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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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Does raising money mean you should start scaling?

The Next Web

Howard Marks is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director of LA tech accelerator StartEngine. You’re learning what the metrics that matter are, what your funnel looks like, and what actions you want your prospects to take. It should never be the financing event that dictates whether to shift or not. What does that mean?

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