perspectives on funding and venture capital (VC)
how VC is evolving, and musings on funding alternatives for founders
sari and
perspectives on funding and venture capital (VC)
sari and
WTF VC by Slow VC’s Sam Lessin - great assessment of what’s going on in early 2025.
wonderful definition of vc:
build out a collection of futures we believe in and use capital and time to help brilliant people accelerate and/or materialize those forecasted futures
perfect formula, and the opposite of how VC-backed founders think
Venture capital should come with a warning label. In our experience, VC kills more startups than slow customer adoption, technical debt and co-founder infighting — combined. VC should be a catalyst for growing companies, but, more commonly, it’s a toxic substance that destroys them. VC often compels companies to prematurely scale, which is typicall... See more