For entrepreneurs forming their ventures and building their team.
Being a founder is hard. Being a solo founder is even harder. Being a solo non-technical founder–forget about it. Jeff Bezos may disagree, but there aren’t many Jeff Bezos in the world. Solo founders often believe they are the only ones who can pull off their vision. While...
In 2001, Mailchimp sprouted as a humble side project to an otherwise floundering design agency. In running their agency, Ben Chestnut and Dan Kurzius saw clients struggle to navigate email marketing. To toss them a lifeline, the duo created a simple email marketing tool–called "Mailchimp." Mailchimp's appeal surged, luring...
In this post, Jed Ng, from Angel School discusses the benefits of angel investing through syndicates and the process of building your network for syndicates. You can find the original post here. Let's hear what Jed has to say. Ready to invest in a startup? First things first -- how...
Growing a venture-backed startup is difficult–even if you started on the right foot by initially incorporating as a Delaware C-Corp. Unfortunately, this difficulty isn’t alleviated for many administrative tasks, such as filing annual reports and paying Delaware franchise taxes. In fact, around this time of the year, we...
Lessons in corporate governance come quickly.
Even with capital markets in a state of decline, capital continues to flow into venture capital. Pitchbook data indicates that U.S.-based VCs have $290B in dry powder and have raised a record amount in the first quarter of 2022. Aside from the potential for outside returns (e.g....
