Customer IPO Operations 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. Operating Costs.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. What about in the public markets?
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Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. Of course, upcoming IPOs like Snapchat will bring some added excitement to the industry. They make their products cheaper and easier to use in order to appeal to more customers. Looking ahead to 2017.
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
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 18, 2012
Think about it – most entrepreneurs who manage to raise seed money or venture capital usually raise enough money for 12-18 months maximum. So at any given point you are likely operating with a maximum of 9 month’s cash. I didn’t want to disappoint my customers. Many times it’s less.
www.businessinsider.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
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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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