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What to look for when evaluating a start idea
1. 🤤 Product-Market Fit
2. 🌎 Market size
3. 💥 Why now
4. 👋 Distribution
5. 🤝 Team
6. 🛡️ Moat
7. ⚙️ Business model
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Lenny Rachitskyx.comThere are many ways for a business to fail, but for it to succeed, it needs to do just about everything right. That's why successful angels try to look objectively at as many factors as they can, and place their money on companies that can check all (or nearly all) the boxes. Each situation is different, but let me walk you through what we look for
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To gauge the venture-scaliness of an idea, investors look for:
- Large enough market: Are there enough people (or companies) spending enough money for you to be able to generate $100M in revenue per year—and eventually $1B in revenue a year? This usually means that the total addressable market (TAM) needs to be $5B or more. And the bigger the