Wenger: Venture-Scale Communities Have to Be Motivated by Money
Erica Wenger · “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?” · Sep 13, 2023 · at 16:21
Erica Wenger (Park Rangers Capital) passes on Jim Brown's crowdsourced true crime startup Uncovered on The Pitch, explaining business model requirements for community-driven startups.
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“I think ultimately like that community has to be excited about money in some way. Otherwise I go to nonprofit. I go to working with government. I go to you being an amazing, brilliant content creator and having your own business as yourself versus like a venture scale business.”
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