Distribution Down Round Revenue 
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Sales people cost money, and when they’re not bringing in revenue, their wandering in the woods is time consuming, cash-draining and demoralizing.
VC Cafe
JUNE 10, 2022
While these prices are still high compared to what we see in Israel, Investors have putting a stronger focus on revenue growth (and in particular startups that can reach substantial revenue targets) especially before series A. That’s why Bessemer ventures coined a new term, reflecting that revenue is king.
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
OCTOBER 7, 2012
He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet. Lori quickly pointed out some problems with the product; it will be hard to move down stairs and it doesn’t wheel easily. They won a design award at a trade show, but have no revenue and no orders. The entrepreneur was clearly desperate.
VC Cafe
JANUARY 2, 2023
Sector funding distribution according to Greenfield Partners. Down rounds, especially for growth stage companies, and bridge rounds galore. We started to see down rounds taking place especially in growth stage. Israeli public tech companies saw market cap decline of 65% in 2022. ” Fred Wilson.
NZ Entrepreneur
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
For example, “How will unit cost affect our capital requirements and how will product pricing affect revenue?” It isn’t good enough to just say ‘what does halving my revenue do to the business?’ This is more important to startups that are in the pre-revenue phase, when products are under development.
Growthink Blog
MAY 23, 2011
This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. With this capital, the company propels itself to $50 million+ in revenues, and to either a sale to a strategic acquirer or to an initial public offering.
NZ Entrepreneur
JULY 8, 2019
I waited for the ‘casino-like’ world of startup investing until I was 28 years old, putting $10,000 into a friend’s software distribution company – a tidy sum for me at that age. Soon after that first investment, I started my first business, and am now on my fifth (all $1m+ in revenue, but not all ‘successful’).
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