The Rise of "Early Growth Equity": A Game-Changer for Startups
September 28, 2023
The B2B SaaS PMF Spectrum: Are You Weak, Strong, or Somewhere in Between?
September 27, 2023
Jen Abel from JJELLYFISH on Why Founders Fail to Find Product Market Fit
September 12, 2023
The Aerospace and Defense Supply Chain Technology Stack
September 06, 2023
RIP Jimmy Buffet, my Alcoholism, and Weekend Reads and Listens
September 03, 2023
Digital Detox: What I Discovered in 48 Hours Without My Phone
August 26, 2023
Smokey Robinson and Weekend Reads and Listens
August 19, 2023
Ambulatory and Home Infusion Market Map - 2023
August 17, 2023
Navigating the VC Jungle: Debunking the Myth of "Sharky Deals"
August 16, 2023
Beyond the Puffer Fish Effect: Deconstructing "Ramblings" Blog
August 14, 2023
Wedding Re-Dedications and Tragedy and Weekend Reads and Listens
August 13, 2023
The Dance of Expectations: Understanding Founder Pressures in VC
August 07, 2023
My trip to Baahstan....Weekend Reads and Listens
August 05, 2023
The Great Debate: Operators vs. Financial Analyst as VCs
July 31, 2023
Legoland on Repeat and Weekend Reads and Listens
July 30, 2023
What I Learned from the Book Fahrenheit 451
July 27, 2023
Founders are Put on the Pedestal Too Early
July 26, 2023
July 24, 2023
Boating with Friends and Weekend Reads and Listens
July 22, 2023
"Going the Distance" and Weekend Reads and Listens
July 15, 2023
Strengthening Business Relationships through Sport
July 13, 2023
The Alcoholic, Drug Addicted, Venture Capitalist
July 10, 2023
Over Romanticizing of Bootstrapped Companies
July 03, 2023
Happy 4th of July Weekend and Reads and Listens!
July 01, 2023
The Crowded World of Startup Land
June 26, 2023
Weekend Reads and Listens: Happy Fathers Day!!!
June 18, 2023
"What is Your MRR?" and Why Founders Hate that Question
June 15, 2023
Weekend Reads and Listens: Maui Wowie Trip
June 11, 2023
Decoding Value in the Digital Learning Space
June 08, 2023
What I Learned from Reading Limitless by Jim Kwik
June 07, 2023
Weekend Reads and Listens - Investing in Friendships
June 04, 2023
SaaS Landscape Observations in 2023
May 31, 2023
Over-Rotating on Short-Term Fake Signals.
May 22, 2023
May 18, 2023
Weekend Reads and Listens - minus the reads
May 14, 2023
Investor Money is Subjected to "Stupid Tax"
May 10, 2023
Weekend Reads and Listens: Mr. Mom this Weekend
April 29, 2023
Blinded by Heart: Founders RIF Paradox
April 26, 2023
Three Things I Learned from Reading "The Price We Pay"
April 24, 2023
My Takeaways from HiMSS '23: A Founder and VC's Perspective
April 20, 2023
Weekend Reads and Listens: Trying to Stay Grounded
April 16, 2023
Q1 2023 Public/Private Market Outlook
April 14, 2023
The Right Way to Think Competition in Startup Land
April 10, 2023
When Your Early Adopters Lie About Buying Your Software
April 06, 2023
The Nursing Shortage Crises: A Serious Venture Opportunity?
April 05, 2023
What I Learned from Reading "The Psychology of Money"
April 03, 2023
Weekly Reads and Listens - Generative AI
April 02, 2023
Day Casino Poker and Healthcare Tech Talk
March 30, 2023
Weekend in Vegas and The Week Ahead
March 27, 2023
Weekend Reads and Listens and Vegas Bound
March 24, 2023
The Secret to Being a Good Venture Capitalist
March 20, 2023
Deal Sourcing 101: Light on the Network? Go for the Pain!
