Hyde Park Venture Partners

“So in the earliest stages of a startup, that's, can you get someone to pay for your product? And then it's, can you get more than one someone? So, Five, six, seven, 10, 15, a hundred customers, depending on your price point, to really prove, hey, you didn't ju…”

“The one wrong way that we're pretty pretty conscious of is we typically will not invest in a founding team that does not have a strong technical co-founder on it.”

“So our number one rule in, in startup sales, and when we evaluate a company, is that the sales cycle has to be much, much shorter than the funding cycle. And so, generally, for a company that, you know, is raising 18 to 24 months of runway, we don't like to se…”

“I think there's a way to attenuate the hype, which is by, you know, maintaining a personality of the executives that, that doesn't believe, believe their own press. In other words a company can have lots of hype about it. But if when the executives and CEOs an…”

“I would say probably about half of our investments are our first time founders.”

“So, eighteen-month runway is what we consider being the minimum that a startup should raise, regardless of stage whether it's a seed stage, or whether it's a series A or a series B,”

“We see that particularly in financings when companies that at one point were very high on the hype curve, and as I like to say, where hype is really ahead of performance where they need to suddenly raise more money, and they actually go in front of investors, …”

“The teams that we see being successful will test strategies, put a bound put a boundary on how long they're willing to spend on it without it being successful and then move on to the next thing. And that's measured in weeks and months in a successful startup, …”