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Haystack VII
Announcing our newest fund and some team updates
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Tools & Platforms in 2023
What building blocks are entrepreneurs picking up these days?
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Software Startup Heuristics
What are the common models for company creation in the enterprise?
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Refocusing
There is a company in the Haystack portfolio that raised a seed round at the tail end of last year.
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Minimum Viable Raise
I was recently with a friend who has been a seed investor for the good part of the last decade.
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The liquidation preference
Why should I care?
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Gyrations
Making sense of the market in early 2022
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Shopping Spree
In the coming months and years, I suspect we will see increased M&A activity move through the technology industry.
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Full stack startups, revisited
About a decade ago, Chris Dixon and Balaji Srinivasan popularized the idea of “full stack startups.” The premise was that as software moved from an…
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Dealing with a hangover
We have unicorns. We have other various animal-themed nomenclature for high growth businesses.
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The Story Behind Haystack's Investment in Bench IQ
In the late summer of 2023, our friends at Lazer Technologies (thank you Zain and Arif!) messaged us about meeting their friend Jimoh Ovbiagele. Jimoh…
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Areas of Interest, March 2021
I used to write more posts or essays covering ideas, trends, and themes that were compelling to me in the moment.
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