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Fundraising
- [Video] Andrew Chen & Justin Kan: 10 Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur
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- 10 Blockchain Investors Founders Should Know
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- 5 Strategies for Cold Emailing Potential Investors
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- 6 Types of Investors Startup Founders Need to Know About
- 60+ Active Seed Stage SaaS Investors & Fundraising Tips
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- 7 Lessons for Entrepreneurs From Naval Ravikant
- A Flipped Approach to Fundraising
- A Guide to How Venture Capital Works for Startups and New Investors Guide
- All Things Community-Led Growth with Corinne Riley of Greylock
- An Investor is Ready to Fund Your Company. Now What?
- An Update Template for Kicking Off Your Fundraise
- An Update Template for Raising Your Series A
- An Update Template for Sharing Your Deck with Potential Investors
- An Update Template from DCG for Blockchain & Digital Currency Companies
- April 2020 Venture Data Report
- August 2020 Venture Data Report
- Bloomberg Beta Investor Update Template + What They Look for in a Startup
- Building a Calm Company with Tyler Tringas
- Building Your Ideal Investor Persona
- Checking Out Venture Capital Funding Alternatives
- Creating Momentum in Your Fundraise with Brett Brohl
- Debt vs Equity Financing
- Debut VC Funds in February 2021
- Determining if an Accelerator is Right For You with Lisa Besserman of Expa
- Dr. Dan — The Burdensome Investor
- Exploring VCs by Check Size
- February 2020 Venture Data Report
- First Meeting with a Potential Investor? Ask These 5 Questions
- Founders — are you sharing memos?
- Fresh VC Funds Raised in January 2021
- From Deck to Check: Using Visible for Investor Updates & Fundraising
- Fundraising is Blind
- Fundraising Levers — Managing the Supply & Demand of Your Startup’s Fundraise
- Has Startup Capital Really Become Harder to Get?
- How Design Can be a Competitive Advantage with Kristian Andersen of High Alpha
- How Employees Think About a Fundraise
- How Rolling Funds Will Impact Fundraising
- How Starting Line Helps Founders Address Their Mental Health with Ezra Galston
- How to Avoid the Series A Crunch
- How to Build an Investor List with Gale Wilkinson of Vitalize
- How to Cold Email Investors: A Video by Michael Seibel of YC
- How to Create FOMO During a Fundraise with Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund
- How to Effectively Find + Secure Angel Investors for Your Startup
- How to Keep Potential Investors Engaged
- How to Nail Your First Investor Pitch with Lolita Taub & Eric Bahn
- How to Raise Crowdfunding with Cheryl Campos of Republic
- How to Raise Your Series A with Michael Rangel of Novo
- How to Write a Business Plan For Your Startup
- How to Write a Problem Statement [Startup Edition]
- Icarus: The New Unicorn?
- Introducing Decks — Manage Your Raise From Deck to Check
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- January 2020 Venture Data Report
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- Manage Your Next Fundraise with Visible
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- Moving Investors Through Your Fundraising Funnel
- Navigating Your Series A Term Sheet
- Our 5 Favorite Quotes About Pitch Decks from the Founders Forward
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- Pitch Deck 101: The Go-to-Market and Customer Acquisition Slide
- Pitch Deck Design Cost Breakdown + Options
- Pitch Deck Designs That Will Win Your Investors Over
- Pitch Deck Success: Drip Campaign for Term Sheets
- Q3 2019 Pro Rata Newsletter Funding Data
- Raising a Series A: Crunch or Reality?
- Ready to Make the Jump from Seed to Series A? Think About These 3 Things.
- Roundup: How to Pitch Investors
- The 100th Edition of the Founders Forward: We’re here for you.
- The 23 Best Books for Startup Founders at Any Stage
- The Founders Forward Podcast List: “Christoph Janz on SaaS fundraising”
- The Founders Forward Podcast List: “The Twenty Minute VC”
- The Founders Forward Podcast: “Axios Re:Cap”
- The Founders Forward Reading List: Hustle Fund’s Newsletter
- The Guy Kawasaki Pitch Deck
- The Investor Due Diligence Checklist: How to Treat New VCs Like Business Partners
- The Past, Present, and Future of VC Funding with Anne Dwane of Village Global
- The Startup Metrics Potential Investors Want to See
- The Supply & Demand of VC with Kenn So of Shasta Ventures
- Thinking About Pitching Point Nine Capital? Check Out These Tips.
