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InfoChachkie
AUGUST 29, 2011
The data consistently confirms that: (i) venture capitalists are typically not adventuresome, and (ii) most startups lack the three intoxicating factors which cause venture capitalists to pull out their checkbooks. The Three Enthralling Factors Of Venture Funding. LOCATION: I Wish They All Could Be California Companies.
Tech.Co
JUNE 28, 2021
Think back to Uber — the idea that any car could be a taxi is still genuinely intoxicating. No matter how much people try to romanticize tech startups, with their impressive visions and (sometimes) innovative work cultures, they are still companies that exist to raise funds and make money.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 19, 2015
An example might be a business development conversation, a first customer meeting, the first candidate in a recruiting process, the first time you talk with a journalist at TechCrunch or the first meeting to consider your business strategy. In a way it’s intoxicating for those around them … initially.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2015
I don’t meet many rational invests (VCs or LPs) who believe this will last but of course nobody knows whether we have 6 weeks, 6 months or 2 years. On the other hand a certain amount of growth is fauxmentum caused by the over-funding of the startup markets and ebullient buyers of technology products (both businesses and consumers).
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
But “he didn’t have the budget to hire a developer until he had raised money!&#. He went out and found a developer and built a product. They are intoxicating, complex, insightful and tell a great story. He looked stunned. I said that he had been talking about doing this for too long. I said that was my point.
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