Go-to-market lessons from inside 40+ companies.

Solo founders reach our investment committee 31% of the time against 54% for teams. Once there they score about the same. What that means if you build alone.

Product-market fit meaning, in plain words: a retention curve that stops falling. How to read yours, and why a curve that falls to zero often means the wrong customers, not a bad product.

Building is nearly free, so distribution is the new moat: reaching customers first is what protects you. Ben Leblois on what BADideas.fund believes, with 7 Bad Advice clips and polls.

Nordigen co-founder Roberts Bernans spent a year on a startup he could have killed in an hour. His fix for how to make a business plan: validate fast, then pre-check your deck with our free Pitch Evaluator.

A go-to-market strategy framework for early-stage founders from operator Suhas Ghante: get buyer, pain and trust right. Plus a free AI VP of Marketing tool.

Most B2B SaaS companies enter a new market with a good product and one global message they expect to work everywhere. It often does not. Markets differ, buyers differ, and expansion needs local work.

Fundraising School ended its third year with a Demo Day on Friday, 24 October. Over 40% of the founders are already talking to investors. BADideas.fund runs it with LIAA and RITA, the Latvian and Riga investment agencies.

Fundraising School is a free programme of six weeks for pre-seed and seed founders in any industry. It is the only accelerator in Latvia that teaches only fundraising: how to approach investors, pitch and close a round.

Pleso Therapy, a European mental health platform that uses AI to match users with the right therapists, has raised €1.2 million to strengthen its presence across Europe.

Notes from seven SaaStr 2025 talks on how AI changes sales teams, and what founders should do about it.

BADideas.fund, a group of 250+ investors who helped build unicorns, has launched a €22M fund for early-stage startups.

BADideas.fund had its first exit when Five Elms Capital invested $75 million in RoomPriceGenie.

Many of our investments came to us through other VCs in the region.

Why we invested in RoomPriceGenie, pricing software for small hotels, even though its team is not from CEE.

We invested €220K in Value.Space, our largest ticket so far. It uses satellites to spot damage to dams, bridges and mines.

Breezit started selling in California in 2023. Its CEO shares seven ways US customers differ from Lithuanian ones.

At BADideas.fund we do more than invest money. Our members help our startups grow, and we learn together to become better investors.

BADideas.fund has invested €1.2M in 11 startups since April 2022, less than a year after launch.

We have seen many startup pitches. This guide collects what works, from our own experience and from well-known investors.

How founders and advisors can agree on fair advisor pay, using the FAST template from the Founder Institute.

The Estonian startup will use the new cash to triple the workforce and add functionality to the platform. This was BADideas.fund's second investment.

Breezit is our first investment: €100K in a marketplace with software for private event vendors.