Daily Shot of #Startups #Entrepreneurship and #VentureCapital #VC - Issue #85

bring on “the difficult ones”- they make the world better and drag the rest of us along with them.

There are probably 100+ founder and operator-led funds now of $50m-$100m each.  With many more coming.  Many more.  Who often make decisions in minutes.

It’s vital we know how to balance scale. To move up to the next level of success, we must continue learning, adapting, and anticipating.

After more than a decade of running B2B growth teams at PayPal and investing at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner now spends his days helping early-stage startups with growth. He’s seen firsthand how changes in a handful of words can yield jaw-dropping differences in conversion — and accelerate a startup’s course to product/market fit. Here, he makes the case for starting with language/market fit first, and offers up his 4-step process for getting there.

Unicorns were once considered a rare white horse with a rainbow horn on its head. However, the definition of a unicorn has evolved over time. In the business sector, a unicorn is a privately held…

Angel Investor? VC? LP? GP? What’s the difference between all these types of investors? Simply put, it boils down to when investments are made. Angel Investors are often the first investors into a company (who may or may not invest in or follow after founders’ friends and family — some of whom may actually be Angel Investors).