Yan-David is a serial founder and currently a General Partner at Coatue Management. He built a simulator to help founders understand ownership, round dynamics, and possible future fundraising scenarios.

One of the best ways to know what it will be like to work with an investor is to speak with other founders who already have.

This guide takes a look at the three different ways to calculate and pitch total addressable market (TAM).

Subrata Saha is a lawyer based in Texas. He has put together a pretty comprehensive overview of dilution, how it works, and how to think about it as a founder.

In this post, Elad Gil lays out a timeline and what to expect from the fundraising process.

Leo Polovets is a Partner at Susa Ventures. He has compiled a series of blog posts detailing the inner workings of a VC fund.

This is a helpful guide for understanding the general mechanics of equity ownership.

You just closed a round of funding- now what? Here are the tactical things you need to know and do immediately after the money lands in your bank account.

Recommended reading on investors, fundraising, and venture capital.

Andy Sparks of Holloway has compiled and published a list of reference pitch decks. Find them below, or in his original post on StartupGrind here.

It’s important to approach fundraising with a clear plan to execute against. Ted Wang at Cowboy Ventures has written about three such strategies that can be helpful in different situations.

This is the last in a series of posts about fundraising from VCs. The first post explained how the various series of funding (e.g. Series A, B, C, etc.) differ from a seed round.

Cirrus Insight has compiled some example pitch decks as a reference guide.

When we onboard new companies into our partnership, we share what we call Fundraising Commandments. These are general principles founders should carry with them as they both ramp up and complete a round.

Below are some good general guidelines for an effective, streamlined pitch deck, originally put together by Sequoia Capital.