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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And so on down then line. and profits!

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Take Five – how shut are the venture markets right now?

VC Cafe

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. With over 1,000 global unicorns (and about 1.5 OpenView report on Product Led Growth.

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10 Rosh Hashanah Resolutions for Startup Founders

VC Cafe

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Team, product, market. What matters most?

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The Collapse of the VC Ecosystem & What It Will Look Like Post.

Altgate

Growth stage investors are usually the Series B or C investors who come in when the product is in the market but there is little or no revenue and the team is probably in the 20-something range with the goal to ramp it up to 40-50 employees with the new money, build out a sales team, etc. But some will be saved.

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Advice for startups in a downturn (May 2022 Edition)

VC Cafe

Rising inflation and interest rate hikes, growth in debt to GDP ration, the war in the Ukraine (and global instability), increases in prices of energy, changing consumer habits to a post Covid-19, supply chain issues, etc, might be all contributing factors to the stock market (and tech in particular) declines. Down rounds are coming.