- This Week in Fundraising — April 12th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — April 19th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — April 5th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — August 12th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — August 19th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — August 26th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — December 16th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — December 23rd, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — January 13th, 2022
- This Week in Fundraising — January 20th, 2022
- This Week in Fundraising — June 14th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — March 19th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — May 31st, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — November 18th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — October 7th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — September 23rd, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — September 2nd, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — May 31st, 2021
- This Week in Pitch Decks — August 12th, 2021
- Tips from YC: Using Asks, Metrics, and a Recap to Power Your Investor Updates
- Too Small to Fail
- Total Addressable Market: Lessons from Uber’s Initial Estimates
- Understanding Power Law Curves to Better Your Chances of Raising Venture Capital
- Unit Economics for Startups: Why It Matters and How To Calculate It
- Upside.fm Podcast: Powering Communication for Founders and Investors
- Venture Capitalist vs. Angel Investor
- Venture Capitalists Investing in Texas
- Venture Data Report: Q1 2020
- Visible Connect: Introducing Our Investor Database
- Visible Webinar: Alternatives to Venture Capital
- Webinar Recording: 10 Finance Tips to Help With Your Next Fundraise
- Webinar Recording: First-Time Founders Guide to Fundraising with Lolita Taub
- Webinar Recording: Fundraising in Today’s Environment with Elizabeth Yin
- Webinar Recording: Leadership & Fundraising During Uncertain Times
- Wellness, Fundraising, and Design with Lex Oiller, CEO of Billbox
- What are the Advantages of Angel Investors?
- What do Investors Care About When it Comes to Culture?
- What is Pre-Seed?
- What Should be in an Investor Data Room?
- What this Founder Learned From Going Through Y Combinator 3 Times
- When is it Time to Hit Pause?
- Y Combinator Investment Memo Template
Hiring & Talent
- [Video] Andrew Chen & Justin Kan: 10 Lessons from a Serial Entrepreneur
- [Video] The Do Better Work Video Series
- [Webinar Recap] How to Grow Your Team and Maintain Your Culture
- [Webinar] Essential Frameworks for Scaling an Organization with Your Team in Mind
- [Webinar] How Your Board Can be a Secret Weapon with Matt Blumberg
- 3 Questions you Need to Answer if You Plan to Hit Your Quarterly Goals
- 4 Takeaways From Our Webinar with Scott Dorsey
- 7 Lessons for Entrepreneurs From Naval Ravikant
- An Update Template for Sharing Your HubSpot Funnel Metrics
- An Update Template to Ensure You Get the Most of Your All-Hands
- Attracting Talent with Collaboration
- Building Your Personal Board of Directors
- CEO Weekly Note Update Template
- Focus on What Matters
- Founders, Feeling Stressed? Check Out These Posts
- How do you Determine Proper Compensation for Startup CEOs and Early Employees?
- How is the Role of Sales Enablement Changing?
- How to Better Align Sales and Marketing
- How to Fairly Split Startup Equity with Founders
- How to Set up a System for SDR Success
- How We Work: Zoom Calls
- In Do Better Work, Clarity and Empathy are the Keys to Results
- Leaders Have Been Taking Communication Seriously
- Max’s Note: One of our Favorite Newsletters
- Mike’s Note #4 — All the Stuff I Got Wrong in 2019
- Mike’s Note #5 — Do you have a CEO coach?
- Mike’s Note #7 — Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
- Our 7 Favorite Quotes from the Founders Forward Podcast in 2020
- Our 9 Favorite Posts on Remote Work
- Roundup: The Importance of SDRs
- Should I Consider a Part-time Executive for My Startup?
- Startups: Why Send Management Reports?
- The (Remote) Water Cooler
- The Founders Forward Podcast List: “Running a Successful All-Hands”
- The Founders Forward Podcast List: “The Founder’s Guide to Emotions”
- The Founders Forward Podcast: “Axios Re:Cap”
- The Founders Forward Reading List: “Jobs-to-be-Done”
- The Friday Note Challenge
- The Startup Guide To Building Successful OKRs (Examples Included)
- The Ultimate Guide to Your Startup Job Search
- This Week in Company Culture — April 12th, 2021
- This Week in Company Culture — January 6th, 2022
- This Week in Hiring — April 19th, 2021
- This Week in Hiring & Talent — April 5th, 2021
- This Week in Hiring & Talent — December 23rd, 2021
- This Week in Hiring & Talent — January 13th, 2022
- This Week in Hiring & Talent — January 20th, 2022
- This Week in Hiring & Talent — March 29th, 2021
- This Week in Hiring & Talent — November 18th, 2021
- Too Small to Fail
- Upside.fm Podcast: Powering Communication for Founders and Investors
- Webinar Recording: Leadership & Fundraising During Uncertain Times
- What Does a Bad Sales Hire Really Cost Your Startup?
