This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series Yesterday I had lunch with a really interesting and capable serial entrepreneur who is raising his A round. The topic of ”strategic” investors came up. It felt like Groundhog…
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Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares
Handling PR with VCs This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs…
Tagged with: startup, technology, vc
Posted in Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice — 118 Comments ↓
Posted in Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice — 118 Comments ↓
How to Deal with Skeletons in your Closet
This is part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital. I recently wrote a post on how to Deal with your Elephants in the Room during your VC meetings. Elephants being big issues that the VC will be…
Deal with Your Elephant in the Room
This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. There’s an old saying that if I’m talking with you and I start the conversation by saying, “whatever you do, DO NOT think about Elephants” then you can’t help but…
VC Funding Season Ends Next Week
This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. I’m sure I’ll spark the ire of some VC’s for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as black-out days in venture capital. It’s worth you knowing this…
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Posted in Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice, VC Industry — 34 Comments ↓
Posted in Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice, VC Industry — 34 Comments ↓
Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Read more about Mark.
