Matching Revenue Seed Money Technology 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
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.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. But second, how do you back this up?
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Board Effect
JUNE 28, 2022
Start-up Grants or Seed Money Grants — Start-up grants are hard to come by, but they exist. Capacity-building grants give you the revenue to do more with what you already have and the projects you have already started. In-Kind Grants — Unlike all other types of grants, in-kind grants do not involve money at all.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An Andyet theres a lot of money at stake. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
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. What I'm not good at--or, rather, simply haven't done yet, is sit on a board for seven years helping a company go from $20mm in revenue to $100 million in revenue. I'm sticking to what I know.
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