- What Talent Wants: Transparency in the Workplace, Ownership, Growth, and Collaboration
- What this Founder Learned From Going Through Y Combinator 3 Times
- When & Why it’s Critical to Hire A Customer Success Manager
- Why a Formal Interview Process is Vital to Your Startup’s Success
- Why do SDRs Fail?
- Why Knowing Your Circadian Rhythm Can Make You More Productive
- Why Sales Enablement Matters
- Why You’re Doing SDR Onboarding Wrong (Part 1)
Investor Updates
- [Webinar] How Your Board Can be a Secret Weapon with Matt Blumberg
- 10 Fundraising Takeaways from Season 2 of the Founders Forward
- 3 Key Takeaways from our Series A Webinar
- 4 Items to Include in your Next Investor Update (If You Want to Drive Engagement)
- 4 Tear Sheet Examples to Give You Inspiration for Your Next LP Report
- 5 Key Takeaways from 3Q Venture Capital Investing Reports
- 5 Signs You Should Invest in Investor Updates
- 5 Takeaways From Our CEO On The Stride 2 Freedom Podcast
- 5 Ways to Make Investor Communication Better
- 6 Components of a VC Startup Term Sheet (Template Included)
- A Guide to How Venture Capital Works for Startups and New Investors Guide
- An Update Template for Marketing Teams
- An Update Template from DCG for Blockchain & Digital Currency Companies
- April 2020 Venture Data Report
- Bloomberg Beta Investor Update Template + What They Look for in a Startup
- Board Meeting Packet Template
- Community Templates: Malomo’s Weekly Investor Update
- Connecting Dots to Tell Your Story
- Creating Momentum in Your Fundraise with Brett Brohl
- Do You Have a Stakeholder Management Strategy?
- Do Your Investors Need to Match Your Values?
- Dr. Dan — The Burdensome Investor
- Everything a Startup Founder NEEDS to Know about Pro Rata Rights
- Founder Collective “Fill-In-The-Blank” Investor Update Template
- Founders — are you sharing memos?
- From Deck to Check: Using Visible for Investor Updates & Fundraising
- How do Your Investors View You?
- How to Build an Investor List with Gale Wilkinson of Vitalize
- How to Build Trust Through Investor Feedback
- How to Create FOMO During a Fundraise with Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund
- How to Deliver Bad News to Investors
- How to Find You Company’s Storytelling Framework
- How to Get the Most Out of Your Next Board Meeting
- Investing in Investor Updates
- Investor Development: What is it?
- July 2020 Venture Data Report
- Mike’s Note #12 — Investor NPS
- Mike’s Note #8 — Our Open Sourced Investor Database
- Most Popular Times to Send Your Investor Update
- NextView Ventures Seed Investor Update Template
- Onboarding New Investors? Think About These 3 Things.
- Our 7 Favorite Quotes from the Founders Forward Podcast in 2020
- Our Guide for Getting Started with Investor Updates
- Our Guide to Investor Updates
- Portfolio Management: What it is and How Visible Can Help
- Powderkeg Podcast: Mike Preuss and David Hall on Fundraising and Stakeholder Reporting
- Should You Send Investor Updates?
- Techstars Minimum Viable Investor Update Template
- The 100th Edition of the Founders Forward: We’re here for you.
- The 20 Best Investor Quotes We’ve Heard This Year
- The Founders Forward Podcast List: “The Twenty Minute VC”
- The Founders Forward Reading List: “Understanding Investors”
- The Founders Forward Reading List: Hustle Fund’s Newsletter
- The Supply & Demand of VC with Kenn So of Shasta Ventures
- The Week in Board Management — April 26th, 2021
- Thinking About Pitching Point Nine Capital? Check Out These Tips.
