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Most Investors Bite Only at Specific Startup Stages

Startup Professionals Musings

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment.

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How to Select the Right Investors for Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment.

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The right investors for the right stage

Gust

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. What do you tell somebody in that situation? Your highs are super high.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

I remember having a merger called off at the last minute and having a planning meeting at a pub to figure out how to run a bankruptcy process (luckily, we never had to do it). My SVP of Sales & Marketing quit 30 minutes before an important board meeting. What do you tell somebody in that situation? Your highs are super high.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Among the findings are: SPAC dilution amounts to roughly 50% of the cash ultimately delivered to the companies brought public.

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