ScaleSignals
Ben Botes, Susan | Angel InvestorWhere founders and investors get the intelligence to understand where capital is moving — written by a GP who has built and backed companies in emerging markets from both sides of the table.
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Why Founders Are Quietly Raising Debt and Calling It Equity.
The instrument founders raise on has been changing for three years. The mental model hasn't.
A founder I know raised what he described as a venture round last year. Eight million dollars, growth stage, a name-brand lender on the term sheet...
Decision Architecture Part 2 — The Diagnostic
Two weeks ago I made the case that most companies do not have a decision system. They have a meeting calendar and a culture of opinion-having, and somewhere along the way those got mistaken for the same thing. The piece named four layers a...
How to Be Ready Before You Raise
The preparation framework that converts the four signals quiet capital responds to into actual founder behaviour.
A founder I worked with last year called me three weeks into her Series A process. The raise was not going well. She had fift...
Your Raise Is Not a Funding Problem. It Is an Investor Fit Problem
Most founders think they have a fundraising problem.
Usually they have an investor-fit problem. Those are not the same thing, and the difference matters more than almost anything else a founder decides during a raise.
A fundraising proble...
The Quiet Money
A founder I know spent eighteen months on his Series A. Strong company, real revenue, decent traction. He sent his deck to two hundred and forty investors. He took meetings with sixty-eight of them. He closed in the end, but the round took...
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Stop wasting your raise on the wrong investors. Get curated investor lists, funding path checks, evidence builders, and prep packs for stronger capital conversations. By Ben Botes, active GP and 4x exited founder.
I backed 13 ‘unicorns’ at pre-seed and seed. Writing for angels who want better returns and startup founders who want their attention.
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