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My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC

Both Sides of the Table

B2C Companies We talked about how some companies saw an immediate decline in purchasing (for example if you’re in travel or hospitality). Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. This is not a 2-month v-shaped correction.

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Denouement

View from Seed

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. 2020 and Beyond?

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How to Build a Product Launch Strategy

ConversionXL

Many founders assume if they build a great product or service, people will flock to it. They began with 2,015 monthly downloads in September 2020. It’s common for new products or early-stage startups to lack sufficient quantitative data to see meaningful themes or patterns. That’s rarely the case. Conclusion.

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Denouement

Agile VC

But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Secondary transaction liquidity also starts to become a reality for founders and early investors. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. 2020 and Beyond?

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.