Posts by Tatev Aslanyan

Most VC conversations focus on the GP-founder relationship. But the LP-GP relationship is equally consequential — and equally misunderstood. Here is what limited partners are actually evaluating when they commit capital to a fund.

European venture capital has matured enormously over the past decade. But the most important gap is not about capital volume — it is about what kind of capital Europe is building, and who gets to build it.

Due diligence in venture capital is broken. We ask founders to justify their TAM but rarely ask the questions that actually predict whether a company will survive. Here is what better diligence looks like.

Venture capital is widely misunderstood — not just by outsiders, but by the very founders who seek it. Here is what most founders get wrong, and how to approach the relationship differently.