If you're looking to serve on private company boards, here's a quick primer to set your sights correctly. This is a four part guide to serving on private company boards.
Startups scale at the speed of the founder's learning and growth. Nothing will impact your speed more than who you have on your board. Here's how to think it through.
VC Questions You Can Expect Raising Startup Capital
When you're raising money for your first institutional round (series seed), questions VCs ask go beyond founder/vision into business model. Here's what you can expect.
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 believe it's just as important for you to do diligence on your first investor as…
Venture capital value creation is shifting from where it has resided historically, with Series A firms, to those firms writing first checks at first valuations--a cadre of high conviction first…
States like Maryland, Georgia and Arizona are outpacing California in the acceleration of seed capital deployment. So while there’s a legacy of institutional capital flowing to West Coast firms, many…
The vacuum in first institutional rounds is unsustainable for our financial markets. All three of these trends say the time is now to reset your investment approach in venture capital.
by Michael Pellegrino, Junior Analyst (and student at Vanderbilt) Atlanta is a VC diamond in the rough. Few are aware of all city offers and even less have been exposed…
