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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

The Investment Readiness Level (IRL) The collective wisdom of venture investors (including angel investors, and venture capitalists) over the past decades has been mostly subjective. Or the founder, or the product, or the market – no metrics can measure those intangibles. We call this the Investment Readiness Level. .

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz.