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Articles that explore the terms, ideas, and qualitative research behind how capital gets allocated — and where the gaps are.
One of the panelists - Kwame Boler - said something that stuck with me. I wanted to write about it here for a few reasons. One reason is that I needed to clarify my understandin…
In a previous post, we discussed how founders can build trust with investors . In this post, we will discuss the barriers that prevent founders from building trust.
In a previous post in this series, I described a founder's insights about how to pitch to capital allocators.
Summary Founders become trustworthy organically or inorganically; and by having domain expertise that leads them to become the perfect people to build a scalable idea.
For example, it is easier to raise money from people who know you personally than people who don't. That doesn't mean it's easy to get them to wire you money; it just means the…
In a previous article, Kwame Boler and I discussed the importance of trust and the barriers that founders face when building trust with investors. The TLDR of those posts is tha…
In this post, Lance Mason describes the impetus for collaborating with on the series “Zebras and Horses” and previews their research methodology for uncovering insights about th…
Summary Either underrepresented founders are building companies that should be receiving venture capital, or they are building ineligible businesses.
In a previous post , we discussed the motivation for the series Zebras & Horses. Next, we discussed the relevance of representation in capital distribution .
“Even if we think about how much technological progress is happening and how fast it is happening, I would argue that it’s a narrow cone of progress, where the definition of tec…
In this installment of the series “Zebras & Horses”, Lance defines the market environment and why it is important for founders to understand what it is.
First, we established the expected distribution of venture capital by gender.
A discussion exploring inefficiencies in the venture capital allocation process.