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Your Market is Smaller Than You Think

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Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The subject of measuring market size comes up every few weeks in my interactions with startup founders, and one point I always raise is the difference between a top-down and bottom-up approach. But it worked for a lot of the dot com’s in the early 2000s.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.