The Promus Ventures DeepTech Growth Index
Launching a new stock index that tracks market multiples, metrics, and share price performance of leading DeepTech public companies.
The Secret of Distributed Teams
San Francisco-based Sqwiggle recently announced its seed round fundraising and we’re excited to be an investor. It also was AngelList’s first “Syndicates” deal, and 30% of the $1.1M round was raised through this new tool for angel investors on the AngelList platform.
The Startup Table (Get Your Folks Together Often)
As we wind down the year and people go their separate ways to celebrate the holidays, ask yourself this: does your entire team meet often to discuss mission, vision and goals? If not, this should be a New Year’s resolution high on the list.
There Is No Formula (You Can’t Build Someone Else’s Startup)
At Promus Ventures, one of our favorite questions we ask founders is not “What are you building?” but “Why are you building?” As the saying goes, it all starts at the beginning. If your eyes don’t light up and your body leans in when asked why you are building what you are building, then it will be
There’s a Hole in That Road (10 Common Pitfalls for Startups)
There’s a great saying that describes going down a path that will only yield bad results: “There’s a hole in that road.” So, please, for the love of startups all over the world, avoid doing these common things that we at Promus Ventures see all the time!
Threadloom
Interest-based content discovery platform. Acquired by VerticalScope in 2021.
Three Easy Routines That Founders (and VCs) Should Do To Give Them an Macro Edge
The startup world is one where it’s easy to miss the forest through the trees. Starting something from nothing is extremely difficult, and the time and detail it takes in raising capital, coding, talking to customers, and hiring a team in the early days is immense.
Top 15 Most Ridiculous Startup Phrases
Every industry has its impressive panoply of words that somehow become basic nomenclature. Startupland has its doozies, and here are the ones at the top of my list.
Top Ten Worst Email Inbound Lines
Tenacity is a good thing — we don’t receive because we don’t ask, so being a squeaky wheel is a good thing…to a point. “Squeaky” soon turns into “Annoying” which quickly turns into “Desperation” (and brings much hilarity in the process).
