Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Hire more help than helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Hire more help than helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

And this is happening in mezzanine (pre-IPO) deals as well. Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. And post IPO deals, although these tend to correct more quickly. You feel it, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Hire more help than helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Hire more help than helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Hire more help than helpers. Switch your attention from product development to sales. Separate marketing from sales for further leverage. In the second stage, marketing and sales are highly specialized functions.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. Purpose Ventures’ deal structures are bespoke to each company.

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