Disrupt Your Industry With Love, Not Contempt

Disrupt Your Industry With Love, Not Contempt

One VC on why love and greed are the best emotional base on which to build a startup.  By Hunter Walk (Partner, Homebrew) “You ever notice how the first slide in any pitch deck these days is ‘[industry] IS BROKEN?’” A friend pointed this out to me last week talking...
Fake It Till You Make It

Fake It Till You Make It

A pair of co-founders on the very steep learning curve they faced when raising money. By By Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg (Co-founders, theSkimm) Now that the fundraising process is complete, we can be honest: We had no idea what the F we were doing when we...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of First Time Fundraising

Two co-founders who recently raised their first round share the ups and downs of the process. By Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg (Co-founders, theSkimm) Last week, we announced that we had raised a round of funding. We could not be happier about who our partners are...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of First Time Fundraising

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of First Time Fundraising

Two co-founders who recently raised their first round share the ups and downs of the process. By Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg (Co-founders, theSkimm) Last week, we announced that we had raised a round of funding. We could not be happier about who our partners are...