March 15, 2023
SVB Debacle and My Trip to Agua Prieta
March 13, 2023
5-Million Raised and $1M in Revenue
March 09, 2023
March 08, 2023
Founder Bias in Finding Product Market Fit
March 03, 2023
My Failures as a Fortune Teller
March 01, 2023
Leib Bolel of Grayhawk Capital on the Venture Outlook of 2023
February 28, 2023
February 27, 2023
ICYMI: Using the Founder Energy Audit to Boost Performance
February 23, 2023
Why Founders Need a Good Fundraising Strategy
February 22, 2023
How Founders Pick Which Advice to Follow
February 20, 2023
February 16, 2023
Mistakes Founders Make at Board Meetings
February 15, 2023
The Lie Founders Tell Themselves About Selling to SMB
February 13, 2023
Why I Partnered with In Revenue Capital
February 07, 2023
February 06, 2023
The Problem with Giving Advice to Founders
January 25, 2023
January 23, 2023
IX: Investor Experience - Onboarding
January 16, 2023
The Mount Rushmore of Phoenix Tech
January 11, 2023
The VC/Operator Identity Crises
January 06, 2023
Two Lines: Failure and Real Failure and Founder Magic
January 05, 2023
Our Evolution to Outbound Sourcing
December 29, 2022
Happy Holidays from DWP Capital!
December 28, 2022
December 10, 2022
Three Things I learned After Evaluating 500 Companies in 2022
December 07, 2022
Holiday Weekend, Missed Predictions, and Caloric Surpluses
November 28, 2022
Two Deal Sourcing Strategies that Failed This Year
November 23, 2022
Nicolas Lopez of HCAP on Impact Investing and Mezz Debt
November 22, 2022
My Weekend in Agua Prieta and the Week Ahead!
November 21, 2022
Capital Stewardship and Cash Burn
November 17, 2022
Communicating with Founders is like Handling Cats
November 16, 2022
The Dominos are Tipping and Things Are Finally Making Sense
November 14, 2022
What are the Red Flags đźš©đźš© when Pitching to Investors?
November 09, 2022
Phone Addictions and Bear Markets...
November 07, 2022
Early Morning Intruder, Relative Content, and Venture Dallas
November 02, 2022
Beware of Building Products of Overstating Problems
October 31, 2022
The 6 Startup Board Member Personas
October 26, 2022
October 17, 2022
The Biggest Mistakes Investors Make
October 13, 2022
4 Ways Founders Can Manage Knock Out Risk
October 12, 2022
Why Investors Care About the "Burn Multiple"
October 10, 2022
What Investors Think When Reading a Pitch Deck
October 05, 2022
Maan Hamdan of Hexa Global Ventures on Everything HRTech
October 04, 2022
HR Tech Companies are Solving for 2021 Problems not the Future
September 29, 2022
September 28, 2022
September 26, 2022
What Game are You Playing? Valuation or Value
September 23, 2022
Famous Last Words For Investors...
September 22, 2022
How to Give Founder Feedback - The Two Lenses
September 21, 2022
September 19, 2022
The Most Important Founder Trait- Hint: Its not Vision or Tenacity
September 15, 2022
Famous Last Words "and then we can raise our Series A..."
September 14, 2022
August 29, 2022
See Ya Carlsbad- Back to Phoenix!
August 22, 2022
August 18, 2022
August 17, 2022
August 15, 2022
Bear Market Rally or Soft Landing?
August 12, 2022
The Three Most Important Parts of Building a Forecast
August 11, 2022
August 10, 2022
Death of Companies Over $7M of ARR
August 03, 2022
August 01, 2022
July 29, 2022
July 21, 2022
Deal Sourcing- Execution vs Strategy.
