Managing Your Team for Success

Managing Your Team for Success Managing a startup team isn’t just about delegating tasks; it’s about steering a fast-moving ship through highly unpredictable waters. To secure that championship win and scale successfully, you have to balance aggressive...

TeamDNA™ Enhancing Your Team Journey

TeamDNA™ Enhancing Your Team Journey TeamDNA™ is designed to deliver value at multiple points in a startup’s journey—not just at launch. Here are other ways that TeamDNA™ can enhance decision-making and support at key milestones: At Application Provide a structured...

TeamDNA™ Built by Solvers

TeamDNA™ Built by Solvers The Origins of TeamDNA™ TeamDNA™ was built by Solvers—people who look at a messy human problem and think, “We can make this better if we understand it deeply enough.”Solvers are driven by sincerity—the belief that good intentions, systematic...

The Incredible Disappearing sub-$5MM Round

The Incredible Disappearing sub-$5MM Round The facts are clear: Sub-$5M rounds, once the majority of U.S. VC deals (over 70% a decade ago), have now fallen to less than half that share. Multi-stage funds are crowding out traditional seed investors by offering larger...

Entitlement Fundraising

Entitlement Fundraising Is your mental filter “could” or “should”? During the last year as the chairman of an angel group, I have been asked (paraphrased from various iterations): “Before applying, can I just pitch you first to see if you...

Startup Using the Lean Analytics Cycle

Startup Using the Lean Analytics Cycle July 23, 2024 – Ben Yoskovitz – Founding Partner at Highline Beta | Author of FocusedChaos.co I’m a huge Lean Startup fan. The concept of Build -> Measure -> Learn makes a ton of sense to me. A simple, elegant...