- This Week in Board Management — December 9th, 2021
- This Week in Investor Relations — December 2nd, 2021
- This Week in Investor Relations — March 25th, 2021
- This Week in Investor Updates — April 12th, 2021
- Tips from YC: Using Asks, Metrics, and a Recap to Power Your Investor Updates
- Upside.fm Podcast: Powering Communication for Founders and Investors
- Venture Capitalist vs. Angel Investor
- Webinar Recap: Alternatives to Venture Capital with Tyler Tringas of Earnest Capital
- Webinar Recap: How to Run a Board Meeting on Demand
- Webinar Recording: First-Time Founders Guide to Fundraising with Lolita Taub
- Webinar Recording: Leadership & Fundraising During Uncertain Times
- Webinar Recording: The Ultimate Guide to Investor Communication
- What Investors Want
- What is Your Investor Net Promoter Score?
- What is Your Ultimate Report? Part 1: Pacing
- What We’ve Learned From Investors About Running a Board Meeting
- Why Investors Need Your Data (and Updates)
- Why you Should Rank Your Investors
- Wrap the Year Up Right
- Y Combinator Investment Memo Template
- You Missed Your Projections. Now What?
- You Should be Asking Your Investors for Help. Here’s How.
Leadership
- [Webinar] How Your Board Can be a Secret Weapon with Matt Blumberg
- 10 Resources to Develop Your Leadership Skills
- 11 VC Thought Leaders We Keep Coming Back To
- 3 Ways to Better Support Your Portfolio Companies
- 34 Remote Team Building Ideas for Growing Startups
- 4 Actionable Steps to Improve Diversity at Your VC Fund
- 4 Takeaways From Our Webinar with Scott Dorsey
- 7 Lessons for Entrepreneurs From Naval Ravikant
- All Things Community-Led Growth with Corinne Riley of Greylock
- An Update Template for Marketing Teams
- An Update Template to Align Sales + Marketing
- Bootstrapping a Beauty Brand with Aishetu Dozie, CEO of Bossy
- Building a Calm Company with Tyler Tringas
- Building Your Personal Board of Directors
- Businesses We Can Learn From
- Defining Your VC Platform Approach Using the TOPSCAN Method
- Do You Have a Stakeholder Management Strategy?
- Focus on What Matters
- Founders, Feeling Stressed? Check Out These Posts
- How Design Can be a Competitive Advantage with Kristian Andersen of High Alpha
- How Sleep Can Make You a Better Leader
- How Starting Line Helps Founders Address Their Mental Health with Ezra Galston
- How to Nail Your First Investor Pitch with Lolita Taub & Eric Bahn
- Leaders Have Been Taking Communication Seriously
- Mike’s Note #17 — The Founders Forward + My Brother
- Mike’s Note #4 — All the Stuff I Got Wrong in 2019
- Mike’s Note #5 — Do you have a CEO coach?
- Mike’s Note #6 — The Press
- Our 7 Favorite Quotes from the Founders Forward Podcast in 2020
- Startup Leaders Should Have Mentors. Here’s How to Find One.
- Startups: Why Send Management Reports?
- The (Remote) Water Cooler
- The 23 Best Books for Startup Founders at Any Stage
- The Friday Note Challenge
- The Past, Present, and Future of VC Funding with Anne Dwane of Village Global
- The Week in Board Management — April 26th, 2021
- This Week in Company Culture — April 12th, 2021
- This Week in Founder Stories — December 2nd, 2021
- This Week in Growth — October 7th, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — April 5th, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — August 12th, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — August 19th, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — January 6th, 2022
- This Week in Leadership — November 11th, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — October 14th
- This Week in Leadership — October 21st, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — October 28th, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — September 16th, 2021
- This Week in Leadership — September 30th, 2021
- This Week in Product — June 14th, 2021
- This Week in Product — September 23rd, 2021
- Turn Your Moat into an Ocean with an Innovation Stack (feat. Jim McKelvey, Co-founder of Square)
- Webinar Recording: Leadership & Fundraising During Uncertain Times
- What SaaS Companies are Saying About Communication
- What this Founder Learned From Going Through Y Combinator 3 Times
- What We Learned From Amanda Goetz About Branding and Wellness
- What We Learned From Don Brown About Starting 6 Companies (and Successfully Exiting 3)
- When is it Time to Hit Pause?
