Raising Capital

• 11/09/2025in Insights / Research, Raising Capital

  “I’ll See It When I Believe It,” Entrepreneurs and Startup Investors Put Conviction Before Cash Flow

  That tired phrase has been responsible for more missed fortunes than bad timing or bad luck. It’s the refrain of cautious uncles, small-town bankers, and risk-averse executives who prefer their innovation the way they prefer their wine: aged, tested, bottled, and priced at a predictable markup. But in the world of entrepreneurship, that order of...
• 01/09/2025in Raising Capital, Startups

  Bootstrap or Raise Capital: How to Decide What’s Right for Your Startup

  If you’re like me, it might have been Labor Day in the U.S., and it was a beautiful one here in Austin, not putting in any work is more or less impossible; besides, entrepreneurs throughout the world were working and so with the focus on work, I couldn’t help but put thought to this frequently...
• 13/06/2025in Insights / Research, Raising Capital, Startups

  You Don’t Need Traction. You Need to Understand Why They Say You Do.

  There’s a special kind of eye twitch that founders get the 37th time they hear, “We’d love to invest, but you need more traction.” It’s a vague hand-wave of a dismissal that sounds helpful, but is really just cowardice in a hoodie. And when you ask what kind of traction they mean, they blink like...