by wendy | May 6, 2021 | Advice & Insights, Ideation, Startups, WKI Design Frameworks
As founders start out on their journey, there’s a lot of balls to juggle for sure. Customers, product, competitive differentiator, access to capital, and the list continues. An important one that doesn’t get talked about enough is the Path to Market – how will...
by wendy | Apr 27, 2021 | Ideation, Startups, WKI Design Frameworks
When I reflect back to my tech startup days when we were on the napkin and starting out, I am reminded (and sometimes a little haunted LOL) by our inability to articulate the business problem we were proposing to solve. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the...
by jhanak | Apr 14, 2021 | Advice & Insights, Funding, Podcast, Startups
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...
by jhanak | Mar 22, 2021 | Funding, Podcast, Startups
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...
by jhanak | Feb 25, 2021 | Funding, Podcast, Startups
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...
