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Fundraising Debt And How To Avoid It

YoungUpstarts

It has become an established term in the software industry to indicate the short term fixes of quick and dirty coding that can create problems down the road — problems that come knocking at the door to collect with interest. Founders need seed capital to get their operations up and running, and to begin generating revenue.

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Is the Lean Startup concept of MVP dead?

VC Cafe

In fact, they were screaming at them to dramatically reduce their burn rates. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital.” In a capital scarce environment following the Dot Com crash, startups needed to do more with less and survive long enough to generate revenue. Cash (alone) isn’t king.

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