How do Investors in Startups (Angels, VCs) - decide where to invest?

You don't have a lot of financial metrics to go on, but yes, the team is very, very important. Also, look for good ideas that look like bad ideas. (2019)

In the first part of this series I shared the quantitative data that I collected in my recent survey among more than 60 SaaS investors. Today I’ll ... (2018)

There is a lot of advice about how to be a good startup founder.  But there isn’t very much about how to be a good startup investor. Before goin... (2020)

YC Continuity Partner Anu Hariharan breaks down the important metrics we look for when we’re evaluating a startup’s business model and common mista... (2019)

December 2020 As I was deciding what to write about next, I was surprised to find that two separate essays I'd been planning to write were actua... (2021)