Customer Demand IPO Seed Money 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. One of them is profitability.
The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 20, 2014
With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. Talking to customers doesn’t seem very difficult but learning how to intuitively ask open questions, deviate from a script and synthesise the information gathered takes practice.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 17, 2017
I want to understand how many units the company is selling, whether this is increasing over time and how well they’re doing at retaining the customers that they do acquire. Do 20% of the customers make 80% of the revenue or do the top 3 customers represent 80% of the revenue. They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5
pandodaily.com
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. November 29, 2012.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
Once you take money from the generalpublic youre more restricted in what you can do. [ In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem.
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