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Startups Weekly: Mixed messages from venture capital
Techcrunch
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Final day to submit your speaker application and shape the next wave of startups at TechCrunch All Stage
Techcrunch
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Integrations as Competitive Advantage
Tomasz Tunguz
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SaaStr on 20VC: “What’s Really Happening in Venture Today: Hard Truths on AI Investing, Fund Sizes, and Why “Seed is for Suckers”
SaaStr
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10 Unforced Errors Founders Make in the VC Fundraising Process
SaaStr
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3 Ways AI Is Transforming Venture Capital Investment
Crunchbase
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Eye On AI: Startups See More And Bigger Deals
Crunchbase
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Figma files for IPO after failed $20 billion Adobe takeover
Fast Co - Design
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Innovobot unveils “refreshed” deep tech VC fund under Neha Khera’s leadership
BetaKit
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New early-stage VC fund Trillick Ventures aims to bring funding to “underrepresented” Manitoba
BetaKit
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Performance anxiety and access to capital top of mind for Canadian VCs
BetaKit
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CVCA calls for temporary capital gains reduction, national investment tax credit in pitch to federal parties
BetaKit
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UK-based Osney Capital eyes Canadian cybersecurity startups with 50-million-pound first fund
BetaKit
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The Impact of Tariffs on Series As
Tomasz Tunguz
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Healthtech startup Vopemed lands $2.29-million pre-seed funding for AI-powered surgery visuals
BetaKit
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Kensington acquires One9 to establish a defence tech VC platform
BetaKit
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Canadian foodtech has a scale-up problem
BetaKit
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Movement51 appoints former DMZ leader Emily Smiley as executive director
BetaKit
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Startups and SMBs Want Better Banking so Mercury Raised Another $300 Million to Provide It to Them
Homebrew
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US deep tech VC Celesta Capital adds BDC alum Charles Lespérance as Canadian partner
BetaKit
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Turning $5M Into $100M
Collaborative Fund
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CEOs of Clio and StackAdapt, VC leaders from OMERS and Panache among headliners at CIX Summit 2025
BetaKit
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TheSkimm Lands In Ziff Davis Inbox
Homebrew
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Men Spend More Time with TV than with People, Founder Gives Away Half His Wealth to Progressive Causes, a VC Thinks the LLMs are Going to Try and Eat SaaS, & the AI Prompts That Saved a Life [link blog]
Hunter Walk
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Valuation Policies Are A Mess
Seth Levine
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Vertu Capital promotes principal and “employee number two” Eric Kafka to partner
BetaKit
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Québec’s dismal seed-stage performance could spell trouble for province’s startup pipeline
BetaKit
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When Software Eats the World, Vulnerable Populations – Like Kids – Can Get Exposed to Venture Risk Without Knowing It
Hunter Walk
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Chapter One Summer Internship Job Posting! 🚀
Jeff Morris Jr.
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Shield AI Has Created the Most Advanced Autonomous Pilot and Just Raised $240 Million to Span the Globe
Homebrew
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After Investing $100 Million Into New VC Firms, Here’s What I Look For: Traditional But Better, or Different & Excellent.
Hunter Walk
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Exceptional Startups Are Needles in a Haystack. So the Best VCs Build Needle Magnets.
Hunter Walk
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Simple Advice for Junior Folks in Venture Capital: Don’t Be a Generalist. Do One Thing Really Well for your GP and One Thing Really Well for Founders.
Hunter Walk
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Elon Musk, Welfare Queen
Scott Galloway
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The Future of Venture
Seth Levine
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Why Is Jensen Huang $120 Billion Richer Than You?
Evan Armstrong
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Ranger: Writing Code Is Changing So QA Needs to Change Too.
Homebrew
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God Is in the Bubbles
Evan Armstrong
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Take Something Away
Collaborative Fund
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Welcome to the Era of the Gritty Startup
Evan Armstrong
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2000+ angel investors and growing!
