January 2, 2020
2020 Venture Capital Reading List
Valor's latest venture capital reading list has something for investors, founders and futurists.
January 2, 2020
Pricing APIs – Top Two Approaches
Founders, how do you price your API? Here are two approaches and more background to…
December 18, 2019
Mastering Investor Updates
Use this practical roadmap to more effective investor updates in the least time. It'll help…
December 2, 2019
Building Your Private Company Board
Startups scale at the speed of the founder's learning and growth. Nothing will impact your…
November 26, 2019
VC Questions You Can Expect Raising Startup Capital
When you're raising money for your first institutional round (series seed), questions VCs ask go…
November 24, 2019
Why Smart Investors and Founders Use the “Inclusion Premium”
Inclusion is one of the risk factors controllable by investors--especially in venture capital. Now's the…
October 4, 2019
How Valor Invests and Our Venture Capital Diligence Process
Here are highlights from Valor’s venture capital diligence process. We are sharing this because we…
September 19, 2019
3 Forces Pressurizing Venture Capital
Venture capital value creation is shifting from where it has resided historically, with Series A…
September 19, 2019
New Places Compete for Venture Capital’s New HQ
States like Maryland, Georgia and Arizona are outpacing California in the acceleration of seed capital…
September 19, 2019
New Faces Drive Innovation
The vacuum in first institutional rounds is unsustainable for our financial markets. All three of…