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How To Get A Buyer's Attention Before You Sell Your Business
Hey,
In this issue, I break down how you can...

How Corp Dev Works With Product Teams
Hey,
Today I'm talking about M&A (again)....

How to Sell Your Business When Low On Runway
Hey,
This week, I feature a guest post from...

How Feature Bloat Hurts Conversion, Retention, and Fundraising
Hey,
In this issue, let's talk about your...

How To Sell Your Company Without A Big Exit
Hey,
I'm still on the topic of exits this...

Who Is Buying Startups in 2025: Strategics, Rollups & PE
Hey,
In this issue, I talk about who acquires...

Venture Orphans: M&A and Side-sell Exits
Hey,
If your VC partners have recently...

Why You Should Hire An Investment Banker
Hey,
This week, I want to talk about why you...

The 3 Slides Founders Screw Up Most On Their Pitch Decks
Hey,
This week, I hand over the reins to one...

You Guide To Vibe Coding For VC
Hey,
Today, I touch on a buzzword (or is it a...

Series A in Decline, Seed on the Rise in 2025
Hey,
In this issue, I talk about how the...

Startup Hiring Strategy For 2025
Hey,
Everyone says, “hire for the long haul.”...

Why “Quick” Fundraises Rarely Happen
Hi there,
Welcome to the ~300 of you who have...

Why Investors don’t fund overworked founders
Hi there,
In this issue, I discuss outsourcing...

Why Most VCs Only Back Startups With Traction
Hi there,
This week, I talk about the myth of...

Alternative Exit Strategies For Founders
Hey,Most startups won’t IPO or get acquired,...
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Raising Capital As A Female Founder With Jess Loren
Would You Reject A $20M Term Sheet?This Founder...

The Real Cost of Capital
Hi there,
So, things are looking grim as it...

10x Growth Strategies: Barry Stamos on Building a Top Advisory Team
How To Get Advisors Who Build Your STartup
...

Creating A Compelling Startup Narrative Investors Will Love
Hi there,
Welcome to the latest 343 of you...
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Small-Cap IPO Strategy: Insights from Peter Goldstein
Liquidity is coming. Here's How to get IPO-ready

Picking The Right Capital Strategy
Hi there,
In this issue, I explore founders'...
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Building a Unicorn: JC Glancy on the Zenbusiness Journey
Why JC Glancy Gave Up The CEO Role For $25K To...

How To Use AI to Level Up Your Fundraising
Hey, Jason here.Welcome to the 900+ folks...
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Startup Celebrity Marketing 101 with Gil Eyal
The Ins-and-Outs of Celebrity Startup Marketing...

How you can engineer a big exit like Google's Acquisition of Wiz
Hi there,
This week, the news broke on Wiz's...
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Lessons From An Investor Who Has Backed 200+ Startups
Adam Spector has backed 200+ startups. What do...

How To Get Acquired
Hi there,
In this issue, I share some tips to...

Women-led Funds and Startups in 2025
Hi there,
On the week of International Women's...

How To effectively Deploy Capital Post-Fundraise
Hey,So, you just closed a round and are...
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The Cashflow Strategy that Grew Swag.com to $40M in Annual Sales
Forget Fundraising. This Cash Flow Strategy...

How To Use AI to Scale Your Business With Jon Tucker (Help Flow)
200 Employees, One Founder, and a Whole Lot of AI

Navigating Your Fundraising Quadrants
Navigating Your Fundraising Quadrants

Bootstrapping vs. VC vs. Exit: Laurits Just’s Journey to Flippa Invest
Bootstrap, Fundraise or Exit?

What You Can Learn from Rebel Energy’s £100M Growth With Penelope Hope
Make Your Investors Your Biggest Cheerleaders

David Goldberg on Founders Pledge: Scaling Philanthropy to $1.3B
From Founder to Philanthropist with David Goldberg

The Whisper Way: Scale, Profit & Sell (Carrie Kerpen)
How To Make Your Business A Sellable Asset

How to Sell Your Company in 9 Months with Connor Tomkies
How To Choose an Acquisition Partner

David Hauser on Bootstrapping Grasshopper to a $175M Exit
One Founder, Two Journeys: Bootstrap Vs VC

Patrick Butler on BizDefender, SMB Fraud & Venture Studios
Scaling Your Business Through Acquisition

Avoid the RBF Trap: Debt Strategy for Founders w/ Kyle Rector
Debt Financing 101 with Kyle Rector

From DigsConnect to VC: Alexandria Procter on Scaling in Africa
How This Female Founder Secured An Unexpected...

Patrice King-Brickman on Funding Women & Donor-Advised Funds
Could Your Next Round Come From Donor Advised...

How to Shut Down a Startup: Dori Yona on Simple Closure
Is There a Right Way To Shut Down Your Business?

Mark Peter Davis on VC, Bootstrapping & Founder Fit
Do you have to raise venture capital? With MPD

Bootstrapped to VC: Nick Telson-Sillett on Trumpet, Sequel & DesignMyNight
How Nick Telson-Sillett went from Bootstrapping...

