Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pre-seed is the first outside investment entrepreneurs receive into their business after bootstapping and F&F (family and friends). Chris Corbishley, an Investor at Forward Partners, a UK VC fund, has good words of advice on structuring and negotiating those early investments. (link). Read that along with their pre-seed Term Sheet . …
Today I invite you to read this post by Courtney Rubin, How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight, The untold story of how Homepolish’s extremely Instagrammable house of cards came tumbling down. There are a lot a cautionary red flags for you VCs and investors, and as …
For the first time this summer in Silicon Valley and beyond I’ve seen people looking hard at what I call “the ugly rhino truth” of tech industry’s superstars, the $1 Bn+ “unicorn” companies and even the “decacorns”($10 Bn+). The academic world took the lead at it Those hyper valuations appear …
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