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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

You have to understand whether they’re likely to yield revenue growth in the near term OR whether you have access to cheap enough capital to fund your losses until your investments pay off. They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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To Follow On or Not to Follow On

This is going to be BIG.

There are a lot of people that artificially group together performance metrics for venture, and try to extrapolate successful stratagies from it. In the late 90's, it wasn't surprising that companies with no revenue that were funded at 100 million dollar valuations didn't survive. You can forget everything you've read everywhere else.