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6 Reasons Why Startups Fail

Jul 10, 2024

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9 min read

6 Reasons Why Startups Fail

Takeaways from HBS entrepreneurship professor Tom Eisenmann's research

What Factors Drive Angel Investment Decisions?

Jul 3, 2024

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8 min read

What Factors Drive Angel Investment Decisions?

Findings from my recent interviews with 9 local angel investors

Why Do Angels Hate Due Diligence?

Jun 26, 2024

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8 min read

Why Do Angels Hate Due Diligence?

Because it punches fun in the face

What do you Hate?

Jun 19, 2024

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7 min read

What do you Hate?

A powerful question for understanding founder motivation

Revenue vs ARR

Jun 12, 2024

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7 min read

Revenue vs ARR

Why angel investors need to understand the difference

Market Creation

Jun 5, 2024

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7 min read

Market Creation

Lesson learned from passing on Shopify: 1 diligence question to supercharge market analysis

(Dis)respect

May 29, 2024

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6 min read

(Dis)respect

3 questions to identify a disrespectful diligence process

Diligence Gold

May 22, 2024

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8 min read

Diligence Gold

4 things we look for in a founder interview

KISS

May 15, 2024

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8 min read

KISS

The 1st lesson we learned after writing 20 seed-stage diligence reports in a month

Level Up

May 8, 2024

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3 min read

Level Up

1 reason why the Angel Ops e-book is worth your time

Simple, Not Easy

May 1, 2024

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8 min read

Simple, Not Easy

Takeaways from Chris Curran after a 32-year tech career

24Q1 Market Snapshot📸

Apr 24, 2024

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8 min read

24Q1 Market Snapshot📸

Seed-stage highlights from the Q1 2024 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor

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