The Importance of Startup Financials

The Importance of Startup Financials

Time and time again, I see pitches and information packets about startup investment opportunities with a glaring weakness – the lack of viable, credible and detailed financial information. I don’t get it.  With innovations, technologies and company concepts into which...
What “No” Sounds Like

What “No” Sounds Like

Talking to another seed investor recently, we both got something of a chuckle when discussing a startup that had approached each of us separately.  The chuckle was all about this team’s deaf ear to what was really being said to them.  The word “No” comes out in a...
Mastery and The Pitch

Mastery and The Pitch

What makes for a successful pitch?  Is it the same for pitching to investors, to potential customers, to future employees, to the local Rotary, and on and on…What makes for success in any endeavor?  We’ve measured many aspects of funding success – when startups...
Chasing Capital Redux

Chasing Capital Redux

Many thanks to those who requested the written version of last week’s audio blog…here it is: Chasing Capital Redux I originally wrote this Blog months ago – and never published it.  I wrote it before we knew what would happen with vaccine development; and...