Daily Shot of #Startups #Entrepreneurship and #VentureCapital #VC - Issue #82

An insight-driven and well-thought-out product strategy plan can drive an industry into the adoption of a hidden need.

In the beginning of my venture career, I knew of a firm that was involved in a highly competitive funding round that they ultimately failed to win. It was a clearly hot space and they felt like they had missed out on an opportunity to place their bet in it—and worst of all, they lost the deal to what they considered a rival firm.

Thoughts and reflections inspired by the frenzied pace of investing and deal making we are seeing in the early stage ecosystem in India, and specifically the trend of traditionally later stage…

For early-stage enterprise software start-ups, there is a disconnect between venture investors’ expectations for revenue, and the lead and sales velocity the founding team can deliver. The venture…

They say being a solo founder is like playing the game of startups in hardcore mode. You are going to find yourself continuously juggling things between building your product, approaching and…

If there’s such a thing as good Midwestern founder values, Foster has them. He’s no tech outsider, though; after all, he’s a graduate of Y Combinator, and Zapier’s very raison d’être is linking all the web apps the tech world can dream up. But he credits getting started in Missouri with his willingness to ask a simple question: Do we all have to follow the same fundraising playbook?

When you look at the recent Q3 numbers on seed and early-stage VC fundraising, you might think we are in the late stages of a VC bubble: