Left Lane Rejects Consumer Startups Entirely Reliant on New Customers
Jason Fiedler · America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Nov 8, 2024 · at 28:21
Jason Fiedler, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, explains his firm's investment committee criteria and how they evaluate customer retention in consumer businesses.
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“If you are entirely reliant on new customers for your revenue and you can't really go to sleep for a year and be a decent sized business that next year, It's just not going to work, and it's not going to hold up in RIC.”
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