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

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

-Offers a private label service that allows campus book retailers to offer an online rental model; serves 1.3mm to-date. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues]. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia.