Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

Missed milestones de-motivate the team, unrealistic financial projections will put you in crisis with investors, and you find you need to double every product development timeframe when talking to sales and marketing. The other side of this coin can be equally disastrous; the change of direction based on every customer or investor comment.

Advisory Board 240

Advisory Board Forecast Early Stage Product Development 240

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

Missed milestones de-motivate the team, unrealistic financial projections will put you in crisis with investors, and you find you need to double every product development timeframe when talking to sales and marketing. The other side of this coin can be equally disastrous; the change of direction based on every customer or investor comment.

Advisory Board 232

Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 232

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2010

Missed milestones de-motivate the team, unrealistic financial projections will put you in crisis with investors, and you find you need to double every product development timeframe when talking to sales and marketing. The other side of this coin can be equally disastrous; the change of direction based on every customer or investor comment.

Advisory Board 125

Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 125

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. The State of Flexible VC. Early liquidity.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit. Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. You say, “Market Type affects your spending and sales ramp after you reach product/market fit.&#

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219