Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Management has the wrong pedigree, is geographically undesirable, competes in the wrong industry, and/or has a business model that lacks "scalability credibility" with the venture community. It is driven by the following: • The Best Metric for the Health of a Company is Cash Flow.

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David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

In VC, this means you identify companies that are not yet highly visible to the VC community; analyze them; persuade the company to sell you on the privilege of accepting your capital; then work to make them Momentum. You could argue that when they were [raising] oversubscribed [VC rounds], Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc.,

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Their own ego is also a factor – will a down round signal weakness? This is uncharted territory.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs.

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