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Week-by-week breakdown of my $15M virtual fundraising journey in 2020 The lessons I learned from my 12-week Series A fundraising process Building a strong foundation When I say it took us 12 weeks to close our Series A, I’m not counting thefundamental projectsthat I’ve been working on constantly with my co-founder, our board, and our leadership team ever since we completed the Techstars accelerator program five years ago. At its core, fundraising is still about convincing investors that they’ll earn a strong return by investing in your company....

WeeNudgeis a new website with a growing collection of resources to help web designers talk their clients down off the edge when they’re requesting bad changes. Client wants you to cram everything ‘above the fold‘? With WeeNudge you can show them that users do know how to scroll. Client wants to decimate thewhitespacegiving the design a sense of composition? The site will explain why whitespace may be an evil in print from a business perspective, but is no issue online....

Europe is facing an energy crisis thanks to low wind-power generation, broken connections that allow electricity to be shared across nations and shrinking nuclear energy sources. The UK has responded by burning more gas to produce electricity — but gas prices are ata record high. The result is that wholesale electricity costs are at theirhighest levels in years, and this is having a knock-on effect for anything that uses electricity....

Brands are taking greater control of their communication with the public, making the intermediates, like magazines obsolete. Today, brands publish their own content and interact one to one with their customers through their social media accounts or custom made communities. Branded communities have evolved from simple forums to complete ecosystems, enriched with social features and unique content. Let’s take a look at how brands successfully make use of their online communities....

Close your eyes. Shut them nice and tight. Now, imagine, if you will, a tropical island populated only by crypto enthusiasts… Open your eyes.What have you done? Cryptoland is real — and itcanhurt you. Also, it can scam you out of quite a bit of cash. This crypto island project first gained public attention witha video that can only be described as unhingedanda Molly White Twitter thread. In the video, a pitch for buying stakes on the island via NFTs rubs shoulders with an animated video that seems closer to a crypto satire than a sales pitch....