Practical reads on investor relations, fundraising, and the work between rounds.
Most fund-ops platforms are built for a firm with a back office. Here's what a micro-VC — one to three people, ten to fifty portfolio companies — should actually be evaluating instead.
LPs didn't back you because you look like a $500M fund. Here's why performing scale is the wrong instinct — and what actually earns trust from a one- or two-person fund.
You owe your LPs a clean quarterly report. You're building it from updates that arrive late, in five formats, from founders who don't report to anyone else. Here's the actual fix.
A founder's numbers can look fine and still be quietly wrong. Here's the accrual-ratio check professional funds use to catch it, and why most micro-VCs never run it.
The system that worked fine for five companies doesn't fail gradually past ten. It breaks in a specific, predictable order. Here's what goes first, second, and third.
A sent update and a kept record are not the same thing. The gap between them is where founder time and investor trust both leak away.
Almost every founder starts with a detailed first update, then goes quiet within six months. Here's why it happens — and what the silence quietly costs you at your next raise.
Most early-stage founders don't have a finance stack — they have a spreadsheet their CA built. Here's how to send credible, structured investor updates straight from it, in fifteen minutes a month.
Most angels run their portfolio on a spreadsheet, a Drive folder, and a dozen email threads. Here's what that setup quietly breaks — and what tracking a portfolio actually looks like.
Most early-stage founders run investor relations on email, Drive, and a spreadsheet. Here's where that stack quietly fails — and what to use instead.
Most founders guess what to put in their monthly investor update. Here's what angels are actually looking for — and why it's simpler than you think.
If you searched for Quantro Network and landed here, you're in the wrong place — but maybe the right one. Here's the difference, in plain English.
Most founders send investor updates and hear nothing back. Here's why — and what actually gets angels to reply.
Structured updates, a data room, and portfolio reporting — for the founders who send updates and the investors who read them.
