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Due diligence is a critical part of the private equity investment process. Each firm has a different process, but generally all include...
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A Three Point Checklist To Find The Perfect Co-Founder
Ask any startup founder or experienced VC and they will tell you that the most important factor impacting success of a startup is the...
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Frank Tighe
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Five Startup Lessons I Learned While Sailing
I recently had the opportunity to join a small group sailing from Warwick, RI to St. Augustine, FL. As we made plans for what would be a...
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checactus
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Forever A Loan - A Look At Lending
As long as civilization has existed, people have had a basic problem: they want to buy or build things but don’t have the cash. And so,...
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Ross Kimbel
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Eight Actions that Lead to a High Performing Board
The very best entrepreneurs I’ve worked with manage their boards -- not the other way around. They leverage the skills of their board...
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The Retail Refragmentation
Shortly before the new year, Nordstrom announced that they are exploring spinning off its off-price department, Nordstrom Rack, into a...
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The Future Is In Your Voice!
According to Statista, over 50% of households in the United States have a smart speaker in them today,and that number is expected to grow...
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Stefanie Karwoski
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What is Web3 and what does it mean for commerce?
If you’ve been on Twitter or following any tech newsletters recently, you’ve likely heard of Web3 and how it’s the future of the web. So...
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Ross Kimbel
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Why Fewer Seed Deals in Q3 Does not Suggest Fewer Investable Companies
Last week, Crunchbase reported Q3 deal numbers across venture capital. The headline was largely the same for anyone who has been watching...
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Shaunish Mookerji
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Are We In A Bubble?
This is a chart of the median pre-money valuation of companies raising a Series A or Series B in the last ten years, compiled from...
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Sid Mookerji
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Time To Remember The Fallen
We recently commemorated the twentieth anniversary of 9/11. If you’re old enough to remember, you probably have a vivid memory of that...
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Stefanie Karwoski
Aug 24, 20212 min read
Three Questions to Answer Before Raising Your Startup’s First Check
On a weekly basis I typically meet anywhere from 5 to 15 founders. Given what I do, I usually meet founders after they have decided that...
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Ross Kimbel
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The Three Most Important Customer Development Steps
The most limited resource of an early stage startup is not cash, it’s time. A company may have deep cash reserves, but if they are...
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Shaunish Mookerji
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Why Headless Commerce Is Important
Let’s talk about the history of software. In the early days, computers ran programs that were 1) self-contained and 2) imperative. This...
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Sid Mookerji
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Five Traits that Define Success
If I were to distill my learnings from having hired and worked with thousands of leaders, I would identify five traits that separated the...
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Shaunish Mookerji
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Spotting The Next Amazon
A common refrain in startup investing is that the idea a company starts out with very rarely ends up as the product that makes them...
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Ross Kimbel
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Core Values
One of the first things we did as a team when I joined the fund at the start of 2020 was define our core values. We were prepared for...
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Stefanie Karwoski
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How Marketplaces are Empowering Future Designers, Creatives, and Manufacturers
Most of my career has focused on building, implementing, and sourcing software. So when I started business school in 2019, I wanted to...
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Sid Mookerji
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Three Ways To Avoid Burnout
As the CEO of SPI, I had the privilege of leading a group of very smart technical professionals. They made game-changing contributions in...
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Shaunish Mookerji
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Specialization
In the earliest human civilizations, people were generalists. If you wanted to survive, you had to know how to do everything, from...
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