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Startups: Avoid These Inner-Series Mistakes When Scaling Your Business

YoungUpstarts

by Everett Harper, CEO and cofounder of Truss. Over the years, the Truss team has worked with several early-stage startups, and noticed a consistency in inter-series problems (regardless of the industry). Customer testing pinpoints which hypotheses were right, which were wrong, and sets the stage for longevity.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Our categorization is not a technical one. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Lower level of community familiarity.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. They are seeking to build companies so that they are attractive to late-stage funds.” And the late-stage global funds are swarming in, from Accel to KKR to Li Kai-Shing’s Horizon Ventures.