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I recently shared a thread urging founders to preserve their exit optionality by limiting the amount of capital they raise.Read this next part … if only because you would prefer

Founder 1: Runs startup for five years. Sells for ~$100M. Makes $30M.Founder 2: Running startup for ten years (and counting). Valued at ~$1B. Founder shares valued at $30M.Which founder would

The range of fundable startup ideas has expanded over the last decade to encompass everything from Slack to slacks.Now, the challenge is separating interesting, but niche markets, from those that

We spend a lot of time trying to figure out what makes startups explode out of the gates, and not nearly enough on what drives the “overnight successes, a decade

So much of the “dream” seems to be to build a startup and sell to a larger strategic/tech company.If you thought your company might survive a thousand years, what might

100 years ago, World War I and the Spanish Flu together claimed ~100M lives.At a time when the world was in tatters, Guccio Gucci began to stitch together a business

My career has been focused on the promotion of new technologies.@fcollective we are firmly fond of “Weird & Wonderful” startups.Still, when I first received invitations to a memorial service and

“It’s time to build,” is the new tech mantra & rightly so.We are unequivocally beset by challenges that require action but the best founders always seem to solve problems by

“Just Survive.”This is the most common piece of advice that I’ve shared with portfolio CEOs over the last month.Three additions to it: *So far* isn’t a long-term solution. If you’re