Finance: Fundraising & VC
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How Tiny Seed makes startup investing work without billion-dollar exits
Startups For the Rest of Us
January 14, 2025
Fundraising & VC
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Business models
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- Top-quartile VC funds returned just 2x over a decade
- Low entry valuations let 40x returns happen at $50-100M exits
- High valuations close off founder optionality to sell for less
How Altos Ventures builds generational companies through patient investing
EO
January 8, 2025
Fundraising & VC
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Long-term planning
6
Case studies
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- Power law and compounding drive venture returns in years 10–20, not years 1–3
- Partner with hedgehog founders who obsess over one problem with flexible conviction
- VCs add value through pattern recognition and stewardship, not valuation speed
From idea to £300K raised in six weeks with a mission-driven startup
KeyPersonOfInfluence
November 28, 2024
Fundraising & VC
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Niche selection
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Prospecting & outreach
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- Sell first, build later replaced slow product-first instincts.
- Social mission secured £300K from angels in six weeks.
- Billions redirected from fossil-fuel banks via enterprise clients.
How venture secondaries are solving the VC liquidity crisis
Business Breakdowns
November 27, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Exit strategy
7
Business models
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- VC funds expire before their companies do — secondaries fill the gap
- Discount-first pricing is a fallacy; intrinsic value is what matters
- Venture sponsor-to-sponsor deals could become a massive liquidity market
Founder advice on investors, scaling, and knowing when to let go
How I Built This with Guy Raz
October 31, 2024
Fundraising & VC
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Delegation
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Long-term planning
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- Why picking the wrong early investor can sink your business
- Niche brands must plan expansion before they need it
- Delegating roles you can do is how founders unlock growth
Key startup terminology every founder needs to know
Y Combinator
October 23, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Product-market fit
7
Unit economics
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- MVP must be useful — a broken product is not viable
- SAFEs have fewer strings than convertible notes; read both carefully
- TAM is a thought experiment, not a ceiling — great products grow it
Release AI funding based on traction, not enthusiasm
Lean Startup Co.
September 20, 2024
Fundraising & VC
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AI strategy & adoption
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- Fund AI initiatives incrementally — only release more when traction justifies it
- Scarce capacity means enthusiasm alone can't drive resource allocation
- Data, patience, and empathy beat big upfront budgets
Nine lessons from investing in 170+ B2B SaaS companies
Startups For the Rest of Us
September 3, 2024
Bootstrapping
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Niche selection
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Fundraising & VC
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- 43% of exited or shut-down Tiny Seed founders are now millionaires
- Vertical and orthogonal SaaS grows faster with less churn than horizontal
- Ruined cap tables have blocked many fundable companies from raising
What seed and Series A investors actually look for
EO
September 3, 2024
Fundraising & VC
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Business models
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- Seed is a team and a dream; Series A demands real traction
- Early hiring mistakes are recoverable — repeated ones aren't
- Superior products, not activism, drive climate adoption
How a 17-year-old raised $3.15 million to build a mountain bike park
Brett Malinowski
August 30, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Prospecting & outreach
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Case studies
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- Cold-messaging 550 LinkedIn investors as a teenager actually works.
- Why Texas's small riding scene caps the park's revenue ceiling.
- The blueprint for building a Whistler-level bike park in the US.
Funding, press, and bias: advice for early-stage founders
How I Built This with Guy Raz
August 29, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
PR & media
8
Business models
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- Why non-strategic investors can still be the right move
- Affiliate programs and cold outreach beat a PR budget
- Less than 2% of funding goes to women — use it as fuel
Gymdesk's $32.5M raise, hiring trends, and what actually moves the needle
Startups For the Rest of Us
August 20, 2024
Fundraising & VC
9
Long-term planning
7
Growth hacking
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- Vertical SaaS bootstrappers can raise growth PE at huge valuations
- Return-to-office mandates are giving bootstrappers a real hiring edge
- Doubling down on what works beats chasing the next shiny channel
What 430 investments taught me about backing great founders
EO
August 13, 2024
Fundraising & VC
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Hiring & recruitment
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Pitching investors
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- Gut feeling is pattern recognition built through volume, not innate talent.
- Back the person first — a great team pivots a bad idea, a weak team loses.
- Junior VCs who act entitled are damaging the industry's reputation.
Smart people's financial blind spots and how to fix them
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Fundraising & VC
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Hiring & recruitment
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Productivity & habits
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- Why being smart makes you worse at asking financial questions
- College debt rule: never borrow more than your first-year salary
- Fiduciary vs. suitable — most advisers aren't required to act in your interest
Investing in people: the Liberman brothers' bet on founders themselves
Silicon Valley Girl
May 21, 2024
Fundraising & VC
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Business models
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- Founders with a prior exit are 6.5x more likely to build a unicorn.
- Buy a stake in the person, not the company — across all future ventures.
- 60% growth is success; 2.4x year-over-year makes you superhuman.