Walter Thompson

If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already.

It’s OK for a founder to jump into an emerging hype cycle, but only if they have a genuine interest in that area that reaches back in time.

If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already.

If someone wants to advise you on “storytelling,” you have my permission to skip that meeting and work on your data room instead.

If you’d like to know what investors are looking for, how they want to be approached and what they’re most likely to ask, keep reading.

Meeting investors is easy. The hard part is crafting a story that’s so convincing, they’ll wire you some money.

Software is a company’s third-largest expense, but because it’s spread across multiple departments, it’s the CFO’s responsibility to find places to cut.

Despite the surge of interest in AI, startups hoping to use it as a springboard to their next funding round should think twice.

“Building a plane in mid-air” is something Silicon Valley visionaries love to say, but it has little to do with the iterative work of developing software.

With SVB’s contagion contained, the VC community seems open to writing smallish checks for pre-revenue startups.