Every Monday, I sit with my team to review the funding activity of the previous week. Then, I pick out a few companies that I would have loved to invest in or find founders doing similar things from that list. Here is my rationale behind this weekly exercise. I am back with the weekly picks! Last week 27 start-ups
A common observation made by fund managers, limited partners, and (interestingly) journalists on the 2 year-long startup boom is the speed of some of these deal closures – primarily by skimping (or skipping) due diligence on deals before investing. I regularly get advice from well-wishers within and outside our offices to reduce the due
Behind every successful fundraise is a strong narrative. That is the honest answer to a question that investors repeatedly ask when they get bewildered by sky-high valuation and moonshot venture ideas. However, the founder’s ability to weave a strong narrative about their venture elevates its valuation from being based on its fundamental value to being based on the future potential. I’ve always promoted fundraising as a sales activity versus a financial activity because the result that
I believe that founders are super-humans. Founders take an incredible financial, emotional, mental, and (unfortunately) health risk to create the change that they want to see in the world. They must display a great belief in the incredible while consistently staring at the inevitable. They must wear so many faces that they may not even remember what the original face looked like. Founders, big or small, have an incredible amount of power, disrupting
There is an old saying in sales, “The worst salespeople are the best interviewers”. However, this saying is even more applicable for sales managers, especially those with 2-3 decades of selling experience, for different organizations. They can be detrimental to your start-ups’ sales efforts. The best sales managers are too valuable for an organization to leave; they are the "rainmakers," the people that get retained at all costs! However, the mediocre or low-performing
Every Monday, I review the funding activity of the previous week and pick three favorites. This week, I picked Tech plays as my favorites.
Every Monday, I review the funding activity of the previous week and pick three favorites. This week, I picked Tech plays as my favorites.
Propstack Sales Guy (PSG): Hello, is this Anirudh Damani? Me: Yes, who is this? PSG: I am xx calling from Propstack. You had asked us to reach out to you about getting transactional data on real estate transactions. Me: Yes, I did. I am looking out for a commercial property, and I wanted to find out about transactions that