- Why Knowing Your Circadian Rhythm Can Make You More Productive
- Why Most Accelerators Fail…and Why Yours Doesn’t Have To
Metrics & KPIs
- 3 Metrics to Track to Start Sales Enablement
- 4 Types of Financial Statements Founders Need to Understand
- 4 Ways to get to $100 Million in ARR
- 5 Tips for Starting a Podcast from Lindsay Tjepkema
- 6 Free Google Sheet Templates to Jumpstart Your Startup Reporting
- a16z Startup Metrics Template
- All Things Community-Led Growth with Corinne Riley of Greylock
- An Open-Sourced Financial Model for SaaS Startups
- An Update Template for Marketing Teams
- An Update Template for Sharing Your HubSpot Funnel Metrics
- An Update Template to Align Sales + Marketing
- Are you Measuring Product Qualified Leads?
- Are You Qualifying Leads the Right Way?
- Automatically Calculate Your SaaS Metrics with this Template
- Building A Startup Financial Model That Works
- Calculate Your Natural Rate of Growth with this Template
- Current Ratio and Liquidity Ratio
- Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC): A Critical Metrics for Founders
- Debt vs Equity Financing
- For VCs: The Best Practices for VC Portfolio Data Collection
- How SaaS Companies Can Best Leverage a Product-led Growth Strategy
- How This Founder Used SEO to Help Grow Revenue From $100k to $100M
- How to Avoid Revenue Growth Distortion
- How To Calculate and Interpret Your SaaS Magic Number
- How to Calculate Bookings
- How to Calculate Lead Velocity Rate (LVR)
- How to Calculate Net MRR
- How to Calculate SaaS MRR Churn Rate
- How to Get Started with Product Led Growth Featuring Kyle Poyar of OpenView
- How to Measure Customer Experience Better
- How to Model Total Addressable Market (Template Included)
- How to Steal the Right Growth Metrics for Your Startup
- How We Used Product Qualified Leads to Get Started with Product-Led Growth
- K Factor: What is your SaaS Company’s Viral Coefficient?
- Making Changes to Your Cash Flow Projections
- March 2020 Venture Data Report
- Marketing Scores: Measuring Your Marketing Efficiency
- Mike’s Note #10 — Natural Growth Rate
- Our 7 Favorite Quotes from the Founders Forward Podcast in 2020
- Our Guide to E-Commerce Metrics (with Google Sheet Template)
- Pull Levers in your Sales Funnel with Product Qualified Leads
- Quick Ratio Formula
- QuickBooks Integration Improvements
- Rockstart Digital Health Accelerator Startup Metrics Template
- SaaS Metrics
- SaaS Metrics Benchmarks
- Sales Development Rep (SDR) – KPIs Template
- Salesforce Updates – Contacts & Accounts
- Startups: Why Send Management Reports?
- The Founders Forward Podcast List: “The Twenty Minute VC”
- The Past, Present, and Future of VC Funding with Anne Dwane of Village Global
- The Startup Metrics That VCs Want to See
- The Ultimate Customer Retention Cohort Analysis Template for SaaS
- The Ultimate Guide to Startup Data Distribution
- This Week in Data & Metrics — June 14th, 2021
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- Top Down vs Bottoms Up Projections
- Ultimate Report Part 2: Cadence & Operational Metrics
- Ultimate Report Part 3 of 4: ARR Movements
- Ultimate Report Part 4 of 4: Marketing Demand Gen Funnel
- Unlock Your SaaS Metrics with Visible & ProfitWell
- Upside.fm Podcast: Powering Communication for Founders and Investors
- Using Variance Reporting in Visible
- Version One Ventures Marketplace Metrics Template
- Video: Formula Builder (Customer Acquisition Cost)
- Video: Shopify Ecommerce Dashboard
- Webinar Recording: 10 Finance Tips to Help With Your Next Fundraise
- What a B2B Podcasting Platform Founder Taught Us About Podcasting
- What is a Startup’s Annual Run Rate? (Definition + Formula)
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- Why Does LTV Matter?
