Venture Capital

For SaaS, classic sales and marketing efficiency metrics are utterly misleading.

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

A new experience for established tech operators looking to give back and gain a new community.

How do VCs differentiate themselves when there is plenty of capital available? Beezer Clarkson outlines 7 ways VCs are working to differentiate themselves.

OpenLP is an effort to help foster greater transparency in the entrepreneur-to-LP tech ecosystem. Sapphire Ventures.

After Travel Khana and Babygogo saw the money in their bank accounts taken by the taxman, the startup ecosystem is considering drastic workarounds if the DPIIT doesn’t act soon.

Clearly Buffett views Seritage as a value-add real estate play but he surely knows that Eddie Lampert is in control and value investors like Buffett should know that “he who has the gold, makes all of…

Not all retail is in trouble. Here are three mall REITs that could have very bright futures.

Shopping Center REITs have surged more than 13% over the past quarter, bouncing back after a rough 2017. Powered by improving economic growth, fundamentals have inflected higher in recent quarters.It'

The stars aligned for a blowout holiday shopping season, and it delivered. Shoppers returned to brick-and-mortar retailers, sending sales higher by 4-6% above 2016.The strong holiday season, however,

Steve Marcus looks for big ideas in their earliest stages.

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PDF | On Jan 1, 2007, D. De Clercq and others published The venture capital post-investment phase: Opening the black box of involvement

Call it the Masayoshi Son mathematical distortion field.

Prior to joining Susa Ventures as an investor, I was a research associate at Silicon Valley Bank where my team monitored and analyzed the…

A place where words matter

I get asked this question a lot and while the real answer is “I have absolutely no idea,” I thought I’d make something up here so I at least have a place to send people who ask me this question (as…

For aspiring and idea-stage entrepreneurs up to the challenge, the Founder Institute provides a comprehensive step-by-step program to launch a startup, support from to startup mentors, and a global ne…

New Ventures BC promotes entrepreneurship through innovation. We run the annual Innovate BC-New Ventures Competition, offering $275,000+ in prizes to BC startups.

A look at the Venture Capital industry heading into 2020. Some have questioned whether the industry has a future. This deck does a detailed look at where the i…

First-time fund managers with previous VC or founder experience go on to raise a second fund 66% of the time—more often than their counterparts who are new to the game.

Helping startups, entrepreneurs, and inventors find venture capital.

In general, I’ve been hesitant to write about VC industry dynamics and instead much prefer to opine on companies, industries, or behavior shifts. I think this is because (a) I simply don’t know how…

Micro VCs are rising. Here are 13 to keep an eye on.

The size of seed rounds are growing as seen in Mattermark’s recent investment report, which has brought on the rise of pre-seed funds looking to be the first money in to a startup before they raise a …

Micro-VC slide deck from May 10 Raise conference

Seed stage investors micro VCs.