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How Much Equity Should You Give Away at early stage?
Founders ask me one question more than any other before a raise.
“How much equity should I give up?”
Wrong question.
The right one👇
How much ownership do you need to protect between now and your next raise?
Here’s the framework to ar...
How to set early stage startup valuation?
Wrapped my first-ever LinkedIn Live & 117 attendees showed up!!!
S*hit just got real!!!... hehehehe
For those who don’t know me... I’m an ex- VC & have been simplifying fundraising for first-time founders on LinkedIn for over 1.5...
15 VC Funds You Need to Know (2026)
Before we get into today’s list, here’s a quick primer on why it matters.
VCs don’t invest their own money.
They raise it from LPs (Limited Partners), who are usually high-net-worth individuals (HNIs) who park their capital with a fund...
Elorian raised $55M pre product - Here's what's relavant for you from their story
In January 2026, Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind after 14 years.
He had no product. No revenue. No customers.
By April, his company — Elorian AI — had raised $55 million at a $300 million valuation.
The investors included Menlo Ventures,...
The 47-Tab Problem: Why Founders Research Everything and Pitch Nobody
You know the feeling.
12 VC websites. 6 Crunchbase deep dives. 17 LinkedIn profiles cross-referenced against portfolio pages that haven’t been updated since 2022.
Hours in. Zero emails sent.
This is not a productivity problem but an info...
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