What is Your Investor Net Promoter Score?
This is an updated post from our original “What is Your Investor Net Promoter Score?” from May 2015. It is not a secret that we love Net Promoter Score at…
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This Week in Venture Capital — February 3rd, 2022
The following were featured in the Visible Weekly — our weekly newsletter. We search the web for the best tips to help founders move forward, then deliver them to thousands of inboxes every week. Subscribe here. The Ideal Investor Update…
Investing in Investor Updates
The Visible team was fortunate enough to give a seminar on investor updates to the 2017 Techstars Chicago class today. It was great getting to synthesize our key learnings from the past…
What is Your Ultimate Report? Part 1: Pacing
When we talk to our customers and potential customers we love to get an understanding of their “ultimate report”. It’s the report that stakeholders can quickly rally behind and understand how…
How to Deliver Bad News to Investors
Even the best companies will eventually face one of the unfortunate inevitabilities of startup life—the investor update that’s littered with bad news. But delivering dissatisfactory results doesn’t make you unique.…
5 Ways to Make Investor Communication Better
It’s not them. It’s you. That’s right—the sour relationship between you and your investor—it’s your fault. Yes, bad blood between a startup CEO and one of the company’s financiers may…
Why Investors Need Your Data (and Updates)
VC financing markets have, recently, felt like a monopoly game where your best friend is the banker and you let them pick their token first. It has never been easier to raise capital and at the entrepreneurs terms. What many founders and entrepreneurs forget is the responsibility they hold after they have a term sheet signed and fresh cash in the bank. Venture Capital and Investment Firms have a duty to provide returns to their Limited Partners (aka their investors); they are not just…