TL;DR: Nine in ten funded startups won't get a venture exit, yet many are solid businesses with...
Jeffrey Lang
Bootstrapping a startup in 2026
TL;DR: Our 2024 bootstrapping advice still stands but for none of the original reasons. AI has...
The exit is the exception: what 12,000 funding rounds say about startup liquidity
Every pitch deck ends the same way. A slide titled "Exit," a logo soup of plausible acquirers, and...
Seraf Toolbox: Evaluating Board Performance – A Guide for Early Stage Companies
As a director on an early stage company board, how do you evaluate the performance of the board?...
Can You Hear Me Now? Building Great Director-CEO Communication
In our previous article Spade Work: How Early Stage Board Directors Add Value, we discussed some...
Beating the Odds: Startup Pathways to Success
As an active angel investor in the Boston tech sector, I witnessed many paths to a successful...
Practical tools to resolve conflict effectively
Understanding the role of conflict and recognizing when it becomes harmful is only part of the...
Sifting For Success – Pitching Angels In Groups
There can be tremendous advantages to working with angels in groups. The key is the speed with...
Co-founder mismatch: when conflict becomes a problem and how to solve it
Not every founder conflict is productive. The 3 red flags of founder mismatch and what investors...
To Follow-On or Not to Follow-On – That is the Question
As your angel career develops, and you start to build a larger portfolio of companies, you are...