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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

So here it is: for all the privacy invasions, security risks and and fundamental changes in our personal and domestic domains, this is what these companies* generate in revenue: Google – about $150 a year per person. Both income taxes and capital gains taxes. Facebook – about $80 a year per person.