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People need to understand why keeping your small founding team all together in the Bay Area is the best thing you can do to give your company the chance…
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Something changed over the last few months, and founders have to deal with that. 2020-2021 will not come back easily; it was an anomaly that comes once…
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Everybody “knows” that the global conjuncture and public market performance are determining a slowdown in the US startup market. But, is it true? A…
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A startup is about growth, that's what Paul Graham used to say in one of his iconic essays. Let's see how much important growth is when you move your…
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Probably not the best way to reach out to a VC, but if you want to be effective in writing a cold email to Lombardstreet Ventures, here is what we…
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We talked about it with Sunil Pai, partner at AngelList, to better understand all the possibilities of this new "toolbox" that makes founders' life more…
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Lombardstreet Ventures' new fund is active on the market since March 2021 looking for Seed-Stage companies to invest in. We made 19 new investments in…
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Andy Su, Pry CEO, Talks About Fundraising Dynamics During YC batches Listen now (26 min) | Irene Mingozzi interviewed Pry CEO to go deeper into the fundraising process while attending a YC batch. Andy did it twice: in…
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FlutterFlow CEO talks about his experience with Y Combinator W21 batch Listen now (24 min) | The unusual story about how they got admitted to the YC batch from FlutterFlow CEO Abel Mengistu.
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Emerging trends and how in 2021, we might build a better normal.
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Reaching ramen profitability: the AirbnbsAirbnb is all the rage these days. It’s interesting to read this brief article by Paul Graham about the company's beginning and come back to the…
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Does the Bay Area Still exist? Hey everyone, It’s been a while since my last post on The Valley, but during the last couple of months, I’ve been swamped. Life in Palo Alto (wh…
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