An investor update breakdown — One of the biggest mistakes an entrepreneur can make is not communicating with their existing investors on a regular cadence. Angels & Venture Capital funds LOVE founders that are great communicators. Your startup’s stakeholders can’t help you if they don’t know what is going on! From hiring to business development…

Creating and Using Your Investor Target List — Prioritization and Personalization. These are two key concepts in Part 3 of Fundraise Faster. (Make sure you’ve read and watched Part 1 and Part 2). They are the two biggest reasons entrepreneurs should spend time putting together a target list of investors. …

Prep time. In Part I of Fundraise Faster we talked about the why, when and how much of fundraising venture capital. In Part 2, we’re going to chat about documents — specifically what sort of documents (or collateral) you should have ready to go before you start your fundraise. In…

The food system continues to grow as an area of interest for entrepreneurs, investors, and enterprises. 2020 put a magnifying glass on several challenges facing big food. Many of these challenges have existed for years, but the impact of COVID-19 brought them to the forefront of many stakeholder’s minds, from…

The Why, When and How Much of Startup Fundraising — Fundraising. The most common topic I cover with entrepreneurs is Fundraising. This makes sense, it takes capital to grow a business. If your company runs out of money, you die. I’m a big believer that to be great at fundraising you need to have a process. This is what I…

Innovation in the food system continues to grow in interest for entrepreneurs, investors, and enterprises. That includes us here at Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator in partnership with Cargill and Ecolab where I serve as Managing Director. 2020 put a magnifying glass on several challenges facing big food. Many of…

Three things we’re seeing throughout the entrepreneurial world Earlier this year, at the end of Q1, I shared the letter I wrote to our LPs after only a few weeks after the US shut-down because of Covid-19. Since then, the pandemic has had a dramatic effect on businesses of all…

The letter I sent to investors when I shut down my company — Entrepreneurship is hard. The majority of startups fail. I will step out on a ledge and speak broadly for those of us that have started companies which ended up folding and say — we don’t want our companies to fail. But it happens. In fact, it happens to most founders…

Early last week I sent a Quarterly Update out to the LPs of The Syndicate Fund. I included my observations and macro thoughts on what is happening and what will happen in the startup and venture capital world during this unprecedented time. …