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Raising VC Money? Tips No One Tells You : 1) Don’t Chase VCs, Attract Them - Build something so good they can’t ignore you. 2) Traction > Decks - Fancy pitch decks don’t matter if your numbers don’t add up. 3) Investors Follow Other Investors - G

Google’s $19B Loophole Google saved $19,000,000,000 in taxes last year. That’s because they’ve one company in Ireland for operations, sales, and employees. And another in Bermuda with zero employees but all the intellectual property. Ireland Goog

Was talking to a founder few days back. Had a healthy talk and there was a line that deeply resonated in me - "VCs don’t fund ideas. They fund inevitabilities. Make your startup something the world can’t ignore." Niket Raj Dwivedi, you are the bes

What VCs Actually Count as “Traction” at Pre-Seed Early-stage founders often ask: “We don’t have revenue yet - can we still raise?” Yes. But only if you show traction that feels real. Here's what investors actually look for at pre-seed: - A waitl

💭 Why VCs Say No: And It’s Not Always About the Idea Startups often think they got rejected because their idea wasn’t good enough. But that’s not always the real reason. VCs may pass because: – They’ve seen a similar idea fail recently – It’s “t

INDIAN VCs: FUELING THE FIRE OF FRAUD They’re not funding innovation. They’re funding bullshit — because they can’t tell the difference. They fund noise. Buzzwords over substance. Decks over products. PR over users. They chase founders who pitch,

If your business is performing well, forget fundraising. Here’s the thing: Venture Capital is not looking for good to great companies. They're looking for outliers. We're talking: → 100x–1000x potential → Category creators → Can this become a mo

A lot of founders think funding = validation, but that’s just step one. If you can’t turn that capital into real, sustainable growth, it’s just a countdown to running out of cash. Just because a startup raises VC money doesn’t mean it’s successful. V

Keith Rabois: “I tell founders not to worry about runway. Worry about lift.” Runway (money/time left) is just a tool to achieve lift (traction & growth). But if extra runway doesn’t help you hit traction, it’s useless. Don’t raise funds just to “

Visa? $32.6 billion—without owning a single bank. Crazy, right? 🎧 Spotify? $14.3 billion—and they don’t own any of the music! Lyft? $4.4 billion—and guess what? They don’t own any cars. Airbnb? $9 billion—with zero property of their own. 🍽 Doo