- Why Revenue Per Lead is Really Important to Track
- Why We Love Net Promoter Score (NPS)
- Your Company’s Most Valuable Metric
- Your Startup Needs Financial Planning Now
Podcasts
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- How Sleep Can Make You a Better Leader
- How This Founder Used SEO to Help Grow Revenue From $100k to $100M
- How to Get Started with Product Led Growth Featuring Kyle Poyar of OpenView
- How to Nail Your First Investor Pitch with Lolita Taub & Eric Bahn
- How to Raise Crowdfunding with Cheryl Campos of Republic
- Introducing the Founders Forward Podcast
- Turn Your Moat into an Ocean with an Innovation Stack (feat. Jim McKelvey, Co-founder of Square)
- Wellness, Fundraising, and Design with Lex Oiller, CEO of Billbox
- What a B2B Podcasting Platform Founder Taught Us About Podcasting
- What this Founder Learned From Going Through Y Combinator 3 Times
- What We Learned From Amanda Goetz About Branding and Wellness
- What We Learned From Don Brown About Starting 6 Companies (and Successfully Exiting 3)
Product Updates
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- A + B = C -> Introducing Formulas on Visible
- A Note From our Design Team
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- April Product Improvements – Data Labels, Annotations, Goals & more
- Automate Your Fundraise with Zapier
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- Document Uploads
- Getting Started with our Slack Integration
- Hot off the press
- How and Why We Changed Our Onboarding
- Innovate, Don’t Duplicate: Why We Rebuilt Visible from the Ground Up
- Intelligent Google Sheets & Our Google Cloud Partnership
- Introducing Contact Lists
- Introducing Decks — Manage Your Raise From Deck to Check
- Introducing the Founders Forward Podcast
- Introducing the new Home section
- Introducing the Spectrum Partner Program
- Investor Platform Updates – Reports, Advisor Roles and Custom Properties
- It’s live! Update Editor 2.0
- Leaders Have Been Taking Communication Seriously
- Manage Your Next Fundraise with Visible
- Metrics Galore!
- Mike’s Note #16 — I told you this was going to happen
- New Feature: Portfolio Metric Formulas
- New Feature: Recurring Updates
- Our New Contextual Help Guide
- Personalized Updates, New Text Editor & Improved Readability
- Portfolio Charts & Custom Dashboards
- Portfolio Management: What it is and How Visible Can Help
- Product Update: Charts in Updates & More!
- Product Update: Filtering & Bulk Editing
- Q3 Product Updates
- QuickBooks Integration Improvements
- Reactions, Update Template Library, and More
- Recurring Updates – Building Better Habits
- Salesforce Updates – Contacts & Accounts
- Shameless Plug: The 97 Second Update
- Slack Your Updates
- Tear Sheet 101 (and How to Build One with Visible)
- Unlock Your SaaS Metrics with Visible & ProfitWell
- Updated Navigation + Tables in Updates
- Using Variance Reporting in Visible
- Video: Formula Builder (Customer Acquisition Cost)
- Visible 3.0 – A Note From our CEO
- Visible Connect: Introducing Our Investor Database
- Visible has a new look
- Visible Now Integrates With 1,000 Other Products
- Webinar — Leveraging the Venture Tech Stack to Source New Deals
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- Winter Wrap Up
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- Xero Integration 2.0 – Chart of Accounts
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- Your New & Improved Data Section
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- Founders — are you sharing memos?
- Get Funded: The Fundraise Tracking Tool
- I’m Giving You $50k
- January 2020 Venture Data Report
- Our 6 Favorite Blogs for Growing Your Startup
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- Picking the Best Products for Your Business
- Productivity Hack : Searching in Chrome
- Quickbooks Update Template
- The @VisibleVC Startup Fundraising Stack
- The 10 Most Popular Posts from the Visible Reading List in 2017
- The 17 Best Startup Newsletters
- The Full Stack for SaaS Client Success
- The Top Founder Forward Articles Shared in 2018
- Ultimate Guide to Currency Conversion & Consolidation
- Use Sheetgo To Consolidate Your Google Sheets Reporting
- Webinar Recap: Alternatives to Venture Capital with Tyler Tringas of Earnest Capital
- Y Combinator Investment Memo Template
Transparency
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- 6 Tips for Protecting Your Startup
- A 5 Minute Weekly Sales Update Template
- An Update Template for Marketing Teams
- An Update Template to Align Sales + Marketing
- An Update Template to Ensure You Get the Most of Your All-Hands
- Are Your Marketing Efforts Really Enabling Sales Performance?
- Build Relationships with Every Customer Using QBR Updates
- Businesses We Can Learn From
- CEO Weekly Note Update Template
- Do You Have a Stakeholder Management Strategy?
- Founders, Feeling Stressed? Check Out These Posts
- In Do Better Work, Clarity and Empathy are the Keys to Results
- Investor NPS: How likely are you to refer your current lead investor to fellow founders?
