early stage
500 global
+20
Mar 7, 2025
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6 min read
What Your CEO Won't Tell You About Your Stock Options
“The company that you held shares in: if it went to zero, would you regret that you didn't sell?"
startup
+18
Feb 24, 2025
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3 min read
Investor Insights for African Startups with Capria Ventures’ Mobola da-Silva
“We're getting a bit more creative in Africa around funding for startups.”
startup
+19
Jan 27, 2025
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3 min read
2025 Cybersecurity Trends, Insights and Storytelling Advice from YL Ventures' Andy Ellis
"Reading the room is knowing when somebody already agrees with you.”
survey
+22
Dec 23, 2024
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3 min read
Mercury Raise 2024 Survey: Founder Challenges, Fundraising Trends, and the AI Hype Cycle
“The peer connection that founders have? It’s almost trauma bonding.”
startup
+17
Dec 16, 2024
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3 min read
How Fractional CFOs Become a CEO's 'Strategic Teammate'
"Part of it is getting a handle on cash flow and spend.”
startup
+17
Dec 10, 2024
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3 min read
From PhD to CEO: Sahil Agarwal of Enkrypt AI Shares Essential Lessons for Aspiring Founders
"Don't pitch a technology. Pitch a story."
VC
+17
Oct 31, 2024
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3 min read
Starting up in stealth
"It’s much harder to be mediocre at a small startup," says TigerEye CEO/co-founder Tracy Young.
GenAI
+18
Oct 15, 2024
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3 min read
Shaping the future of work and care: Courtney Leimkuhler + Elana Berkowitz of Springbank
“I always really love when it is clear to me that founders have profound empathy.”
journalism
+22
Oct 7, 2024
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3 min read
Crafting influence: Early-stage PR strategies from Chikodi Chima of Moonshot
“You can sell a problem long before you have a viable solution for it.”
startup
+20
Sep 25, 2024
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3 min read
Unlocking growth-stage VC: Insights from CapitalG's Jill (Greenberg) Chase and James Luo
"Could this company be a $100 billion company? Could it be a trillion-dollar company?”
M&A
+19
Aug 28, 2024
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3 min read
Allie Garfinkle of Fortune's 'Term Sheet' talks tech reporting, startups and AI
"I actually write every day, because I want it to feel urgent.”
VC
+22
Aug 26, 2024
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3 min read
TDK Ventures President Nicolas Sauvage on building successful deep tech startups
"There's no doubt in my mind that no one can forecast the future."
PLG
+20
Aug 16, 2024
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3 min read
Understanding early-stage PLG with Laura Schaffer (VP Growth, Amplitude)
“If you think of payment, it's just a kind of friction.”
PLG
+19
Aug 13, 2024
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3 min read
Overcoming barriers to AI adoption with SnapLogic CTO Jeremiah Stone
"You absolutely should be finding mundane, hard problems that are not solved well by enterprise technologies."
startup
+18
Aug 6, 2024
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3 min read
“When we started, AI wasn't a thing.”
VAST Data CEO/founder Renen Hallak on early-stage customer discovery + acquisition
startup
+15
Jul 17, 2024
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3 min read
Felicis' Viviana Faga on early-stage AI brand development + investment tactics
"Be brief, be bold, be gone. Get your point across and then move on.”