Elizabeth Yin
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Data on how we invest at Hustle Fund
Elizabeth Yin
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Why the Future of Space Starts in LA
Mark Suster
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Clarity Pediatrics Raises $10m for Chronic Condition Care, Starting with ADHD
Homebrew
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How Poker Impacts Being a VC
Pratyush Buddiga
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Endings and Beginnings
Seth Levine
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The VC Funding Party Is Over
Wired
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Empire AI
Fred Wilson
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Read Write Own
Fred Wilson
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What Will Happen In 2024
Fred Wilson
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What Happened In 2023
Fred Wilson
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American Enterprise is In Danger from Recent Court Ruling
Seth Levine
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Open Office Hours at NYC Tech Week
Fred Wilson
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With Ello, AI Becomes a Personalized Reading Coach for Kids
Homebrew
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How Investors Kill Companies
Eric Jorgenson
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Good for Founders, Bad For Investors
Eric Jorgenson
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SVB and The Tyranny of the Commons
Seth Levine
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Finch Raises $40 Million Series B To Connect HR Systems Via API and Create the Single Source of Truth
Homebrew
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Venture Capital Red Flag Checklist
Bill Gurley
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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
Mark Suster
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Techstars Foundation and EforAll
Seth Levine
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Startup Boards Second Edition
Seth Levine
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Investors Think They’re More Impactful Than They Actually Are
Seth Levine
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IRR is a vanity metric
Seth Levine
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Money in the Bank vs Burn
Seth Levine
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Density & the Future of Real Estate
Mark Suster
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Building and Compensating Your Board
Seth Levine
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How Crypto Projects Like Loot are Rewriting the Playbook for Building Communities
Means of Creation
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Downsides of a white hot economy
Seth Levine
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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit
Mark Suster
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Problem vs Opportunity First Approach
Brian Balfour
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Pledge 1% – Boardroom Allies
Seth Levine
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Calling Financial Innovators
Seth Levine
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No taxes, no algorithms: Why creators deserve websites
Josh Constine
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What Mistakes Do VCs Make When Fundraising?
Mark Suster
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Screendoor opens to accelerate diversity within VC and tech
Satya Patel
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The Power of Giving Away Power
Seth Levine
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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem
Bill Gurley
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You Need More Nietzsche in Your Life
Seth Levine
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Supporting Small Businesses – A Political Perspective
Seth Levine
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Older Entrepreneurs Leading the Way
Seth Levine
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Some Great New Builder Events This Week
Seth Levine
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Making a Better World – Uncharted’s Economic Equality Initiative
Seth Levine
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Fortune: Tech entrepreneurs grab the headlines, but COVID relief should target grass-roots small businesses
Seth Levine
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More New Builders Events! Tattered Cover Bookstore (and more!)
Seth Levine
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New Builders | Black Lab Sports Forum
Seth Levine
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Bolster’s Board Benchmark Study | Shout-out to Execs Looking for Independent Director Roles
Seth Levine
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Behind the Scenes: Writing “The New Builders”
Seth Levine
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The Covid Churn You’re Not Thinking About
Seth Levine
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Net Dollar Retention vs. Net Revenue Retention
Seth Levine
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Why We Raised $21M After Bootstrapping To An 8-Figure Revenue, Profitable Company
Brian Balfour
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The Importance of the Democratization of Capital
Seth Levine
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Startup Communities | Rural Entrepreneurship
Seth Levine
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Declaring Victory for The Finance Assistant Network
Seth Levine
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One Thing at a Time
Seth Levine
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Trump’s Legacy of Racism
Seth Levine
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Why a 47-Year Republican is Crossing Party Lines and Lessons in Life and Business from Her Daughter’s Painful Journey
Seth Levine
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Come Join Us at Foundry: Hiring a Head of Network
Seth Levine
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VC Fund Returns Are More Skewed Than You Think
Seth Levine
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The Mike Speiser Incubation Playbook
Kevin Kwok
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Seeing Like an Algorithm
Eugene Wei
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The Real Story Of America Is About Small
Seth Levine
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With the Federal Government Doing Nothing, Communities Step Up
Seth Levine
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Work Lessons from the Pandemic
Seth Levine
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Performance-based Options Grants
Seth Levine
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Going Public Circa 2020; Door #3: The SPAC
Bill Gurley
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Options about your Options – How to think through your company’s option program
Seth Levine
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Better Zoom Meetings
Seth Levine
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Resume Coaching Resource
Seth Levine
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Colorado’s State-Wide Mask Order
Seth Levine
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Vacation in the time of Covid
Seth Levine
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Board Diversity / Network Diversity
Seth Levine
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Why Don't VCs Index Invest?
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Functional Versus Strategic Meetings on Zoom
Seth Levine
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Make Juneteenth Meaningful
Seth Levine
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A Few Days
Seth Levine
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Enough
Seth Levine
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Uncertainty
Seth Levine
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Working Remotely – Extending WFH
Seth Levine
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Join Me Thursday for a Business Town Hall with Rep Joe Neguse
Seth Levine
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An Update on The Colorado Talent Network
Seth Levine
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Social Distancing or Social Distrust
Seth Levine
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Circular Advice from the SBA
Seth Levine
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The SBA Needs To Get It’s Act Together On The PPP
Seth Levine
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The Changing Nature of Entrepreneurship | EforAll
Seth Levine
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Colorado is Opening Up. Foundry is not. Here’s our Thinking.
