two dominant exit strategies: Build and sell your company for millions, or,…
Watches, Mattresses, and “Meh” Multiples – Hacker Noon
By Joseph Flaherty On Friday, the Movado Group announced its acquisition of LA-based startup watch manufacturer MVMT for $100M, with an additional $100M in earnout…
Three Lessons Learned From Roblox’s $2.4B Valuation
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Five Quick Thoughts on Microsoft + Github – Hacker Noon
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