Walter Thompson
It’s impossible to plan for everything that can go wrong while building a startup.
A definitive founder’s guide would have to include chapters like, “So you’ve hired the wrong person,” or, “Five ways to tell if an investor is lying to you.”
A definitive guide would have to include chapters...
The “Pineapple Express” that dropped several inches of rain over the Bay Area last week left the ground saturated. The next storm front expected to arrive tomorrow is expected to bring disruption and destruction on a massive scale.
It’s a decent metaphor for our startup ecosystem: Just as there...
Yuval Krigel is an associate at YL Ventures who focuses on deal sourcing, technological due diligence and providing value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies.
The massive valuations and funding rounds of 2021 left some room for optimism around the state of the Israeli cybersecurity industry in 2022, instilling...
For the last 24 months, Thomvest Ventures recorded headcount data for 150 Series A to C enterprise SaaS startups, and we have the numbers.
This report prepared by Eddie Ackerman, Thomvest’s strategic finance operating partner, looks at startup hiring velocity since February 2021 by region, company type, and notably,...
Few startups launch with a coherent content strategy.
In the early days, every project is a sprint, and there are times when putting on a show for investors can feel more important than actually serving your customers.
Blogs are a great example: Because they’re a cheap way to drive SEO,...
When a cat is scared, it may hide under the couch; a startled fish will swim into a dark hole. And when humans feel uneasy, we tell ourselves stories.
An example: “growth at all costs” is a fairy tale made possible by cheap money that helped venture capitalists set...
I have nothing against the investor class, but sitting in a room with several VCs while I try to sell them on my billion-dollar idea sounds very stressful.
When an investor inevitably asks founders about their valuation expectations, it is a trick question of the highest order. If the...
If you ask three different people whether we’re in a recession, you could easily get three different answers.
As often as the ‘R’ word is bandied about in tech, a survey of 450 early-stage founders found that only 12% plan to hire fewer workers and 6% have laid people...
A few years ago, I was driving in a rural area on the coast north of San Francisco and found myself low on gas. In fact, the fuel light was flashing urgently.
My cell phone couldn’t get a signal to direct me to the nearest gas station, so I...
In films, screenwriters always include a moment known as the Promise of the Premise. It’s the part of the story where the audience settles in to the new world they’ve entered.
One of my favorite examples is in the first Harry Potter movie, when Hagrid takes Harry to Diagon...
