Becoming Indifferent

In our new ‘Guide to Investing’ blog series, we’re taking you through the highs and lows investors might experience during their journey. In this blog, we talk about the importance of becoming indifferent, to help you through the highs and the lows of startup investing. In the beginning, most investors have a positive and enthusiastic…
Choose Preparedness That Comes from Passion

In our new ‘Guide to Investing’ blog series, we’re taking you through seven steps of startup investing. In this sixth blog, find out how to pick a startup to invest in. The prepared startup It’s well known that investors like passionate founders. You can figure out if someone is passionate by the way they talk…
Overestimating Yourself and the Startup

In our new ‘Guide to Investing’ blog series, we’re taking you through seven steps of startup investing. People who have successfully invested in real estate, bonds, and equity often think they will be successful at investing in startups. However, it’s an inherently different thing. If you are from the world of Price to Earning Ratios you…
Can you pick a winner? (Or perhaps you need a portfolio)

No matter what you think, you are probably not good at picking winners amongst startups. Famously, a Wall Street company specialised in asset allocation once asked a highly confident group of financial professionals to pick the best stocks from a list of companies in the newspaper. Based on their in-depth analysis – involving deep knowledge…
Video Lessons – Leapfunder’s Guide to Investing: Pre-Money & Post-Money Valuation

In our new ‘Video Lessons’ blog series we share knowledge for both startups and investors in a short video format. Welcome to Leapfunder’s guide to investing! Today we are going to talk about pre-money and post-money valuation. We hope you have enjoyed this video. Stay tuned for more knowledge. Join our network of startups & investors!…