
From Pre-Seed to IPO: Startup Funding
Building a startup is a marathon, not a sprint. To succeed, you'll need to navigate several stages of funding expertly. Learn about each fundraising stage and what investors are looking for.
Real lessons, practical advice, and honest perspectives on building startups by real entrepreneurs and operators.

Building a startup is a marathon, not a sprint. To succeed, you'll need to navigate several stages of funding expertly. Learn about each fundraising stage and what investors are looking for.

We're all building the wrong product. We just don't know it yet. Every great product starts as a collection of wrong assumptions that eventually get shaped into the right ones.

What drives you as a startup founder? Your difference is the most important quality that drives your startup's success — and it's something investors need to clearly see.

Films inspire and ignite our imaginations like nothing else. Below you'll find a short list of great films about business that every founder should watch.

Tracking the right metrics can give you confidence that you're heading in the right direction and help you engage with investors to secure pre-seed capital.

Should we show our commitment and work for nothing? Or should we try to at least match how much we made at our last jobs? Startup Founders need to calibrate compensation dynamically.

Every startup launches like a winner. Headlines, funding announcements, and hype make it feel like success is already locked in. But those victories are just noise at the starting line.

When we talk about the value of a startup, most people immediately think about how outsiders see it. But the real question is: valuable to whom?