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To Invest or Not to Invest: The VC Question about Digital Brands
1/ The golden era of DNVB is over. The times of inefficient growth enabled by first movers advantage & low ad-costs are over. Rising ad-costs will require brands to focus on operational excellence to maintain strong LTV:CAC ratios to sustain growth.
SKU’d Thoughts 41: What can we learn from consumer & retail startup exits in the 2010s?
Kofi Ampadumedium.com
There’s a broad spectrum of VCs and founders, the latter of whom possess differing levels of capability to maintain high growth and continually raise equity dollars at inflated valuations. For example, there are many companies who raise an angel/seed round, then a Series A, spend most of it on customer acquisition which flows right into FB and Goog... See more
Alex Danco • It’s Not Debt, It’s Better: an Interview with Harry Hurst of Pipe
The Kauffman Foundation study also illustrated that almost 86 percent of companies that succeeded in the long term did not take VC money.
Paul Jarvis • Company of One: Why Staying Small is the Next Big Thing for Business