- Is Radical Transparency The Way Forward For Startup Marketing?
- Max’s Note: One of our Favorite Newsletters
- Mike’s Note # 2 — Do you sleep?
- Mike’s Note #1 — Raising too much?
- Mike’s Note #11 — A Matchmaking Experience
- Mike’s Note #13 — It is easier to change your preferred airline than it is your cap table
- Mike’s Note #6 — The Press
- Mike’s Note #9 — Acting in Bad Faith
- Ready to Embrace Transparency? Keep These 3 Things in Mind
- Startups: Why Send Management Reports?
- The (Remote) Water Cooler
- The Friday Note Challenge
- The Power of Wandering: Lessons from the 2018 Amazon Letter to Shareholders
- Themes, Not Goals – What Most Startup Leaders Get Wrong About Annual Planning
- Tit for TaaT – Leveraging Transparency to Build Better Businesses
- Use Storytelling to Increase your Price
- V2MOM: Salesforce’s Secret & Why it Works
- What SaaS Companies are Saying About Communication
- What VCs are Saying About Coronavirus and What Lies Ahead
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- Best Practices for Portfolio Management
- Building Your HR Early – Tools & Culture
- Customer Segmentation Brings Focus to Startups Ready to Scale
- Discover our Engineering Blog
- How to Determine if Your Channel Partners are Actually Working
- Introducing Contact Lists
- Introducing: Investor Letters
- Investor Letter: Enron – ask why.
- Investor Letters: BlackRock’s Larry Fink to CEOs Everywhere
- Investor Letters: Elon’s World
- Investor Letters: Jeff Bezos’ 1997 Letter to Amazon Shareholders
- Investor Letters: Mark Zuckerberg before Facebook’s IPO
- Investor Letters: Nike’s 2008 Letter to Shareholders
- Investor Letters: One Ford
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- Investor Letters: Starbucks in the Dot-Com Bust
- Investor Letters: The Etsy Economy
- Managing Investor Relationships & Updates
- Netflix IPO: A Lesson in Investor Relations from Reed Hastings
- New Feature: Portfolio Metric Formulas
- Product Hunt – 593 Days Later
- Scheduled Downtime
- SentimentVC – Sentiment Analysis on the Early Stage Market
- Shameless Plug: The 97 Second Update
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- Storytelling Lessons from Warren Buffett and Jeff Bezos
- The 5 Distrosnacks We’ve Used to Frame Our Growth Strategy
- The Q4 2015 Sentiment Index – 3 Key Questions
- The Sentiment Index – Solving Early Stage Information Asymmetry
- The Tech Investing “Software Stack”
- The World’s First Unicorn
- This Week in Fundraising — April 12th, 2021
- This Week in Fundraising — November 25th, 2021
- This Week in Metrics & Data — April 19th, 2021
- This YouTube Investment Memo Shows You the Path to the Perfect Pitch
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- Using Variance Reporting in Visible
- Webinar Recording: 10 Finance Tips to Help With Your Next Fundraise
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- What We Talk About When We Talk About Startups.
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- A Flipped Approach to Fundraising
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- Creating Momentum in Your Fundraise with Brett Brohl
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- Has Startup Capital Really Become Harder to Get?
- How We Used Product Qualified Leads to Get Started with Product-Led Growth
- How We Work: Zoom Calls
- Navigating Your Series A Term Sheet
- Onboarding New Investors? Think About These 3 Things.
- Our 9 Favorite Posts on Remote Work
- Our Guide to Investor Updates
- Q3 2019 Pro Rata Newsletter Funding Data
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- Startup Leaders Should Have Mentors. Here’s How to Find One.
- The Friday Note Challenge
- The Investor Due Diligence Checklist: How to Treat New VCs Like Business Partners
- The Supply & Demand of VC with Kenn So of Shasta Ventures
- The Top Founder Forward Articles Shared in 2018
- The Ultimate Customer Retention Cohort Analysis Template for SaaS
- Themes, Not Goals – What Most Startup Leaders Get Wrong About Annual Planning
- Total Addressable Market: Lessons from Uber’s Initial Estimates
- Understanding Power Law Curves to Better Your Chances of Raising Venture Capital
- What is Pre-Seed?
- What We’ve Learned From Investors About Running a Board Meeting
- Wrap the Year Up Right
- Y Combinator Investment Memo Template
- You Should be Asking Your Investors for Help. Here’s How.