Berkonomics
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.
VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Carta reports that 20% of the rounds in 2023 were down rounds, but I believe the actual number is much higher. For that and other reasons (like cash preservation) VCs moved to focus more on earlier stage, and many funds that typically invest in A started deploying more into seed rounds.
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Berkonomics
AUGUST 10, 2017
Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.
Berkonomics
MARCH 30, 2010
It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board.
Scalable Startup
FEBRUARY 1, 2013
In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Alexia Tsotsis: Are you seeing down rounds because the NASDAQ is down?
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