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“The consensus seems to be a million dollars ARR, which equates to about 70, 75 K eight grand per month.”

“I completely am against investors owning the majority of early stage companies. I think it's the kiss of death for early stage companies.”

“As soon as you start generating revenue, then it gives investors a metric to use as a basis for valuation prior to generating revenue. You can just totally pull numbers out of your ass”

“Investors will walk all over you if you do not read this book.”

“The second you raise a serious seed round, it kind of changed the stakes for what's acceptable to everyone. And like, I made a commitment to the investors to get to a certain point. And I think Yeah. You kind of got to assume when you have these, you know, p…”

“And, you know, it's either fall or spring. In the summertime, don't even bother. Investors just are not writing checks.”

“Investors particularly and why we really pivoted is that investors are kind of tired of the mobile app parking solution.”

“Right. In order to return eight times it was investors received eight times that money.”

“Oftentimes investors don't understand when we get to the point where we're talking about our CAC and LTV ratios and things that I share with you. You know, there's strong arguments for investing, but then you've got longer payback periods than maybe an investo…”

“Investors are not a great market. I mean, we're very cheap. We don't like to pay for technology and it's a small market, so it's going to be very hard to build a big company if you're just targeting investors.”

“We've found that once we started getting on people's radars, we are not big enough For certain types of investors, and we're too big for others, so we, what we need less than money would be the team that the money brings, and we tend to, we're just, we don't r…”

“I think the story that an investor wants to be told is how this product is going to work in the world and how the product or the service that you're going to create works and will work.”

“Because of the peculiarity of a small deal and the nuances and the needs and demands of investors in that small deal market, the speed at which they work and the requirements they have, one or two potentials in my view is not enough to close with. Or it's not …”

“When a buyer or investor sees you as low status, they have difficulty listening to you, appreciating what it is you have, and they say things like, thank you for coming to present, We appreciate you coming in today.”

“Typically the investment that you raise is more of a multiple of your growth rate than you know, the actual revenue.”

“I think investors give you that impression, right? So they'll only give you a multiple on your reoccurring revenue. They only want it to be software related revenue.”

“Most CEOs and founders don't have time to properly nurture an investor like they would a sales lead.”

“In this most recent raise, we actually said no to a few investors because we didn't want to take what's, you know, what I'm calling dumb money. So we really wanted money that would get us into you know, partners equity partners that would basically help us sor…”

“They've not put another dollar in, not necessary, and we're going to get through it on our own.”

“So we speak to a hundred percent of investors that, that are on the platform. We don't really believe in the, in a self-serve model in part just because people don't really understand the asset class.”

“Yes. No, no investors.”

“Do, you know, five minutes of research about the person that I was emailing, try to figure out something about them, write a subject line that tied in what we were doing and something that I thought might interest them and then give them an interesting link to…”

“The investors have come in, you know, for, you know, four, over four million now.”

“A hundred plus investors that never knew about ServiceMax, being able to talk to them like we are with you, Nathan, and going into the guts is always a good thing.”

“By and far through 20, 20, 20, 21, right? This is going to be top line growth at that point, right? Like, you know, you talk to your board, you talk to investors, nobody's paying an enormous amount of attention to the cost of acquiring these customers.”

“First of all, stick with a niche. Niches will bring riches. Certainly, you know, I can you know, attest to that. If you have 200 customers in the same vertical, you're going to be more investable than actually being spread over lots of different verticals.”

“A lot of founders, when they're raising capital, they've never asked this question, and I think it's really important to know the money behind the money.”

“A lot of founders in China grew up being under a different, very different regime. Their mentality is that let me grow it and let me take control of it. The investors are just, you know, capital money. They're debt. They're not equity.”

“There's a lot of value in taking dollars from less sophisticated investors, because they might be a little bit more hands-off, have fewer opinions on how you run the business, and be a little less demanding day to day.”

“Product market fit. It's not even a framework, it's just a phrase. Some people like to call it a mental model. And I think, you know, it is a fraud mental model. I have not found a single entrepreneur who could look at the definition of product market fit and …”

“I don't want anymore to rely on investors because it creates the wrong behavior as you build your organization.”

“They don't have the rights. Those who came into the very high valuation do not have the rights to block.”

“I think they own like I think less than around 15 or seven, around 17%.”

“Why are the investors, right, very careful right now? Part of it is the distributions have been low. What that means is they haven't In the last 18 months, we turned a lot of money back to their investors, and so if they deploy more money, their investors are …”

“The benefits of being a profitable company is that your customers control the company, not your investors.”

“The best investors are not going to bother you. They're not going to help you. Nobody's going to help you. You're in by yourself, no matter who promises what to you, but the worst investors will actually give you better advice and really create more headache f…”