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30 from 11 Feb 2016 to 4 Feb 2026
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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2026 1

  1. 1, 7, 30, 11, 12

2023 3

  1. The Hindsight Game
  2. Avoiding Errors in Demo Day Fundraising
  3. There Are No (Absolute) Red Flags in Venture Capital

2022 6

  1. Generative AI Might Just Save Venture Capital
  2. When to Shut Down Your Company
  3. VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy
  4. In defense of exploding term sheets
  5. The hot round fallacy
  6. A framework for choosing what to do

2021 10

  1. Pots of Gold
  2. Pro rata is a bad term
  3. 20 Years Later
  4. Why Build Toys
  5. Asymmetries in Fundraising
  6. Unbundled Capital
  7. Conflicted Capital
  8. Distributed Capital
  9. Abundant Capital
  10. Goodbye YC

2020 2

  1. Raise less money
  2. Asking questions

2017 1

  1. Fooled by experts

2016 7

  1. Why VCs sometimes push companies to burn
  2. Fundraising isn't predictable
  3. Investors and their incentives
  4. Carts without horses
  5. Bad Terms
  6. Utopia Bets / Apocalypse Bets
  7. Don't focus on the NASDAQ