Tl;dr: Never use caps when you are communicating professional content. Trying to optimize subject headers is a waste of time. Just do the basics properly…
Tl;dr: Build a 3-year financial model and not a 5 year one. It’s easier to build and defend. More years mean more uncertainty and more…
About Work Life Work Life Ventures is a VC firm that invests in tools and services for people. It was founded by Brianne Kimmel and…
Tl;dr: Email your deck to an investor as an attachment. Send it in a PDF. The file size shouldn’t be larger than 8mb I get…
Tl;dr: If you get cut off, or your meeting with an investor ends abruptly, that’s not a bad thing. The fact the investor is being…
Tl;dr: You do a startup to make everyone money at an exit. You need to know how much you want to sell for and be…
Tl;dr: Learn a simple but important exercise I teach all founders when they write pitch decks. You need to know what is important and special…
Tl;dr: Guide for VC investors to write rejection emails to startup founders and leave a positive impression at scale, whilst not spending too much time….
Tl;dr: Understand why founders hate the way that VCs reject them This is the first in a short 4 part series about how VCs can…
Tl;dr: Founders will feel the pressure to say things to investors in order to get a deal done. Whilst some claims are OK, others could…