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Carta reports that 20% of the rounds in 2023 were downrounds, but I believe the actual number is much higher. For that and other reasons (like cash preservation) VCs moved to focus more on earlier stage, and many funds that typically invest in A started deploying more into seed rounds.
Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and productdevelopment issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.
Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and productdevelopment issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.
It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.
In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer productdevelopment, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Alexia Tsotsis: Are you seeing downrounds because the NASDAQ is down?
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