This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. What follows in this story is pretty laughable: ".venture

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

He’s dubbed the approach “ pretotyping ,” and it shares many of the same principles as both its similar-sounding (if later-stage) cousin, prototyping, as well as the more well-known lean startup movement. ” So I left Google to do another startup, Agitar Software. Another success.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Later stage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”.

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OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

We all knew if the feature or function that the client was asking for was within the realm of the possible. • We were very, very focused on creating customers and revenue —We were a startup. If we drove revenue above costs, we got to take home a salary. You’ll build custom code for certain clients.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how to define your ABM strategy so you can target the right accounts and increase your revenue. Think of it as a filter that helps you find the highest chance of return on investment, revenue potential, and profitability. Cloud-based data warehouse Snowflake had an ambitious goal to triple its revenue.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Noah describes this as this idea of like if you’re early stage you need some money to get off the ground. Maybe a later stage business might need some money for working capital and that kind of thing. Peter: I think one very optional bullet here is the funding needs. Jonathan: Yeah. I’ve got this covered completely.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 11, 2020

For example, about six months into his time as CEO, he got up at five in the morning to review the numbers and saw something he didn’t understand. When a company no longer has active co-founders, the professional managers running it will focus on business metrics — EBITDA, revenue, CAC, LTV — business-oriented MBA stuff.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I know it sounds obvious but just so you understand: There are more capital sources available for earlier-stage capital, the information on which they are evaluating the investment is less (it is almost certainly just team and product) and the risk of the investor getting things wrong is diminished. You are in a classic cap table pinch.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. iOS App Store revenue still dwarfs Google Play’s, but the challenger is catching up fast. ” On a micro level, failure is always painful.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” These days revenue is the best source of capital. Who is on your board of directors?

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. Who knows.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

You might notice what’s not on that list above: revenue, investors. No revenue isn’t always a problem for venture-style businesses; no investors + no revenue = challenges for most founders without tremendous self-funding. swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t in English or in Spanish?—?as

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups. Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. software” and “deeptech”), and so on.

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