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Top Startup Mistake: Unrealistic Forecasts

Up and Running

True story: I sat down for lunch with a friend, a Sand Hill Drive venture capitalist. When I asked the standard “How are you,” he answered: “If I see another hockey stick forecast this week, I’m going to throw something at somebody.”. ” See Also: How to Forecast Sales. .” Growth is good.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Andressen Horowitz,ff Venture Capital,HOF Capital, Sequoia .

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Desirable growth from a startup: AirBnB case study

The Equity Kicker

AirBnB has delivered on the proverbial hockey stick growth that I imagine they had in their pitch deck back in 2010. For very young companies the forecasts should show this level of growth, whilst companies at Series A or later will have to have shown this level of growth in the past as well as in their forecasts.