Dana Ashworth

Founders who raise on the calendar's schedule instead of their milestones close worse deals.

Meet the six types of investors funding venture capital firms.

Understanding how GPs draw capital and LPs get paid back.

Document your deal terms, cap table, and metrics now before memory fades.

Strategy without execution wastes automation; define your goal before choosing tools.

Founders confuse dashboards built for themselves with ones built for investors.

Higher rates squeezed venture through valuations, LP behavior, deal terms, and exits all at once.

Why corporate venture funds behave so differently from traditional VCs.

Bay Area VC share rebounded to 48% as AI mega-rounds reversed geographic dispersion.

AI saves analysts weeks per deal by automating the document grunt work that buries memo production.

Explore which AI tools actually cut diligence time and which combinations fit your deal flow.

How much capital to reserve for follow-ons versus new deals shapes a fund's entire strategy.

Neglecting back office infrastructure turns clean spreadsheets into LP crises.

Understand each investor's incentives to filter conflicting advice into decisive action.

Founders must track investor reporting obligations that outlast every funding round.

Get the legal and structural decisions right before you raise a single dollar.

Five frameworks founders use to defend seed-stage valuations.