Remove 2000 Remove Demand Remove PR Remove Warrant
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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

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For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. I do not endorse raising $5 million for a business that doesn’t yet warrant it. They get the PR bump. How much dilution am I going to have to take now?

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Too much PR, too early.