July 20, 2022
Inflation Data and Todays Markets
July 15, 2022
Themes I am Exploring Amid a Downturn
July 14, 2022
DWP Initial Diligence Questions
July 13, 2022
July 11, 2022
How I Sourced Two Product Hires for a Portfolio Company
July 08, 2022
Q2 Deal Stats and Some Interesting Reads/Listens
July 05, 2022
June 30, 2022
June 28, 2022
Valuations, Capital Amounts, and Sideline Money
June 21, 2022
June 20, 2022
DWP Asks a Question to the"All In Besties"
June 17, 2022
Don't Tell Me Your Capital Efficient When You're Not.
June 16, 2022
Later Phoenix! Hello San Diego!
June 15, 2022
The Three Ways VCs Come to an Investment Decision
June 09, 2022
Compounding Risk Unnecessarily
June 08, 2022
Investing in Features vs. Platforms in Early Days
June 06, 2022
Another Reminder on My Fragile Ego
June 03, 2022
Soft Stuff is the Hard Stuff: Loving Your Customer
June 02, 2022
Does Anybody Else Have Shitty Deal Flow Besides Me?
May 25, 2022
Leveraging Social to Scale Intellectual IP
May 23, 2022
May 20, 2022
May 16, 2022
Three Attributes of the Most Successful VCs
May 13, 2022
Three Biggest Risks in Early Stage Investing in 2022
May 12, 2022
Connecting Founders and Paying it Forward
May 11, 2022
DWP Did Dallas...and Saw Tons of Money
May 09, 2022
DWP at LIFT AZ (Institutional Investor Conference)
May 04, 2022
Brian Parks of Bigfoot Capital on Early Stage Debt
May 03, 2022
Great Reads on 2022 Valuations
April 29, 2022
Heading to San Diego to Deal Source and Network!
April 28, 2022
April 27, 2022
The Problem with Seed Financings- "The Party Round"
April 18, 2022
Investing in Adjacent Possibilities
April 15, 2022
The Greatest VC Hack- Expert Networks
April 14, 2022
Justin Gray of Shift Paradigm on the Problems with MarTech
April 12, 2022
Q1 2022 Valuations Contracting
April 11, 2022
Why I Hate the Term "Coachable Founder"
April 07, 2022
The Massive Pull Forward of HR Tech.
March 30, 2022
The Fallacy of Non-Market Terms.
March 25, 2022
Beware of Bull$%it Venture Fund Returns
March 23, 2022
What the Hell is Going on Connectors!?
March 21, 2022
The Three Ways I Have Won Deals
March 18, 2022
March 17, 2022
March 16, 2022
March 14, 2022
March 03, 2022
Structured Growth Equity - a Definition
February 28, 2022
February 26, 2022
February 18, 2022
Finding the Right Deal Is Frustrating
February 16, 2022
Slow Road to Product-Market Fit
February 15, 2022
The Real Real Reason I Prefer To Sit on Company Boards
February 14, 2022
February 12, 2022
3 Reasons Why SAFE Notes Can Ruin Your Company
February 08, 2022
February 05, 2022
My Investment Heuristics When Evaluating Founders
February 01, 2022
Financial Models for Early Stage Companies
January 28, 2022
What Mike Prince From Billions Taught Me About Investing
January 25, 2022
My Phone Addiction, Tech Markets, and Birthdays
January 24, 2022
Ooof- Nasdaq in Correction Territory
January 21, 2022
#StartupSD What an Incredible Trip!
January 20, 2022
January 18, 2022
Public Tech Re-Rating and Private Markets
January 17, 2022
Seed Investing Methodology in 2022
January 13, 2022
Three Non-Negotiable Founder Traits
January 11, 2022
January 10, 2022
January 05, 2022
2022 Predictions and Themes from my Annual Shareholders Letter
January 03, 2022
Breaking Down My 2022 Outlook from UBS Research
December 28, 2021
December 27, 2021
December 23, 2021
How Important is it for an Investor to Have "Skin in the Game"
December 22, 2021
Do You Want a Top Tier Network? Target Operators
December 20, 2021
December 13, 2021
DWP Capital's Technology Dinner
December 09, 2021