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Mar 31, 2025 | 
ehandbook.com | Nathan Beckord
How to succeed in entrepreneurship; feat. founder stories, design articles, and startup deep dives that inspire your entrepreneurial journey. Follow publicationAnd How to Answer ThemRaising venture capital is tough. Investors don’t just write checks for cool ideas — they back scalable businesses with real traction, strong teams, and a clear path to big outcomes. Yet, too many founders walk into investor meetings unprepared for the hard questions that will ultimately decide whether they get funded.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nathan Beckord
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Nathan Beckord
By Nathan BeckordBrad Porter boasts an impressively long and successful career, but he’s still actively learning and refining his approach to raising capital. Brad’s 30-year career highlights include deploying over 500,000 robots as the vice president and distinguished engineer of robotics at Amazon, as well as accelerating robotics as CTO of Scale AI.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
msn.com | Nathan Beckord
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Nathan Beckord
By Nathan BeckordDavid Zhou is a busy guy. As the head of investor relations at Alchemist, a San Francisco-based venture fund and accelerator focused on enterprise startups, David manages the operation’s limited partner (LP) relationships. He has plenty to do. Since its founding in 2012, Alchemist has accelerated over 650 startups—including LaunchDarkly, Privacera, and MoEngage—that have collectively raised over $3.9 billion in capital.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
allbusiness.com | Nathan Beckord
So you want to manage a VC fund. The first question Samir Kaji wants to ask you is Are you sure? It’s not a statement meant to gatekeep VC, but rather to acknowledge the difficulties that come with starting out in venture capital. Seasons come and go where it becomes in vogue to be a fund manager. As much as it might look like a “get rich quick” scheme when the market is hot, it’s really a “get rich slowly over time if you put in the work” plan. Samir has seen several such seasons.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Nathan Beckord
By Nathan BeckordSo you want to manage a VC fund. The first question Samir Kaji wants to ask you is Are you sure? It’s not a statement meant to gatekeep VC, but rather to acknowledge the difficulties that come with starting out in venture capital. Seasons come and go where it becomes in vogue to be a fund manager. As much as it might look like a “get rich quick” scheme when the market is hot, it’s really a “get rich slowly over time if you put in the work” plan. Samir has seen several such seasons.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
medium.com | Nathan Beckord
Nathan Beckord·Follow5 min read·Aug 19, 2024--Some of the smartest investors once sat on the entrepreneur’s side of the table. This is the story of one such investor. Zach Coelius has played in almost every part of the startup funding world. He likes to use the metaphor of a Roman gladiator arena: Entrepreneurs are the gladiators, facing the toughest battles, and venture capitalists are the spectators taking bets on who will win.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
medium.com | Nathan Beckord
Nathan Beckord·Follow5 min read·Aug 12, 2024--A lot of advice on raising capital will sound similar: Get your stats together, make a pitch deck, and hit the pavement to network, network, network. And for the majority of companies, that’s effective. For Ben Lamm, that’s how he raised capital for his first five ventures. But what if you’re raising for a company that won’t have a 10x return in two years? What if your company is poised to bring wooly mammoths and dodo birds back from extinction?
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
allbusiness.com | Nathan Beckord
While some may have said there wasn't room in the market for another mac and cheese product, that didn't matter to serial entrepreneur Jen Zeszut. In November 2021, Jen and her co-founders entered the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry with a bang, disrupting the great mac and cheese duopoly with their new noodle option, Goodles. Because even though mac and cheese is beloved by kids and adults alike, there were only two major players in the market at the time.
