8 Myths of Pre-Seed Venture Investing
I’ve been investing at the pre-seed for the last 7 years. First through the Techstars NYC and now as a Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures.
Pre-seed investing presents a unique set of challenges as compared to later stage (series A+) venture investing: the signals, the data, and the strategy could not be more different.
Like every industry, venture capital has tried and true advice that is often passed around between fund managers. But, like in every other industry, the advice needs to be contextualized.
In the same way that you would not apply the enterprise sales playbook when running an SMB SaaS company, the strategies and methods used by Series A firms do not apply to pre-seed. In fact, they often can be the opposite of what makes sense.
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When Ben Ling quit his high-powered job at Khosla Ventures to start his own firm, he didn t know if he would fail.
It took hundreds of meetings but Ling successfully raised $90 million in just four months, he told Insider.
He shared his best tips for how to go from $0 to multi-millions when fundraising.
When Ben Ling quit his high-powered job as a partner at Khosla Ventures to launch his own fund he had no idea if he would fall on his face. When I started, I didn t know whether I would be able to raise a $60 million fund or not, because nobody knows until you actually do it, Ling told Insider.
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Introduction
Nigeria, Africa s largest economy and second biggest market,
is an important investment destination. One of her greatest
challenges is archaic business laws. Fortunately, the past two
years, has seen remarkable and historic positive developments in
business laws. On Tuesday, the
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2019, President Muhammadu Buhari, signed the Federal
Competition and Consumer Protection Act (the FCCPA ) as
the first anti-trust and consumer protection law of Nigeria. An
anti-trust regime for Nigeria is expected to influence the wider
West African market as the Economic Community of West African
States ( ECOWAS ) has been working on a regional
anti-trust regulatory framework akin to the Common Market for East
Former Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza predicts there will be a decline in business travel and airlines will have to rely more on leisure travel for revenue.
Former Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza warned on Wednesday that more federal aid for airlines is “not a long-term solution” for the struggling industry.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a sharp decrease in demand for travel as people were encouraged to stay home in an effort to curb the spread.
“I think that the government is doing a good thing with the payroll protection, but it’s not a long-term solution for fixing what the airlines really need,” the Sterling Limited Partners operating partner said.