Office hours with Stanford Professor Ilya Strebulaev. Data-driven VC rankings, Stanford frameworks, and field notes for founders raising capital and investors deploying it.
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The Making of a Unicorn Founder Is Changing
Most unicorn founding teams trace back to a shared workplace — and the employers those teams come from have changed.
Where do unicorn founders come from? Over the past months we have mapped the backgrounds of all 4,357 founders of the 1,75...
The Best US Universities for Unicorn Founders
Which universities are most likely to “produce” a unicorn founder?
Which universities are most likely to “produce” a unicorn founder? The intuitive answer — Stanford, MIT, Harvard — is right by raw count. But the more interesting question...
The Best Angel Investors in the US: Who Backs the Most Unicorns, and Who’s Active Now
Who has backed the most US unicorns over a career, and who is writing the checks now.
A unicorn is, by definition, a company that mostly worked out. The people who funded one early are therefore worth a look, and on the angel side those ar...
The Hold-Up Problem and Mandatory Conversion: Who Controls the IPO?
In the previous article, we saw that investors in different rounds can disagree about whether to convert their preferred stock. For a range of exit values, some want to convert and others don’t. That’s interesting as an analytical exercise...
Cold Pitch: How to Ensure the Investor Gets Back to You
Most advice on cold pitching is opinion. What follows is what I learned from sending 80,000 cold emails to 28,000 real investors and from working with hundreds of my Stanford students on pitching.
Most founders believe that the only way to...
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