The Other Dating Game

The Other Dating Game You know this night is important, and so naturally you want to look your best. You spend hours and hours primping nervously, going over every last inch, and every last detail, making sure that you make the best first impression you possibly can. Usually you aren’t nervous for first meetings. You know […]

Optimizing your Product Org

Scaling to $20MM Series: Optimizing your Product Org Scale.  For founders, this is either something for which you excitedly yearn or it’s keeping you up at night. In a world in which most boards and investors aren’t exactly patient, most really need to get it. And while there are plenty of startups who have figured […]

15 Common Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Capital and How to Avoid Them

15 Common Mistakes Founders Make When Raising Capital and How to Avoid Them Having spent over a decade as an investor hearing pitches from almost a thousand founders, I’ve been fortunate to come across many founders who are amazing visionaires with a real penchant for identifying opportunities and then pouncing on them. However, when it comes […]

The Closing of SVB: Lessons for Founders

The Closing of SVB: Lessons for Founders Who would have thought that one of the banking mainstays in the U.S., an institution with over $200B in assets, would suddenly close without barely any notice. What happened two weeks ago with SVB is an awful reminder of just how challenging entrepreneurship can be. Fortunately, the federal government […]

What’s in a Name? Here’s What’s in Ours

What’s in a Name? Here’s What’s in Ours Whenever we introduce our business as 82i, people inevitably ask us how we got our name, and what the ‘i’ in our logo stands for.It all started with an idea. Actually, it started with 1,000 of them.  In his previous role at a growth equity firm, our founder […]