Turner: Startup hype exceeding performance harms future fundraising
Guy Turner · 20 VC 056: The Life Cycle of Startups with Guy Turner, Partner @ Hyde Park Venture Partners · Jul 22, 2015 · at 11:31
Guy Turner, Partner at Hyde Park Venture Partners, discusses the downsides of excessive public hype for early-stage startups.
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“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, and investors are let down by the actual results, because the hype is so exceeded what's actually happened at the company.”
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