The 2025 early-stage fundraising cheatsheet. Data: 4,000+ rounds raised on SAFEs or priced equity for pre-seed, seed, and Series A deals by US software startups. Lots of AI in these numbers, lots of SF in these numbers. If you aren't in those sectors, lower the medians.

Who is using genAI for B2B Marketing in a profoundly innovative way? Mostly I see folks using LLMs to write content, blog posts, social media posts, landing pages, email, etc. It's still very much one-off and not a total end-to-end solution that revolutionizes a b2b marketers

I polled 200+ early stage VCs. Optimistic for 2026. All are anticipating 5-10 new investments next year

2026 Pre-Seed and Seed Active VC list At Right Side Capital, we have made over 2,200 early-stage investments in the past decade and anticipate approximately 150 new investments in 2026. We also assist our founders in connecting with the right next-round investors. I have

Most AI startups will go bankrupt within 18-24 months. After reviewing hundreds of AI startups' financials at Hustle Fund, I'm seeing a sustainability crisis that nobody's talking about. The numbers are brutal. 🧵

How do you run client meals that ppl actually look forward to? I've led 100s of customer dinners over the years. As my old team knows well, I have a particular (aka "high maintenance") approach to making them special. This is a partial list of my event eccentricities:

I’ve been thinking a lot about what the net benefit of the AI platform wave is. The real question is how to empower every company out there to get more out of this platform shift and build their own AI native capabilities and enterprise value (vs inadvertently just transfer their

When Shohei Ohtani was a high school freshman, he created a detailed "dream sheet" with one central goal: to be the #1 draft pick for 8 NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball) teams. It was a 64-cell roadmap based on a framework called the Harada Method. Here's exactly what Shohei

AI penetration by industry and business function [2025]

The most active week for VC deals is the week of Dec 15th. All VCs want their deals done before they go on holiday lol

Founders, for the love of God; send investor updates. 1. Leverage them for help with customer intros, hires and fundraises. 2. Use them to create excitement and conversation about you in market. 3. Because these people have trusted you and given you their money. Not doing

This explains a lot about why Elon does what he does

Founders that lie to VCs or sort of fudge numbers sometimes think it's all a game But, it's securities fraud

Founders - pls don't do this. It's super tempting but always catches up to you. Your reputation is everything https://t.co/xEgWtiFtqY

We’re ready to add to our team at Alt Cap! We love being a small team and want to stay small-ish forever, but we have more to do these days than we can manage so it’s time to grow. A bit about us: - We’re investing out of our $275M fund II in San Francisco; mostly seed and

Thanks for doing the research on this @deedydas

NEW from Anduril cofounder and Founders Fund partner @traestephens: “I regularly see startups chasing what I’ve come to call a ‘Kamikaze’ funding round: an early, enormous check tagging the company with a valuation vastly outpacing its current status in the market.” This

🚨 HUGE Immigration News: new H-1B proposed rule will weight by wage! Based on your job code and location, your base salary percentile will slot you into one of 4 groups in descending order: IV > III > II > I. Level IV gets 4x tickets in the lottery, III gets 3x and so on.

I've been writing about the H-1B for over a decade. Here's my balanced take on the $100k fee: — who is affected most by it — what's bad about it — what's good about it