Clear, insightful, and constructive communication between startups and their venture capital investors is really important.
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Aug 1, 2024
Kruze Consulting discusses the importance of giving your startup's investor updates and his preferred startup investor update template.
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Jul 9, 2024
As a former VC, I focus on helping Kruze clients pitch venture capitalists - and pitching during a downturn (really, a tech/VC recession) requires special fi...
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Sep 5, 2025
Pro rata rights and how they can affect seed funds are important for both seed-stage investors and founders.
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Aug 1, 2024
If you are a founder talking to a VC investing their first fund, or a VC with a fund that is $50 million in size or smaller, it’s highly likely that the VC i...
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Aug 1, 2024
Everything you need to about how venture capitalists make decisions and who has the most decision making authority.
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Aug 1, 2024
This is one of the worst situations for a VC fund to find themselves in and, although we haven’t seen it happen yet, it is something worth reviewing given th...
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Jul 9, 2024
We like to think of the venture capitalist as the most important customer of a startup, certainly in your startup’s early phase.
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Aug 1, 2024
Fund reserves are a hotly discussed issue at the moment because the NASDAQ has fluctuated quite a bit recently.
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Aug 1, 2024
One fairly complicated question we encounter is “Do investors have to pay capital gains taxes each time the valuation of a company goes up when, at the same ...
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Aug 1, 2024
Venture capital is getting more difficult to obtain in today’s market. So how do SaaS founders know when they should tighten their belts and be more efficien...
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May 31, 2025
It's really important to state upfront that no venture capitalist or board member ever wants to fire the founder from a startup.
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Jul 9, 2024
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