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When VC funding is drying up, tech founders should take 3 key steps to adapt and survive. First, assess your product against market changes. Second, review and optimize your capital expenditures. Third, explore alternative funding streams.

With the market experiencing a sharp slowdown, many companies have to deal with a dark spot in their equity story: a lower valuation than the previous round. In this article, we look at how to deal with this delicate situation.

We recently had our 2023 annual general meeting at 186 Ventures. Here are the top 5 trends that we believe will shape the year 2024 in venture capital.

Your pitch deck is your main fundraising material. Yet it's often riddled with mistakes. We’ve identified the important and common pitfalls and, more importantly, how to sidestep them to ensure your deck isn’t just seen but remembered.

Building a pitch deck sucks. Can we make it easier with AI? I tested 13 AI pitch deck builders for you, so you don't have to.

“Managing to margin” - the margin must be protected at all costs. Flex all other levers to defend the margin. This principle is as applicable to your business as it has been to Transdigm and their wild success.

Beyond the fundamentals of seed investing, how can investors identify the outliers? This post explores the "idiosyncratic phenomenon" as a key concept in the VC decision-making process.