Pmarchive · How much funding is too little? Too much?

Founders should decide how much to raise based on how much money they need to reach the next set of milestones. Startups have many layers of risk stacked on top of each other. Leo Polovets, managing partner at Susa Ventures, calls startups a “bundle of risk.”6 These risk layers could be as broad as “product risk,” but ideally the risk layers should

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The Venture Arrogance Score: A simple formula to evaluate a VC firm's business modelWhat percent of "total annual startup value creation" does that fund need to capture in order to generate their desired return.You just need five numbers to calculate it...1) Fund Size and Investment Window (this is simple...just take the size of their last fund -- ... See more

Companies with poor unit economics found themselves propelled by aggressive venture dollars (which themselves were propelled by a low-interest-rate environment). Those companies then turned those dollars into aggressive customer acquisition. Until recently, the market rewarded growth at all costs.