Sitemap - 2025 - The VC Corner

Is the MVP Dead? Rethinking Lean Startup Strategies

YC's Handshake Deal Protocol🤝, The Generative AI Winners of 2025 🤖, Redefining Independent Media📰

The 100+ Pitch Decks That Raised Over $2B 💰

Survivorship Bias Is Killing Founders' Judgment—Here’s the Fix

Startups That Are Actively Fundraising Right Now

CLTV vs CAC Ratio: The One Metric That Can Make or Break Your Startup (+ Excel Model)

The Ultimate Open-Source AI Agent Directory

Inside OpenAI🧠, Karpathy’s YC Talk🎥, How AI Companies Actually Build Moats 🏰

Cap Table at Series A & B: What Every Founder Must Know + Excel Template

Most Founders Struggle to Show Product-Market Fit. This Free Template Makes It Easy

This SaaS Financial Model Has Raised Millions

State of AI 2025🤖, Biggest Fundraisers💰, Build Distribution💌

6 GitHub Repositories Every AI Builder Should Bookmark in 2025

Stop Wasting Hours on Spreadsheets. Steal These 8 Templates Instead

The Growth Loop Playbook Top Startups Actually Use

OpenAI’s Product Lead Reveals the New Playbook for Product-Market Fit in AI Startups

10 Best Venture Capital Books Recommended by Top VCs

Spray & Pray vs. High-Conviction🤔, Peter Thiel: AI or Bust🧨, Global VC Pulse Check🌍

10 Startup Fundraising Scams to Know (and How to Avoid Them)

How to Talk to Investors: What to Say (and Avoid) in Your First VC Meeting

The Dark Side of the 9-9-6 Work Culture⏰, AI's Impact on SaaS Growth🤖, VCs Are Rethinking Deal Sourcing🔍

Founder-Market Fit: The #1 VC Filter You Didn't Know Was Judging You

Acquihires Season Is Officially Here🤝, VCs Are Pivoting🧟‍♂️, McKinsey’s Agentic AI Playbook🕹️

Why 2025 Is the Best Year to Start a Startup

How to Evaluate a Startup’s Exit Potential: Signs, Metrics, and Red Flags

How to Find Product-Market Fit: A Proven Guide for Startup Founders

The Founders Fund Story🔥, YC Investing Patterns📊, AI in the Enterprise🔍

Startup Valuation Methods: 8 Approaches Investors Use

The Startup MIS Template: A Excel Dashboard to Track Your Key Metrics

Musk, Trump, and the VCs Picking Sides ⚔️, Thoma Bravo’s Record $34.4B Fundraise💸, VCs Are Funding 2 Things💡

The Go-To Pricing Guide for Early-Stage Founders + Toolkit

10 Questions to Expect During a First Call With a VC

DCF Valuation Method Template: A Practical Guide for Founders and Growth-Stage Startups

AI Eats the World🤖, Trouble for New VCs💀, The IPO Market Is Stirring📉

How Founders Can Thrive in VC 3.0: The AI Era of Startup Funding

How Much Are Your Startup Stock Options Really Worth?

The Startup Founder’s Guide to Venture Debt: Terms, Timing & Risks

How VCs Value Startups: The VC Method + Excel Template

Mega Funds Were Right🐘, VC’s New Blood Is Drying Up🩸, Global Tech Hubs Ranked🌍

The Deeptech Stack: AI, Climate & Bio Startups in 2025

VC Fund Database for Early-Stage Startups: 200+ Funds Under $200M Still Actively Investing

300+ VCs That Accept Cold Pitches — No Warm Intro Needed for Funding in 2025

Cap Table Mastery: How to Manage Startup Equity from Seed to Series C

How AI-Generated Search Is Changing SEO in 2025—and What You Can Do About It

Substack CEO Chris Best on 5M Paid Subscriptions, Creator Ownership & the Future of Publishing

Barriers to Entry in VC🚧, Rise of the AI Wrappers🤖, Google's AI Future Report 🔮

2,500+ Angel Investors Backing AI & SaaS Startups💰

15 Years, No IPO: Startup Red Flag or Quiet Power Move?

AI Is Eating VC📉, Most-Active US Investors💵, Longevity Tech Rebounds🧬

How to Find Investors for Your Startup (And Actually Get Funded)

The Lean Startup is Dead⚰️, AGI Delusion?🤖, Top Leadership Books📚

How Early Wins Can Become Missed Fortunes in the Pro-Rata Trap

Turning ChatGPT Prompts into Profitable Startups: How AI-Generated Ideas Are Creating the Next Wave of Founders