Master the 12-Month Plan That Will Get You Funded Faster
From AI Author to AI Founder, To VC Investor

YC to Acquisition: Air Force to Arcus Founder Edrizio De La Cruz
From Air Force Mechanic to $25M Fintech Founder

Nailing Your 1st Calls With Investors
Get the Most Out of Your First Call With An...

The Truth About SAFEs with Ari Newman of Massive VC
Why SAFEs Aren't Always So Safe
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From Actor to Alcohol VC: Noah Friedman on Top Shelf Ventures
Are Alcohol and Vices Are the Next Big Thing in...
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How Prateek Joshi Raised $16M for Plutoshift as a Solo AI Founder
From AI Author, to AI Founder, To VC Investor

Michael Markesbery on Oros Labs, Aerogel & a $22M Series B
From Backpacking Nightmare To NASA, to Raising...
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From 3Q Digital to Buyback: David Rodnitzky on Agency Exits
When To Sell Your Business

Aakash Shah (Wyndly) on YC, Angels & Runway Tactics
How Akaash Shah Raised Millions Without VC

Dan Reich on Troops.ai, TULA, and Exit Timing
How Dan Reich Went From Selling Bouncy Balls To 2...

How to Get Bought (Not Sold): Chris Gladwin on Exits, Down Rounds & Data
How Chris Gladwin Raised Over $100M and Achieved...

VC Syndicates vs. Funds: Alex Pattis Explains SPVs
How Alex Pattis Raised $75M in 300 Deals by...

Wen-Wen Lam on Building NexTravel, Pivoting to B2B & Selling to TravelPerk
How Wen-Wen Lam Sold Her $100M Revenue Startup...

How ‘Hire Me’ (SaaS) Sold Without Hypergrowth: Lessons from Rob Hunter
From Bankruptcy to Multi-Million Dollar Exit with...

How Colby McKenzie Raised $12M & Engineered a Strategic Sale to Weedmaps
Ex-Lawyer Turned Cannabis-Tech Entrepreneur...

Winter Mead on Supporting Emerging Venture Funds & Building Coolwater Capital
Mastering Venture Capital Strategies with Winter...

Solo Founder to $28M: Diana Heldfond on Scaling Parallel’s Special EdTech
Solo Founder Diana Heldfond Raised $29M to...

How Micro & Small Caps Go Public: Peter Goldstein on IPO Myths, Prep & Funding
IPO Expert Peter Goldstein Explains How to...

Shane Neman on Bootstrapping vs. VC: Nightlife to EasyTexting to Angel Investor
Exited Founder Becomes Every Founder's Dream...

From Idea to Acquisition: Brady Nolan on Building Till & Selling to Best Egg
Knowing When to Sell to Grow with Brady Nolan,...

Unlocking the Secondary Market: Sim Desai, CEO of Hiive, on Liquidity
Want to Learn About How Secondaries Work? I...

Openstock’s Alex Simpson on Unlocking LP Liquidity in Private Markets
Alex Simpson Has $800M to Solve The Liquidity...

Blue Jay’s Sherry Jiang: Fundraising, Pivots & Building Peek
The Originator of the Opportunity Fund Concept...

Inside Proof VC’s Insider-Access Strategy with Thanasis D
The Originator of the Opportunity Fund Concept...

Allstar.gg’s Nick Cuomo: Fundraising Lessons from Pre-Seed to A
Former Pro Gamer Recently Raised a $12M Series A...
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Ask AI CEO Alon Talmor on Startup Fundraising & Scaling with AI
Ask-AI's Alon Talmor, Managed to Still Raise...

Tyler Denk on Beehiiv: From Morning Brew to $7M ARR
Tyler Denk Recently Closed a $12.5M Series A...

Closing the Seed: Lessons from Start Left CEO Jeremy Vaughn
Jeremy Vaughan Raised a $3M Seed and Told...
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Vlada Lotkina on Scaling EdTech and a Smooth Exit
Vlada Lotkina's $12M EdTech Funding & Exit Journey

Howdy’s Frank Licea: Talent Risk, YC & Fundraising
Employee to CTO Co-Founder Raises $18M for...
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Scaling SaaS with Revenue Based Funding: Kaustav Das (Efficient Capital Labs)
First-Time Founder Raises $110M
Fundraising...

Nami Baral on Raising $11M and Building Neural’s Payroll Platform
Serial Founder Raises $7M for Next Company in a...

Summer CEO Paul Kromidas on Raising $80M and PropTech Strategy
Lessons Learned Raising $30M in Equity & $50M in...

Automating Private Markets: Arch CEO Ryan Eisenman
Raising a $20M Series A as a First-Time Founder: ...
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Micro One’s Ali Ansari: GPT Vetting, $3.3M Pre-Seed & Building Public
Raising a $3.3M Pre-Seed @ $30M Valuation:...
