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Revenue is easy, profit is harder

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The Buy and Hold Mindset

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Downturn career decisions

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Bolt Financial's loans come due

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Extend your runway, cheap money is over

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If founders treated investors the way they treat employees

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Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?

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The Great SPAC Scam: SPACs a Great Deal for Sponsors, but Not Others

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If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

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Understand seed round dynamics in Silicon Valley

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FounderPool: A community for founders to share risk and diversify their equity

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Andrew Wilkinson and Tiny Capital

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Earnest Capital Trailhead

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I almost sold Baremetrics for $5M

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A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)

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TLDR Stock Options

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About $250K is needed for a company get to sustainability

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New Standard Deal

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What Could You Build with $10k?

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We Spent $3.3M Buying Out Investors: Why and How We Did It

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Silicon Valley’s Exclusive Salary Database

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What Could You Build with Just $10,000?

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How Hard Is It to Generate a 10X Return on an Investment?

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My offer numbers from big companies

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What happens when you sell your startup?

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Capital-As-a-Service: A New Operating System for Early Stage Investing

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Why We Said “No” to a $40M Round

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SAFEs are not bad for entrepreneurs

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VCs need one large exit to see good profits

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TLDR Stock Options

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Convertible and SAFE notes

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Startups turning to a funding tactic used by oil and gas companies in the 1900s

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When Is a “Mark” Not a Mark? When It’s a Venture Capital Mark

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An Almost Acquisition Story

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Kickstarter is Debt

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Show HN: Venture Dealr – Visualize and turn the knobs on VC financing concepts

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The Pre-Money vs. Post-Money Confusion with Convertible Notes

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What the Seed Funding Boom Means for Raising a Series A

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Why I Walked Away From a $12M Acquisition Offer 18 Months After Our Launch

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

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Startup CEOs who gave up fortunes to turn employees into millionaires

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409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered

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Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes

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Ratio Of Engineers To Sales People In Billion Dollar SaaS Startups

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The unprofitable SaaS business model trap

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The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions

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The only two ways to build a $100m business

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SmartAsset (YC S12) Helps With Tough Financial Decisions Like Homebuying

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How VCs get paid

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Shoehorning startups into the VC model

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A Classic Startup Horror Story

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Once you take money, the clock starts ticking

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Always have 18 months of cash in the bank

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The Next 10 Years Will Be Great For Both Founders And VCs

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Thoughts on Convertible Notes

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New Trends In Startup Financing Explained For Laymen

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High Resolution Fundraising

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I am a guy who sold his startup and I have like $20M in the bank. AMA.

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How to Be an Angel Investor

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Sell for half a billion and get nothing (2021)

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I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

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