Now that you know about when to raise and how much to raise, the next natural question is how much stakes should you dilute or retain for that matter. Your intuitive mind might say that this is an outcome of how much you are raising and your valuation, but the truth is that more often than not it is the other way round - valuation is the outcome of how much you raise and how much you dilute. Therefore, it is imperative for founders to decide how much stakes they must retain a

B y now you must have framed up your mind on whether to invest in startups or not. Now, let’s try to understand how you can frame your investment strategy. There’s no 1 winning strategy per say, but we’ve created some rules of thumb to help you make up your mind: Do you have any domain or functional expertise? Answering this question will help you to understand which sectors you should explore for investing. Domain expertise translates into Hard Knowledge , i.e. knowing in-de

How many times have we seen on Shark Tank that founders end up choosing an investor, whose deal is worse in terms of valuation, but much...