From the Investors

Tomasz Tunguz of Redpoint Ventures lays out why the fundraising pitch must focus on why the company’s momentum so far will make the leap across the chasm inevitable in “The Challenges Of Raising Your Series B”

M.G. Siegler of GV rethinks scale for social networks in the era of app inundation in “Nice Networks”

Lisa Suennen of GE Ventures describes different types of shoes as a narrative of what it’s like to be an investor in “A VC’s Tale in Five Shoes”

From the Operators

Eric Kerr of TruckMap shows how his fake investment portfolio would’ve done as a VC portfolio and his learnings after looking back on everything in “Startup Investment Portfolio Game: Results”

Allan Wille of Klipfolio speaks to the importance of seeing transparency for what it is rather than how it's portrayed in “Transparency and business: Four critical things business owners need to know”

Must-Reads From Today's Raise The Bar

Liza Chang of InsightSquared dives into why you need to be able to hire reps who can be trained, your hiring team also needs to be aware of how reps are ramping up to full productivity in “Ramp Rate: The Key To A Successful Sales Team”

Brian Balfour of Reforge takes a look at a hypothetical example of total registered users and new registered users going up, but growth not being sustainable in “Authentic Growth”

Hassan S. Ali of The Onion expands on eight lessons learned after creating and shutting down a fragrance side project he worked on in “What I Learned Starting a Brand from Scratch”

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