How much Money to Raise (or invest)?

Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator wields a powerful influence over the startup world. But president Sam Altman is apparently a bit worried there might ... (2017)

Raising capital is really difficult, no matter what anyone says about the influx of early-stage dollars into the startup eco-system. I know very st... (2018)

AVC, Fred Wilson, 2011: "I spent some time yesterday talking to an entrepreneur about this topic and I thought I'd share what I told him with every... (2017)

JULY 21, 2017 BY MIKE LINGLE Don’t come up with an arbitrary number of how much money to raise In our last article we set the stage for successfu... (2017)

from Fred Wilson, AVC, 2017: I believe that excess capital makes companies weak and unfocused. I believe limited capital makes companies strong and... (2017)

TechCrunch: Capital won’t make your company insightful. If you can’t creatively turn $1 into $10, why do you expect to be able to turn $1 million i... (2017)

Recently, a good friend of mine asked me how much he should raise in his round.  He was lucky enough to have a range of options.  My simple advice ... (2012)

[This blog post was originally published on All Things Digital on March 17, 2010.] Much has been written and said about the current economic downtu... (2010)

Some time ago my friend (and co-investor in Clio , Jobber and Unbounce ) Boris Wertz wrote a great blog post about "the only 2 ways to bui... (2018)

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review Reading the NY Times article “Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Shor... (2018)

Jason Calacanis is a technology entrepreneur, angel investor, and the host of the popular podcasts This Week in Startups and Angel. As a “scout” fo... (2019)

I was talking to a friend this past week who is looking at an early stage company and trying to figure out how to value it. (2019)