10 Reasons To Meet With A VC Associate Founders are often told that when fundraising they should avoid meetings with associates, and instead only speak with general partners. That might be a mistake. Trinity Ventures’ Michelle Tandler breaks down why.
Editor's Note: scroll down to discover 10 open startup jobs Weekly Digest: Top 10 Featured Posts Elizabeth Yin of 500 Startups dives into some high level startup categories and talks about how early stage investors consider each in “How Do Seed Investors Benchmark Startups?” David Skok of Matrix Partners provides results and insights from a survey of over 300 private SaaS companies including growth rates, go-to-market trends, “The Rule of 40%” and more in “2016 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey – Part 1” Top Tier Capital sees that 63% of “Sports Tech” companies have been formed after 2011 and visualizes their specific product sectors in “Breaking Down Sports Tech” Kate Mitchell and Tim Anglade of Scale Venture Partners cover what they think you should know about VCs and how founders should think about fundraising in “A VC Explains How VCs Work” Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures advises to try to make selling as formulaic and systematic as possible in “Selling” Gunnar Lovelace of Thrive Market and Susan Su of 500 Startups go through how Thrive Market used content as a dominant growth channel to achieve unusual, and positive, results in “A Case Study of Content-Based Growth” Caryn Marooney of OutCast boils down the challenge of PR into an execution plan and guidelines for startups to craft an image that will resonate with the public and the press in “The Best PR Advice You’ve Never Heard” Trish Tormey of Asana lays out a tactical game plan for making the 1-1 meeting your most important meeting, whether you’re a manager or individual contributor in “Why 1-1 Meetings Are Crucial to Your Team’s Success” Gabor Koncz of Automizy publishes a 10,000 word guide to help CMOs, customer success managers, product-, email and content marketers at SaaS companies design their products for growth in “Product Marketing for SaaS Businesses” John-Henry Scherck of DocSend aggregates various case study examples from leading enterprise and mid-market tech and service companies in “150 of the Best B2B Case Studies” Where Your Startup Is Most Likely To Survive A few weeks ago we asked how many companies that raise a Seed round will make it to a Series A. Or a Series B. Or C. Today we’re asking a similar question and answering it with data: Which of America’s top startup hubs have the highest rates of startup survival on a round-by-round basis?
A Short Primer On The Thiel Dust-Up (more) As the technology industry wrestles with Peter Thiel’s financial support of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, it’s a good moment to step back and try to understand what people are arguing about. Here's the overview.
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