Investing in Startups (Guide for Investors: VC, Angel, Seed)

Q&A w/ Prominent Seattle Tech Investor, Chris Devore | Capital & Growth Blog Below is a summary of an interview with the prominent Seattle tech ... (2017)

Most VCs think they can predict the future when it comes to early stage deals. At 500, we’re more realistic about our strengths and weaknesses as s... (2018)

Jason M. Lemkin, Partner @ SaaStr Ventures First, I try somehow to identify before a first meeting if there is a >=2.5% chance of investing. Thi... (2018)

Crunchbase News, 2017: “Public market investors have the luxury of being able to make, invest, and move their money anywhere they’d like. But the ... (2017)

How do you evaluate a potential startup investment? This is inevitably one of the first questions I’m asked when talking to aspiring VCs at industr... (2017)

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)

To mark First Round's 10th birthday, we did a deep dive into the last decade of our investment data to surface some interesting and surprising insi... (2018)

Last year I wrote a few posts (here and here) that talked about how skewed venture returns were. The key take-away graphic from that post is below ... (2018)

The commitment to a thesis is part of the fiber of USV--a shared set of ideas creates a framework that allows us to operate with focus and work on ... (2018)

Strategic factors are often more important than purely financial ones. (2018)

A new guidebook for tech companies helps them imagine future scenarios where their tech might end up causing societal harm. (2018)

We made the classic mistake that all investors make. We focused too much on what they were doing at the time and not enough on what they could do, ... (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)

Q: Why would an investor invest in a pre-revenue company? This is an important question to understand. If you don’t understand it, it’s hard to und... (2019)