Bloom: Early-stage hardware startups should accept all available capital
Neal Bloom · "Will This Smart Home Automation Pitch Impress Venture Capitalists?" · Sep 6, 2023 · at 20:34
Neil Bloom reacts to Lotus founder Dhaval Patel accepting a $6 million valuation cap on The Pitch after graduating from Techstars.
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“You should take all the money you can right now as a hardware company.”
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