Seth Levine
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We’ve helped over 150 small businesses navigate the crisis | Here’s what we’ve learned
Seth Levine
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The Week 6 Slump
Seth Levine
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PPP and Women and Minority-Owned Businesses – We Need To Do More
Seth Levine
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Extending and Expanding Aid – Some Policy Ideas
Seth Levine
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What Policymakers Don’t Understand About Small Business
Seth Levine
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Settling In
Seth Levine
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SBA PPP Loans Aren’t for Everyone
Seth Levine
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We’re Not Doing Enough to Help Small Businesses
Seth Levine
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Meet your COVID-19 CFO
Seth Levine
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Investing in Downturns
Seth Levine
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Tips For Working from Home From The Foundry Network
Seth Levine
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Byron Deeter and Jason Lemkin on the State of VC and the Cloud
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Some additional jobs resources
Seth Levine
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CO #COVID-19 Talent Network
Seth Levine
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Job hunting in the midst of a crisis
Seth Levine
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3/19/2020 Thoughts
Seth Levine
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Decision making in uncertain times
Seth Levine
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Dealing with evolving information about Covid-19
Seth Levine
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Take Decisive Action to Stem Covid-19 NOW
Seth Levine
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Social distancing vs social isolation
Seth Levine
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Pattern Matching is Dead. Long Live People Matching
Nnamdi Iregbulem
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Status Update, and How Everyone IPO'd in the 21st Century
Eugene Wei
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Organizational Scaling
Seth Levine
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Why We Care about the Future of Food at Samsung NEXT
Bo Ren
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Polar Bears!
Seth Levine
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The Markets Are Great . . . but Venture Outcomes Haven’t Changed Much
Seth Levine
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How Well Do Founders Do in Venture-Backed Exits?
Seth Levine
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How much should you be paying your auditor?
Seth Levine
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A-B-E
Seth Levine
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10 Rules for VC Savvy Founders
Parul Singh
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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth
Bill Gurley
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Status as a Service (StaaS)
Eugene Wei
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How To Get a Job In Venture Capital
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Board Conflict
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – The Board Meeting
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Your Board Package
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting – Before the Meeting
Seth Levine
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Designing the Ideal Board Meeting
Seth Levine
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Resilience
Seth Levine
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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?
Seth Levine
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Different vs. More
Seth Levine
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Benchmark’s Newest General Partner Chetan Puttagunta
Bill Gurley
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Invisible asymptotes
Eugene Wei
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How to Build a Better Network
Seth Levine
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Friday Fun #6 – You Had One Job
Seth Levine
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What’s The Optimal Portfolio Strategy for a Venture Fund?
Seth Levine
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You May Have Too Many VCs On Your Board
Seth Levine
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Friday Fun #5 – I have your friend’s phone
Seth Levine
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The Changing Venture Market In 3 Images
Seth Levine
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Friday Fun #4: Ordinals, Texas Style
Seth Levine
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What does it mean to be an “executive”
Seth Levine
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Fun conversation on Angel podcast
Satya Patel
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“Customer First” Healthcare
Bill Gurley
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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care
Bill Gurley
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Crypto token roundup
Chris Dixon
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Benchmark’s New General Partner Sarah Tavel
Bill Gurley
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Homebrew’s 2017 Annual Meeting: Our POV from year four
Satya Patel
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Homebrew Year 3: The Path to Investment
Satya Patel
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What’s your startup’s superpower?
Satya Patel
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The two goals of startup fundraising
Satya Patel
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Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users
Chris Dixon
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Stack Exchange
Chris Dixon
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Skydio
Chris Dixon
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VC investment vs Gartner hype cycle
Chris Dixon
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"This business is like bird spotting"
Chris Dixon
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a16z
Chris Dixon
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Shoehorning startups into the VC model
Chris Dixon
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Revisited: big VCs investing in seed rounds
Chris Dixon
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Allocation investing and the social premium
Chris Dixon
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Best practices for raising a VC round
Chris Dixon
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Inside versus outside financings: the nightclub effect
Chris Dixon
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted
Chris Dixon
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Size markets using narratives, not numbers
Chris Dixon
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Every time an engineer joins Google, a startup dies
Chris Dixon
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Being friendly has become a competitive advantage in VC
Chris Dixon
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Does a VC’s brand matter?
Chris Dixon
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Presenting Founder Collective
Chris Dixon
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How to select your angel investors
Chris Dixon
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The most important question to ask before taking seed money
Chris Dixon
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Getting a job in venture capital
Chris Dixon
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The only college major that matters
Chris Dixon
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Which VC firm should I pitch?
Chris Dixon
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Don’t shop your term sheet
Chris Dixon
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Information is the (other) currency of venture capital
Chris Dixon
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VC’s care about the upside case, not the mean
Chris Dixon
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Pitching the VC partnership
Chris Dixon
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Options on early stage companies
Chris Dixon
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The problem with tranched VC investments
Chris Dixon
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Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?
Paul Graham
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The Venture Capital Squeeze
Paul Graham
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A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
Paul Graham
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