89 Best Startup Essays by Top VCs and Founders (Paul Graham, Naval, Altman, Khosla & More)

The Agentic Revolution: How AI Agents Will Reshape Software, Startups, and Work

AI Is Coming for Venture Firms 🤖, Most Active VCs and CVCs📊, Anthropic’s Blueprint for Smarter AI 🛠️

He Spent $40K Building Features No One Wanted — What Every Founder Can Learn

Tariffs are Killing Your Next VC Round📉, Google’s 2025 Prompt Playbook📘, Founders Fund $4.6 Bn Fund💸

Why Starting With Solutions Always Fails

What Building a Startup Really Looks Like: A Brutally Honest 10-Year Map 👀

Seed Strapping vs. Boot-Scaling🛠️, AI Agents and Game Theory🤖, AI Index Report 2025🔍

50 Game-Changing AI Agent Startup Ideas for 2025

How Trump’s 2025 Tariffs Could Reshape Startups

Smaller Funds Outperform📈, When Machines Learn to Speak🗣️, Venture Trends Q1 2025📊,

How the Tariff Surge Is Rewriting the Playbook for Global Tech Startups

The Ultimate Startup Data Room Template (VC-Ready & Founder-Proven)

Non-Dilutive Funding: How to Grow Without Losing Control

How Money Flows 🌊, Chamath’s $380M Loss🤯, VCs Eating PE with AI🔀

🔑 Key Startup Metrics VCs Care About: How to Track, Improve & Use Them to Raise Capital

🌱 Seed Strapping: The Smarter Startup Funding Strategy Founders Are Turning To

AGI Vibes Are Getting Weird, 2025 SaaS Valuations, Most Active Angels

The Billion-Dollar Startup Formula: Why AI-Driven Small Teams Are Beating Giants

Is SaaS Dying for Good? A Look at How AI Is Reshaping the Future of Software

How to Win as a Solopreneur, Software Moats Are Dead, VC Tax Loopholes

February 2025 Startups Raising Capital

The End of YC, Why Specialists Will Win the Next Decade of Venture, Foundation Model Businesses

400+ Seed VCs Backing Startups in the US & Europe 💰

Founders: Are You Raising Enough? Or Too Much? Here’s the Tool You Need

How Two European Founders Raised $4M, Secured a Microsoft Deal, and Broke Into Silicon Valley

How to Craft an Elevator Pitch That Hooks Investors & Lands Funding

The Hard Questions Most VCs Can’t Answer, The Flawed Math of Venture at Scale, IPO Preparation Guide

SAFE Note Dilution: How to Calculate & Protect Your Equity (+ Cap Table Template)

The Rise of the Agentic Workforce🤯, It’s Time for Europe to Stand Up 📢, 100+ Gen. AI Use Cases You Should Know 🔍

The January 2025 Fundraising List

The Venture Capital Playbook

Revenue Per Employee: SaaS vs. VC 📊, YC's Returns by Sector✨, Canva’s $2 Billion Sales Funnel 🛍️

144 Family Offices That Cut Pre-Seed Checks

The Venture Capital Apocalypse

Founder Ownership in VC-Backed Companies📊, The Fund of Funds Fallacy❌, Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Booming🏗️

The Ultimate SaaS Financial Model

How to Find and Validate Profitable Startup Ideas (Step-by-Step Guide + YC’s Proven Framework)

How to Trick Investors & VCs 🤫💰

234 Tech European Conferences in 2025

The Race for AI Supremacy is Over🏁, State of VC and Its Impact on DPI📉, SaaS VC Trends☁️

DeepSeek R1: The AI Disruption No One Saw Coming

AI Is Vertical 🤖, Why Agentic AI Could Be Doomed to Fail🤔, State of Marketing 📢

The Ultimate Venture Capital Database 🌟

How to Launch Your Product on Product Hunt: A Step-by-Step Framework for Success

What Venture Capitalists Look for in Startups

Vertical SaaS: Now With AI Inside, B2C is Back, AI Agents Landscape

The Broken Venture Capital System, Chinese VCs failed founders blacklist, AI-Powered Investment Memo Generator

The Product-Market Fit Guide: How to Achieve PMF 🔑

Revenue Retention or Bust 📊, Why Venture GPs Keep Going Solo🧑‍💼, CVC Units Closed in 2024 📉