In today’s startup landscape, with the ever-evolving VC market conditions, it’s more important than ever to have early revenue before dedicating valuable runway to seeking out and knocking on investors’ doors. In 2024, the venture capital market is as competitive as ever. While there’s still ample capital available, savvy investors are becoming increasingly selective. The …
The most successful accelerators are the ones that can consistently attract the best founders and, in turn, venture investors. However, that’s becoming increasingly more difficult for any single program to do, as the number of accelerators continues to surge and virtual-first programs create global competition. It’s become more challenging for accelerators to stand out in …
Christoph Janz (PointNine) recently published the 2022 version of his popular SaaS Funding Napkin. As the name implies, the SaaS Funding Napkin aggregates primary SaaS milestones required to raise venture capital and summarizes them as if on the back of a napkin. The SaaS Funding Napkin is useful reference material for any SaaS founder. …
A lack of local capital. That’s one of the most common challenges that we hear from accelerator operators (and founders) in nascent startup ecosystems around the world. In reality, when we dig deeper, in the vast majority of those ecosystems the challenge is not a lack of local capital. The capital is there, it’s just …
With Mars in the headlines, I recently re-read Commander Chris Hadfield’s book, “An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth.” It offers a rare glimpse into an industry premised on iteration and built on decades of astonishing successes and spectacular failures; a program that attracts extraordinarily high-performing, risk-taking individuals powered forward through a lifetime of struggle …
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That simple three-word message – Bitcoins on pizza – has become a catch phrase among GrowthX portfolio founders. I’ve been using it to quickly and delicately advise them that they may be spending their highly valuable time on relatively low or non-priority activities, which hurts their startup revenue growth. It snaps them out of it …
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