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Pitch Deck Month: “Is It Working?” (aka the “Traction” Slide)

View from Seed

At NextView we invest across the spectrum of seed stage companies so roughly 1/3rd of the companies we invest in are pre-product, roughly 1/3rd are post-product but pre-revenue, and perhaps 1/3rd have some very early revenue. You’re obviously not showing charts of user growth, number of customers, or revenue.

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue. Capital resources alone don’t do the trick. ” The Lean Startup movement started out of necessity. Cash (alone) isn’t king.

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