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This is a guest article by . He teaches VC and PE classes at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and leads the Stanford GSB's Venture Capital Initiative. He publishes venture capital research, investor rankings and fundraising guides for founders in

Stanford GSB Professor of Finance. Venture Capital & Private Equity. Co-author of The Venture Mindset. 5,000+ Stanford students - including unicorn founders and VC/PE fund managers - have taken my classes.

Two founders fill out the same AWS application on the same afternoon.One gets $1,000 in credits. The other gets $300,000.The difference is a single field. One of them had an investor add the fund ID.Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI all gate their

The hard part of a raise is rarely the pitching. It is building the list.Weeks of Crunchbase tabs and half-updated portfolio pages, then 200 emails to discover most of those firms stopped writing checks in 2024.The VC CornerThe VC Corner is where founders

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The hiring playbook everyone is still running was written for a market that closed in 2022.

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Rick Rubin played guitar in a punk band as a teenager. His own word for how he played: rudimentary.That was the ceiling of his musical ability, and it stayed there.Then look at the credits: Johnny Cash, Jay-Z, Eminem, The Strokes, four decades of records

Every founder knows how to raise equity.Almost nobody works the money that costs no equity at all.SBIR grants. The EIC Accelerator. R&D tax credits. Cloud credits worth six figures. The programs exist, the budgets are allocated, and a large share goes unc