VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Mature startups with proven business models and the potential to reach the public markets within a few years will be the safest place to park any new venture capital that comes into the ecosystem. Two weeks ago in San Francisco, a conversation with tech lawyers from the US and Europe was a confirmation of what I read in the news.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3]

Term Sheet 68

Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

They need to be relentless in their pursuit of identifying and tracking metrics across all aspects of their business. The more visitors you bring to your website the greater your potential to derive revenue from them regardless of your business model, and without costs growing in proportion. They are in build mode after all.

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Metrics Nigeria Ratchet Churn Rate 68

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

He summarized that conversation well, so rather than re-tread that material, Ill quote it here: One thing that I was surprised to learn was that IMVU started out with continuous deployment. Initially, IMVU sought to quickly build a product that would prove out the soundness of their ideas and test the validity of their business model.

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San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review Lean 131