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Chronic Under-financing of EU Start-ups Driven by Mindset

Babbling VC

We keep hearing about lean start-ups and how much costs have dropped when launching and growing a business. Even if they enter with a low 2 or 3 million round, they are easily able to scale the business quickly with additional capital. At the same time, businesses in Europe have always been forced to make do with less.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. portfolios.